According to The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence by Robert Bryce, it is neither possible nor desirable for the US to become independent of foreign energy. Bryce states, “The inane obsession with the idea of energy independence is preventing the US from having an honest and effective discussion about the energy challenges it now faces.” (203). This comment by Bryce means that Americans have become so ignorant of reality that they have set an unattainable goal. The issue of energy independence needs to be looked at honestly and realistically. Bryce mainly supports this argument by saying, “If the
A second challenge of Hume is that we are able to possibly imagine that something can cause itself into existence. This challenge severely weaken's Aquinas argument from cause as it suggests that in fact there is no need for a fist cause as regress of cause and effect is disrupted. Anscombe's response to Hume is, in "When there is a beginning there must be a cause: Hume's argument exposed," that it may be possible to imagine this being the case but it is illogical to suppose that this is the case as it is a "contradiction to absurdity" to decide that "it could be" therefore "it is." It is similar to imagine that a magician may be able to pull a rabbit out of a hat without any prior knowledge of its existence but to suppose it is the case that this has happened is illogical. However modern theoretical and quantum physicists have begun to produce evidence that it is perhaps evident that energy has the ability to come into existence of its own accord which would
Balancing the need to expose wrong-doing with the need to protect “whistleblowers” requires wisdom. Protection is not a basic right. Right to feel protected as one does one's work. (Incorrect) No one can guarantee—or is responsible—for how we feel. We are responsible for noticing and monitoring our own emotions.
There are many contradictions in Hume, but there is little agreement on what these contradictions show about Hume's thought in general. The major contradiction Hume makes is how he says that we have to experience something before we can think about it. If that was true, how can one think of a ‘golden mountain’ even though they have never seen one? All of our ideas come from observation, cannot be true. Hume would argue that a ‘golden mountain’ would be a complex idea.
‘Music is the key to understanding the main characters in Maestro.’ Discuss. Music is an important part of understanding the main characters in Maestro; Music allows the reader to obtain an insight of the past Herr Keller experiences and leads into Paul Crabbe from the growth of innocence of childhood to a more realistic perception of the bigger world. A recurring symbol in Maestro is the piano, which displays the symbolic meaning of music through-out the Novella. Music brings happiness and joy to characters in Maestro, but in contrast provokes negativity upon composers that associate characters with their past. This is the reason it is evident with Herr Keller the rejection of types of music and composers in the text.
Watson argued that results based on anything other than visual observation could not possibly be accurate, and therefore could not be replicated in the future (Goodwin, 2007). He argued that the idea of perception was purely subjective, and only his brand of observable data could be relied on for future reference. Watson was a man of unshakable conviction. In addition, some of his experiments were looked upon unfavorably; but his brand of behaviorism was one that helped build a strong foundation for behavioral psychology. According to Watson, no research could be considered valid if the introspective method of validating behavior was used.
A special case of purposive sampling is deviant case sampling. It is especially used by qualitative researchers to focus on cases that are peculiar or unusual, typically in the sense that the cases highlight notable outcomes, failures or successes. Deviant case sampling is useful because they often provide significant insight into a particular phenomenon, or including what
“What we were unprepared for was the intensity of the change and the speed at which it happen,” Zimbardo says” (161) Situation and environment are directly related to the behavior of an individual. I do agree in part with Gladwell. A person’s behavior is too complex for anybody to be able to predict jus by using environment and situation. Each person is a whole new universe. Therefore it is impossible to generalize the criminal mind to the environment to which is exposed, or the situation at
Locke tentatively takes “innate principles” to be the very primitive notions or characters that are engraved into the mind from the very beginning of the existence of the soul and therefore refers to that which can be considered inherent to the soul (II.2.1). In arguing against nativism, Locke describes why five major principles of nativism is fallacious, starting with universal assent. He rejects universal assent because some principles, scientific or mathematic, seems to be necessarily true like that of the law of identity or law of contradiction, but yet be unknown by children and idiots who are incapable of consenting (I.2.3). Moreover, Locke finds it absurd that some claim that the mind, for example of the children, idiots or anyone else, could be simply “unaware” of a notion since this allows all supposedly unaware notions to be innate (I.2.5). The second principle is
However an indirect realist would argue that we should reject direct realism because there are serious explanatory problems with it, which only indirect realism can overcome. Specifically the argument from illusion is often considered a good reason to abandon direct realism. The argument from illusion runs as follows: the direct realist argues that the objects of our perceptions are the real contents of the world, however it is a well known fact that our perceptions can be inaccurate or completely illusory, for example a straight stick may appear bent when placed in water, or we may suffer from hallucinations that have no basis in reality whatsoever. Since the object of these perceptions is clearly not part of the objectively real world direct realism contradicts our experience and should be discarded. Of course other people have attempted to answer this objection before me, but here is my take on it.