hand with the pursuit of truth. Investigation must be closely regulated and administered so as to avoid variability and erroneousness. There are however cases in which the human makes mistakes. As members of the community with the ability to explore these potential mistakes, we can bring about proper consequence. Serial is an example of ethical reporting based on a key theory of consequence reporting: justice. The entire podcast is centered around seeking the truth of what exactly happened on
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chained down because of conformity and fear not allowing them to take chances and do what they truly want to do. The matrix was a metaphor for the materialistic world (fake world). It was a world in which everything seemed glamorous and grand when the truth was that it had no substance, being it not real. People today rely on materialistic things for just about everything and in a way these things also enslave them. For example the average Joe, in order to feel like everyone else,
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Perception is the New Truth Growing up, we were all taught that we live in a world which is in black and white, where there is a clear evil and a clear good. Unfortunately, this is not true; and the distinction between what is the truth and what is false is sometimes very vague. Thus, more often than not, I find myself struggling to distinguish what is the truth and what is not, and I’m often stuck in an unclear grey area where it could be either one; or it could depend upon the person’s perspective
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Introduction The average American household has about three television sets per household and the average American watches about five hours of television each day. Television has a very powerful influence in developing our value systems and shaping the behavior of both children and adults. The University of Twente states: “Cultivation theory in its most basic form, suggests that television is responsible for shaping, or ‘cultivating’ viewers’ conceptions of social reality. The combined effect of
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Descartes was among the first people to start a new philosophical system which showcased a new freshness and innovativeness. This new system incorporated doubt at its center. In order to destroy his entire old system of beliefs, Descartes created doubt about as many of his previous beliefs as possible. Descartes wanted to find foundations on which he could build a new system of beliefs. His goal was to actively try to doubt everything in order to find something that he cannot doubt—something that
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are searching for” (Sophocles 22). In their dialogue, the two battle with their words, throwing slanders at each other. This interaction discloses information about Oedipus’ character, showing that he is prideful, quick to anger, and blind to the truth even though it is what he seeks to find. In my Open Mind Diagram, I have an image of a character plugging his ears and an image of a monkey covering his eyes. These two images represent how Oedipus is blind to the evil in which he stands, and how Oedipus
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Q1. Aren’t you strongly inclined to think, just like Descartes by the fire, that you can’t deny that you are now reading this book, which is “right there” in your hands? Should you doubt it anyway? Why? In a way I am inclined to think like Descartes because he is right I can’t deny this book right in front of me or even the computer I’m typing on now. No I should not have any doubts because I use my computer everyday so I know I have one and that it’s here right in front of me. Q2. What do you
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The Spirit Catches You and Fall Down discusses many important topics, such as cultural humility and the consequences of miscommunication. The following is a brief response to some of the key topics discussed in the book (Fadiman, 1997). Explanatory Model of Illness: Definition of the Explanatory Model of Illness: An explanatory model of illness is a model that focuses on how the patient understands his or her illness and the factors that are involved. Two Examples of the Explanatory Model of Illness
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As stated previously, sense experience is a poor foundation for knowledge because experience of the particulars are highly variable, which leads to possibly true yet mistaken knowledge and lacks the completeness of the forms. Sense experience also fails to give understanding for things which exist in the intelligible world, and only resembles in part reality of the world of forms. It is by the use of reason to gain the understanding of the forms, and the relationships amongst the forms themselves
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informing the reader that his observations include personal biases; the descriptions are not absolute truth coming from an omniscient narrator but rather are filtered through the lens of a character in the story. Second, the narrator is acknowledging that the descriptions of the pilgrims are based on his brief dealings with them at the beginning of the journey, so while they may accurately reflect the truth of the situation, they may also be flawed. By acknowledging that his descriptions may be subject
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