Logic reading
wow, that was a long read. but it was definetly jam-packed with a lot of information. i want to start off by commenting on the opening quote; "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln" I love this quote. i've heard it before and i think its awesome.
After reading through the article i came to the conclusion that thought does not have law. "In logic there is no such thing as a "valid premise" or a "true argument." Sometimes we do say that a conclusion is valid; then we mean that the conclusion follows validly from the premises." i believe this statement is saying that in thought (logic) there is no rite or wrong answer, and if something does not have a right or wrong answer then therefore it can not have laws to follow. if there WERE laws to follow then there would be a wrong answer (if it broke a law) and a rite answer (if it followed the law). i would also like to comment on the "As individuals we are up against an enormous external power pounding on our doors daily. Billions of dollars are spent on commercial and political advertising every year." I completely agree wtih this statement, and it has been discussed in my tutorial group as well. i don't think that we will ever get away from all the advertisement that we come in contact with everyday constantly. I think that it will just get worse.
posted by Shaylene @ 10:42 p.m.
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Shaylene, I think you are absolutely right in terms of your feelings on advertising; it is deffinatly going to get much worse. We are providing mainstream companies with more mediums to advertise to us and not even realize it. There is now advertising everywhere we go and on everything we use from cell phones, to bus stations, to computers to in churches and hospitals. Not only is advertising becoming more prolific its effects are becoming more powerful, advertisers seem to be using more powerful rhetoric to influence our purchasing patterns. So, to avoid this it would make sense that we would have to imply a stronger logic to counteract these advertisers, good topic.
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