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David Sachs and the Fallacy of Justice, 2006.
This paper discusses justice through analysis of the article "A Fallacy in Plato's Republic" by David Sachs.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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In this article, the writer discusses David Sachs' article "A Fallacy in Plato's Republic". The writer shows Sachs' belief that Plato's argument in terms of his discussion of justice is radically flawed due to the fallacy of irrelevance. Further, the writer points out that Sachs argues that Plato fails to make a connection between the two types of justice discussed in the 'Republic'.
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"David Sachs, in his article "A Fallacy in Plato's Republic", contends that Plato's argument in terms of his discussion of justice - one of the key elements of the Republic - is radically flawed due to the fallacy of irrelevance. By this, Sachs argues that Plato fails to make a connection between the two types of justice discussed in the Republic and that, instead of proving that justice is valuable in itself he argues only that it is valuable in its effects."
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A Reading of David Armstrong and David Lewis, 2002.
Comparison and contrast of the points of view of David Armstrong and David Lewis regarding the question of what exactly is the mind.
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This essay compares and contrasts the points of view of Armstrong and Lewis on the centuries-old debate regarding the question of what exactly is the mind, and the degree to which mental states are identical with brain states.
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"Prophets In The Dark" ( David Kearns and David Nadler ), 1995.
Reviews this work by Xerox Corporation's CEO on the firm's successful transformation in the 1980s.
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"Introduction
During the 1980s, much of American business focused on improving its quality process in order to better compete with the Japanese. Great attention was paid to issues such as just in time inventory, total quality management and quality circles, and the American quality expert Deming was both hailed and vilified in the press for having introduced fundamental quality concepts to the Japanese some years before. David Kearns was CEO of Xerox Corporation during the 1982 to 1990 period, a time when the company whose name is synonymous with photocopiers faced intense competition not only from American competitors such as IBM and Kodak, but also from the Japanese. During the 1980s, the company undertook a rigorous quality program designed to transform the way the company did business. At the beginning of the 1990s, the ..."
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Leone Nelly Sachs, 2002.
An analysis of Leone Nelly Sachs, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
1,845 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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The following paper examines the life and history of Leone Nelly Sachs, a poet, author and playwright in the 1900's and winner of the Nobel Peace for literature with the Israeli novelist and short story writer S.Y. Agnon. The writer discusses Sachs' experiences in the second world war, where she was sent to concentration camps and lost all her family. This paper discusses her poems, plays and dramatic fragments published in post-war years as a "mute outcry" against the Holocaust.
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"Nelly Sachs was almost fifty years old when she reached Sweden. She shared a two-bedroom apartment with her mother on the third floor of a building. Nelly Sachs was now in a country where she did not know the language, tied to the home by the need to look after her old, weak mother. This meant that letter-writing was often her only contact with the outside world; at first with Swedish intellectuals who broke the usual reserved attitude and made personal efforts in connection with the refugees. Sachs was able to make a modest living supporting herself and her mother while in exile in Sweden by translating the works of Swedish poets Gunnar Ekel?f, Erik Lindegren and Johannes Edfelt into German. She eventually published several successful volumes of her translations. She also became a Swedish citizen."
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Hasty Generalization Fallacy, 2005.
This paper examines the type of inductive untruth called the hasty generalization fallacy.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper studies the concept of inductive fallacies and focuses on the hasty generalization fallacy, which makes assumptions about a population based on a very small sampling of perhaps one or two cases. The paper looks at the example of "goths" in mainstream media and how they have been assumed to be violent and antisocial based on the activities of only three people.
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"From time to time, everyone makes assumptions about people and places without getting all the information. A friend might go to a restaurant and have bad experience of some kind and then tell everyone not to go there because the food is terrible or the waiter staff is rude. In the study of logic, these assumptions are called hasty generalization fallacies, which is a form of an inductive fallacy. Many of these generalizations are harmless, as long as you're not the owner of that restaurant, but there are some important ways that this type of fallacy can be extremely dangerous and harmful to large numbers of people. Bigotry is often a result of a combination of stereotyping and hasty generalization fallacies, whether it's against people of particular genders, races, or even fashion statements."
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Tay-Sachs Disease, 2005.
A clinical presentation of Tay Sachs Disease.
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This is a detail oriented clinical presentation of Tay-Sachs disease that focuses on the disease histology, clinical presentation, laboratory findings and finally prognosis. There is an introduction that goes into the disease itself from a historical standpoint and from an epidemiologic standpoint. The basic disease classification is discussed as are the disease specifics, including the four categories.
