obviously has led many to engage in religious and cultural perspective to ascertain what their beliefs would be regarding what truth is. Philosophically, what truth is has various meaning and perspective to those who propounded different theories such as the coherence theory, the pragmatist theory, and the correspondence theory. This paper will, therefore, explore the main features of the correspondence theory and considers its major strengths, as well as its weaknesses. We furthermore, discuss what
Ethical Theory Introduction The word ‘ethics’ derives from the Greek word ethos i.e. a custom, habit or disposition. Ethics offer a system of moral principles that affect how people make decisions and live their lives. The origin of ethics may be based in religions, philosophies and/or cultures. Ethical principles provide a moral map for examining ethical dilemmas surrounding people (BBC). The study of investigating the origins and meanings of ethical principles is known as metaethics. Given the
three criteria of being, justified, true, and believed. As this essay will explore, Edmund L. Gettier attempted to dismantle this theory of knowledge by arguing that it is possible to have a justified true belief without having knowledge. Following an evaluation of this, the integrity of Gettier’s assumption made in his argument will be explored, concerning his belief as to what the word justified means in this context. Furthermore, Gettier’s assumption can then be challenged by an alternate premise
an activity that relieves anxiety and stress. Research has found that such needs were less common among non-problem-gamblers and more common among problem gamblers. Self-determination theory This theory was originally used to examine various behavioural motivations such as work, leisure, and education. The theory suggests that gambling satisfies the gambler’s needs on intrinsic, extrinsic and amotivation levels. Intrinsic motives include fun, excitement, learning knowledge, and accomplishing something
its negatiVE, ¬X, are true. Assuming the fairly uncontroversial view that falsity just is the truth of negation, it can be assumed that dialetheia is a sentence which is both true and false. Dialetheism is the view that some statements can be both true and false simultaneously. More precisely, it is the belief that there can be a true statement whose negation is also true. Such statements are called "true contradictions", dialetheia, or nondualisms. Dialetheism is not a system of formal
feel better daily. One may often consider true love, but may not have considered false love. To understand this properly, one needs to open themselves up to love. What makes it true and false? One can speculate indefinitely and get many opinions as to what constitutes true love, but the words are not enough to describe what love truly is. It is very hard to understand love but the following paragraph will discuss false love in a bit more depth. Some people hope to find someone with whom they can
Manny Pineyro Philosophy of Mind Paper 1 Folk psychology refers to our capacities for explaining and predicating the behavior of others by attributing mental states to them. We assume that other people have mental states such as beliefs, desires and so on. Attributing these mental states to others is a part of what allows us to understand them and to engage with them effectively. Basically folk psychology is the central part of our capacity for social cognition and our capacity for dealing with
Examples of the objective list theory include that of moral goodness and any type of actions that is justified for any reason. The desire satisfaction theory, on the other hand, says if something satisfies your desires, then it is good for you. If something is good for you, it satisfies your desires. I disagree with this theory of human well-being because we don’t always enjoy things that we desire. The desire satisfaction theory might argue that we have the deep desire to be healthy
Education is always considered as the backbone of any society. It contributes significantly in the development of any country at all levels including business, health, law, agriculture, and services, etc. Most of the developed countries put education in the priority when it comes to rank the sectors that help efficiently the progression of the country. The historical evidence is there for us to see what happens when schools are closed or converted from places of education to places for indoctrination
agreed by each committee members as the well-deserved recipients. Therefore, given a chance to choose as one of the Nobel Committee member, I would definitely suggest Leon Festinger who has founded the social comparison theory as one of the most deserving recipient. Social comparison theory explains that we learn about our own abilities and attitudes by comparing ourselves to other people. When experiencing uncertainty to evaluate our own abilities, we tend to compare ourselves with other people to get