He taught them about philosophy, mathematics, religion, music and many other things. The Pythagoreans took up his work because Pythagoras was very smart and had many revolutionary ideas. The spiral of Theodorus is a spiral created with continuous right triangles. Theodorus was a Greek mathematician, who is most known for the spiral of Theodorus. The spiral of Theodorus was created using the Pythagorean theorem.
Philosophers ask questions about knowledge like, what is knowledge, how do we acquire knowledge, what do we really know, these questions fall into the category of epistemology. 4. Why is logic important in philosophy? Logic means analyzing the structure of arguments to determine whether they are valid. Logic is important, because it can help you determine the validity of syllogisms and other arguments.
The most recent discussions in the field of philosophy of science on scientific explanation began in the 1940s with Hempel’s deductive-nomological model (D-N model). According to Hempel the following four adequacy conditions must met in order to qualify as a D-N explanation: 1. The explanation must be a valid deductive argument, with the thing to be explained as its conclusion. 2. The explanans must contain at least one general law that is required for the conclusion.
According to him, there must be as much reality or perfection in the cause of anything as in the effect. Moreover, he believed that the notion of God represents something so ideal that he could not have been the cause of this idea. I believe that Descartes arguments are not really such convincing because of the following reasons which I would like to point out. We may all come to this point and consider that we all exist; however, it’s not completely true because Descartes had an idea of the perfect being in his mind, but I surely don't have such an idea. Now what am I to believe?
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.
This mirrors a libertarian (in John Locke’s view) as he/she believes that he can do as he chooses, yet in reality he/she cannot. A strength of such a view to many is that it is compatible with physical laws which show the course of particular matter’s existence to be determined. However, recent quantum physics has discovered that even the most basic laws of physics are in fact probabilistic, thus physical laws in fact acts as evidence against hard determinism and
These are just a few of the credible scientists Laurence Moran utilizes in his essay in order to prove that evolution is indeed a fact. Not once does the author claim that his beliefs are without a doubt 100 percent fact. He actually notes that nothing in science can be 100 percent fact, but that with all the evidence pointing to evolution as the means of how we all came to be it is definitely 99.99999999 percent fact. Moran does not once say that persons believing otherwise are stupid or any other derogatory
Critically assess two arguments in support of widespread local skepticism. Skepticism may at first seem like a fruitless field of study, for how can the study of a topic which claims knowledge is impossible provide any greater insight into the philosophical realm as any conclusions themselves are knowledge. It could be said this is true yet discounting this view totally would be ignorant due to the arguments that have been put forth in its favour over its time in existence. Local as opposed to global skepticism differs in that a local skeptic does not believe all knowledge is impossible but that certain kinds of knowledge such as about time, the external world, other minds and of empirical generalisations. The Spanish philosopher Miguel De Unamuno said “The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.” On this basis it could be said that the skepticism is the deepest of all the philosophical areas of study as no true conclusion can be drawn fully meaning it will be explored more with time.
Graffin claims that he is not a fundamentalist. He even goes as far to accuse some of his fellow atheists of having a fundamentalist view towards their disbelief- the same view that they disapprove of in religions. Graffin claims that faith is not restricted to religion. Graffin’s naturalist worldview stresses his faith in creativity, individualism, and interpersonal relationships. He asserts that no one worldview contains all of the answers to life- not his naturalist view or natural selection’s Darwinism.
INTRODUCTION The question of the existence of God has been a perennial debatable issue in the history of Philosophy especially in the medieval era. It remains a hard fact for one to conceive of a being that causes every other being to exist without being caused by another to exist. In the modern era, Descartes (1596-1650), a French Philosopher, mathematician and a renowned thinker whose outstanding and courageous philosophical position signaled the end of medieval philosophy, and the emergence of modern philosophy, launches an argument on the existence of God, which demonstrates to a plausible extent that the truths of the existence of God are not just logically necessary but can be proved rationally. Following the logical development of one of his major works known as “Meditations on First Philosophy”, he proves the existence of God in the Third Meditation, and while discussing the essences of material things in the Fifth Meditation, he gives wider expression of the argument in an ontological dimension. An argument, which by extension is referred to as “Ontological Argument”.