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"Tay Sachs Disease is a Hex A deficiency genetic disorder that predominantly affects jewish individuals of eastern european extraction (Ashkenzai), French-Canadians and those of Irish ancestry; although these later two groups are not as strongly focused on in the literature. While Frye tells us that the disorder was described over 100 years ago, the gene responsible for Tay-Sachs disease enzyme deficiency was identified in 1969. Tay-Sachs is an autosomal recessive, lysosomal storage disorder grouped within the G[M2] ganglioside disorders. This paper will provide four profiles of the disease: histology, clinical picture, laboratory findings/results and finally will offer a prognosis. Operationally, we need to look to Scheinfeld to understand the disorder. According to Scheinfeld, a lysosome is a "subcellular organelle responsible for the physiologic turnover of cell constituents containing catabolic enzymes requiring a low optimum pH..."
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Ethical Intuitionism and "Naturalistic Fallacy", 2002.
Explains the philosophical term ethical intuitionism and philosopher G.E. Moore's theory of "naturalistic fallacy".
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Ethical Intuitionists philosophers espouse a meta-ethical theory that holds that some value terms, such as good, are indefinable and unanalyzable. This paper explores the views of philosopher G. E. Moore on ethical intuitionism in his work "Principia Ethica" and for his role in the formation of the ?Naturalistic Fallacy? - where natural properties and only natural properties are attributed to what constitutes the value of good.
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"When many of us speak of intuition, we seem to view it as a process by which we attain an instant apprehension of truth. But Moore cautions us differently and points out that cognitions obtained via intuition are as susceptible to error as cognitions obtained empirically or experimentally. If they are, and there is much evidence to agree with him, doesn?t this suggest that intuition is ?obtained? via some deductive or reasoning or empirical process? What, then, is happening when two people disagree about the nature of good? How can we decide who is right and who is wrong? Must we simply abandon our efforts to find a resolution? That both sides could be right Moore rules out, since he views good as an objective quality. But are so many of us so ill-equipped that only some of us can intuit the true nature of good? Surely not; surely the problem lies with the theory."
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'Love is a Fallacy' by Max Shulman, 2005.
A literary analysis of the short story 'Love is a Fallacy' by Max Shulman.
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In this paper, the clever finality of this story which Shulman imparts on the narrator is that Polly has actually been trained well enough to actually refute the very man trying to impose his authority over her. According to this paper, all of the logic that has been taught to her is now used against the narrator, as Polly logically breaks down his sexism through the logic she has come to learn.
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"In this literary study the short story "Love is a Fallacy" by Max Shulman will be analyzed. By critically pointing out the sexist nature of the narrator of the tale, Shulman uses arguments based on logic. However, the narrator's inability to realize his own hypocrisy in gaining a "trophy wife" through treachery and guise devolves his misogynist actions and behaviors. In essence, "Love is a Fallacy" uses hypocrisy, sexism and logic to create a devolving tale of a college student with an inferior intellect. The beginning of Shulman's story reflects an arrogant young college student who thinks that he is superior to his roommate, Petey Bellows. The first part of the story revolves around the narrator's inability to see how Petey is easily susceptible to 'fads' on campus. Shulman writes: A nice enough fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs."
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Goldman Sachs, 2002.
An overview of the initial public offering and financial strategy of Goldman Sachs.
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This paper looks at this company and its IPO and related issues to this IPO such as: business overview, use of proceeds, industry trends, risk factors, stock performance, alternatives to the IPO, and the firm's prospects. This paper includes tables and an appendix.
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Adam Smith, Ronald Reagan and Jeffrey Sachs, 1995.
This paper describes and compares economic theories of capitalists from 1770s (Smith), 1980s (Reagan) and 1990s (Sachs): Supply and demand, policy, growth, role of government, recession, inflation, deficits and reform.
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"This research draws comparisons with the economic theories of Adam Smith in the 1770s, the economic policies followed during the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, and the economic prescriptions advocated by Jeffrey Sachs in the 1990s. The emphasis in this research is on trade and economic activity.
In the formulation of economic theory, Adam Smith was principally concerned with the factors which led to increased wealth in an economy. Smith (1776, pp. 131-136) contended that the cost of labor provided the basis for the determination of the value of a commodity. Smith further contended that it was the relative expenditure of labor that mattered. Smith also contended, however, that the factors of supply and demand also affected the actual price levels (inflation) of commodities in the ... "
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Logical Fallacy and Critical Thinking, 2004.
A look at the relationship between logical fallacies, critical thinking and decision-making.
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This paper reviews relationships between logical fallacies, critical thinking, and decision-making. The paper also identifies three logical fallacies and looks at how critical thinking is applied to the decision-making process with regard to each fallacy.
