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Uses of logic in daily life

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After, one semester trying to understand what is logic about and how it works, finally, I understood that Logic is always present in our life. The logic used to explain miracles of everyday life, thinking logically helps man to question the functioning of everything around us, the logic used to argue and is somehow a thought an idea that influences us for an action we do in our daily lives. Used to think properly about what is and what happens in reality, to act in a reasonable manner at all times of our lives. This means that in our thinking and reality must be a consistency so that we can perform our daily activities in a thoughtful way and rope. We used to solve problems that happen to us daily as when we go to work or school; also to seek. The logic helps me to think coherently and to differentiate between truth and validity. As the mathematical are always valid, there is no possibility that might contradict, as 2 + 2 equals 4 cannot be five. Moreover, he logic helps me to have a g...
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Scientific Inquiry

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In this post i hope to explain what is scientific methods and what are the steps we need to follow to an scientific inquiry. Science is a process of thinking critically, using observations, inferring, comparing, contrasting and looking for cause and effect. There are several skills you must learn when you are setting out to study something in a scientific way. Those skills are 1. Observing 2. Analyzing 3. Inferring 4. Types of variables 5. Predicting 6. Investigating 7. Hypothesizing 8. Organizing Data 9. Interpreting data 10. Experiment compare to surveys 11. Making conclusion 12. Communicating your findings Scientific inquiry mean ask meaningful questions and use scientific methods to find answer. There are some steps to follow to an scientific method: 1st one is make an observation  2nd one is state a hypothesis 3rd one is plan and conduct an experiment 4th one is analyzing data 5th one is Draw conclusion.
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Empiricism

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Empiricism , in philosophy , the view that all concepts originate in experience, that all concepts are about or applicable to things that can be experienced, or that all rationally acceptable beliefs or propositions are justifiable or knowable only through experience. This broad definition  accords with the derivation of the term  empiricism  from the ancient Greek word  empeiria , “experience.” Concepts are said to be “a posteriori” (Latin: “from the latter”) if they can be applied only on the basis of experience, and they are called “a priori” (“from the former”) if they can be applied independently of experience. Belief or propositions are said to be a posteriori if they are knowable only on the basis of experience and a priori if they are knowable independently of experience ( see  a posteriori   knowledge). Thus, according to the second and third definitions of empiricism above, empiricism is the view that all concepts, or all rationally acceptable bel...
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Sexism and Feminism

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A feminist study of gender in society needs concepts to  differentiate  and analyze social inequalities between girls and boys and between women and men that do not reduce differences to the notion of biology as destiny. The concept of sexism explains that  prejudice  and discrimination based on sex or gender, not biological inferiority, are the social barriers to women’s and girls’ success in various arenas. To overcome  patriarchy  in society is, then, to dismantle sexism in society. The study of sexism has suggested that the solution to gender inequity is in changing sexist  culture  and institutions. The disentanglement of gender (and thus gender roles and gender identities) from biological sex was an accomplishment in large part of feminism, which claimed that one’s sex does not predict anything about one’s ability, intelligence, or personality. Extracting social behaviour from   biological determinism  allowed greater freedom for w...
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Race and Racism

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Race and Racism Race is a social construct where classification of  Group membership has been decided by people within particular social system at particular historical moments. Race is defined as  A system of  Social structures that provides or denies access , safety , resources and power based on  Race categories and produces And reproduces race-based Inequities. It is not a biological fact . It affects us individually , Is built into our institutions And is woven into the fabric of our culture .  Though racism is a system, it has many manifestations. Racism manifests in three ways . 1.institutional 2.interpersonal 3.internalized Race is a social construct where classification of  Group membership has been decided by people within particular social system at particular historical moments. Race is defined as  A system of  Social structures that provides or denies access , safety , resources and power based on  Race categories and produces An...
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Testimony

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Testimony common overviews Introduction In the field of philosophy, testimony is defined as the intentional transfer of a belief from one person to another. The transfer can be verbal, written, or signaled in some way. Issues concerning the epistemology of testimony have become increasingly discussed in contemporary philosophy, with the debate widening out from epistemology to other fields such as philosophy of mind, action theory, and philosophy of language. General Overviews Adler 2012  and  Green 2008  both offer excellent and in-depth introductions to the topic, with the added advantage that both of these articles are freely available online. For more involved overviews of the topic, in both cases written by a leading figure in the literature, see  Fricker 2004  and  Lackey 2010 . The latter includes an extensive bibliography. See  Lackey 2006b  for a sophisticated critical discussion of the recent literature on the epistemology of testimony t...
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Illusion

  Illusion , a misrepresentation of a “real” sensory  stimulus —that is, an interpretation that contradicts objective “reality” as defined by general agreement. For example, a child who  perceives  tree branches at night as if they are goblins may be said to be having an  illusion . An illusion is distinguished from a  hallucination , an experience that seems to originate without an external source of stimulation. Neither experience is necessarily a sign of psychiatric disturbance, and both are regularly and consistently reported by virtually everyone. The nature of illusions Illusions  are special perceptual experiences in which information arising from “real” external stimuli leads to an incorrect  perception , or false impression, of the object or event from which the stimulation comes. Some of these false impressions may arise from factors beyond an individual’s control (such as the characteristic behaviour of  light  waves that make...
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