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"In this paper three logical fallacies are defined. The significance of each logical fallacy to the process of critical thinking is explained and the general application of critical thinking to decision-making with respect to each logical fallacy is discussed. A logical fallacy is an argument that is defective because of faulty reasoning. Essentially, a logical fallacy occurs when one draws a conclusion from statements that do not in fact support the conclusion. The presence of a logical fallacy does not necessarily..."
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Fallacy and Critical Thinking, 2005.
Defines three common logical fallacies and examines their significance to critical thinking.
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This paper examines three logical fallacies namely: Begging the Question, Hasty Generalization and Appealing to Emotion. It presents examples of such fallacies in contemporary society and ties them into the concept of critical thinking.
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"The Appeal to Emotion fallacy is committed when someone manipulates peoples' emotions in order to get them to accept a claim as being true (Labossiere, 1995). This is very common in politics and it serves as the basis for a large portion of modern advertising. Most political speeches are aimed at stirring and steering feelings in people to get them to vote or act a certain way. In the case of advertising, the commercials are aimed at evoking emotions that will influence people to buy specific products."
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The Limits of Mind: On the Fallacy of the Design Argument, 2008.
This paper critiques the design argument based on arguments from William Paley's "The Watch and the Watchmaker" and David Hume's "A Critique of the Design Argument".
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This essay critiques the design argument, as explained in both William Paley's "The Watch and the Watchmaker" and in David Hume's "A Critique of the Design Argument". This paper also explains the features of the design argument and evaluates the argument in order to critique it. The author follows Hume in suggesting that the design argument is ultimately a failure due to the massive egocentricity inherent in assuming that God can be understood through an analogy to the human mind.
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"The reason I have been rather pedantic in deconstructing Paley's analogy is twofold. Firstly, we have the problem of Darwin's theory of evolution. That is to say, the theory that explains that the mechanism or process that makes things fit is intrinsic to the system of nature itself. If you wish, Darwin's theory of evolution is akin to showing that the watch really does produce the watch and is the only creator thereof. Whether Darwin believed that God made it so or not is irrelevant--the point is that God can be taken out of evolution and the underlying principle of nature shown to be merely survival, and the survival of those traits which help us survive. Naturally, this system creates something which looks like it has been designed--because we have adapted to our environments, not because we have been created alongside our environments as a system always already in perfect harmony. Again, I am not concerned to argue that this is so--but this is merely an instance of the observer coming upon the watch and having no knowledge of the manufacturing processes involved in the production of mechanical objects, assumes that this watch is something which just exists, with no thought or evidence of processes that were involved in making it, because his lack of understanding of the need for those processes means he doesn't recognize them. Paley's argument is that we know something has been designed, because we recognize that the process by which it is constructed is one that requires thought--by I am suggesting that, when it comes to nature, we cannot know what the process is that is required to construct it, and therefore we cannot arrive at any certain deduction as to its having been designed by the method Paley describes. In fact, as I have shown, the only theory that describes the process (of evolution and survival) that creates, or recreates, nature is one that does not need to rely on design--at least not in any sense which we can understand, which brings me to my second criticism of Paley's analogy."
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Fallacy Analysis, 2005.
Logical fallacies are analyzes with regard to the Iraq war and same-sex marriages.
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An analysis of three examples of logical fallacies as applied to comments on the record of public discourse regarding the Iraq war and same-sex marriage.
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"The modern public political discourse provides ample examples of logical fallacies that have significance for the fate of critical thinking not to say the fate of the republic . These examples are the subject of this research "
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The Fallacy of the American Dream, 2003.
A look at the sociological make-up of the American society and how the American Dream is a false depiction.
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Picks apart the flaws in the American Dream, namely, that anyone born into poverty, invariably, can transcend their station in life by dint of hard work, persistence, initiative, and daring. The paper starts off talking about the American Dream's fallacies that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed, the predetermination of the socioeconomic background, race, gender, and the statistical failure of minorities.
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"The ideal of the American Dream, anyone "born into poverty, invariably can transcend their station in life by dint of hard work, persistence, initiative, and daring", promises hope for the poor(foot note). By exploiting stories that glorify the ability of the underprivileged to rise up from rags to riches, the media gives an empty hope and a false sense of reality to the public. By promoting the message, "each of us is judged solely on her or his own merits, we each have a fair opportunity to develop those merits; and ultimately, merit will win out," we only further the problem of unrealistic expectation(foot note). Faith in this message slows society's progress toward greater equality, providing the illusory image of a country where one's starting place does not have to determine where he finishes."
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