Whats is Needed

So I read some of Chapter 15 of Critical Thinking by Richard L. Epstein and from what I read, I thought part 8 was very important.

Part 8 was about the criteria for cause and effect. They have a table about what was the necessary criteria for cause and effect. These included:

- The cause is true
- The effect is true
- The cause precedes the effect
- Impossible for cause to be true and effect to be false
- The Cause makes a difference
- There isn't a common cause

Without knowing the criteria, then there may be a case where the issua of cause and effect wouldn't exist.

For example, a car hits my car that is parked. He goes to the police and insurance company and blames me for the accident. The thing with this that it doesn't meet all the necessary criteria for cause and effect. What is missing is that the cause is false.

Someone at school had an iPad today and I asked to try it out. This was actually really awesome. Not gonna lie, I think I want one.

Confusion Just Became Simple

This makes me wish we had access to this site before midterms hahahah.

The site "Mission: Critical" that Professor Perez refereed to us was very useful. It helped me understand certain things clear and understanding. The examples are very simple as well. They aren't over the top in complications, but rather they are simple to topics that people know commonly.

The Main Menu is awesome. It gives the main topic of each section and a link that leads to the section. Each section comes with examples, definitions, and my favorite, EXERCISES!

These exercises are amazing. I really wish we had this advantage before test or quiz's. They give a question which is multiple choice then it tells you if you were right or wrong. Whats the best part it also explains why, which is the reason I love it. This will definitely be useful for a study piece before the final. Thanks Professor Perez!

My friend took this picture of my car last week. It is now the default on my facebook lol.

Stuff Happens (Noticed that I changed the word to stuff.)

The topic of this blog post is about how cause and effect works. In the link Professor Perez gave us has seem very different from what I normally do in this class. But different doesn't mean bad, I actually enjoy doing this type of thing.

The topic was how cause and effect works in casual arguments. The example given was about how an accident was occurred during traffic. A truck was parked illegally on the bike lane where a bicycle had to swerve around the truck, where a car behind the bicycle had to suddenly stop, and finally the car behind the car that stopped hit the car that stopped.

The thing that caused a chain of everyone to do something different was the illegally parked truck in the bicycle lane. That caused everyone to do something different and effected the last two cars that got into the accident. So overall the truck is at fault.

I was at the game Tuesday, ended up we kicked hella ass.

Revenge of?.....

Appeal to Spite seemed interesting to talk about. The book Critical Thinking described Appeal to Spite as the hope of revenge as an invariably rejection as bad by some people on moral grounds. Here's an example:

Wally: Hey can you help me?
Richelle: Yeah sure what's wrong?
Wally: I think my coil packs burned out, I need to go to the Volkswagen dealership, can you bring me there?
Richelle: Okay I gotchu`.
Eric: (whispering) Dude.. remember he was suppose to bring you the body shop for your car but he hella flaked on you? Why you helping him?
Wally: Dammit Eric!

This is a good example of an Appeal to Spite. Basically, Wally(me) is asking for help even though I didn't help Richelle before. Richelle agrees to help, but Eric comes out of no where and reminds Richelle of why is she helping me when I didn't help her. More or less, it deals with revenge.

I won this game at a Lan thing yesterday. Halo tournament 1st place wooooo!

Truth Commercials? Are they foreal?

So I chose number 3 from the exercise questions on page 195 of Critical Thinking. The question was to find an advertisement that uses an appeal to fear and tell weather it is a good argument or not.

I had found this advertisement I saw awhile ago on tv, here's commercial.



This was a commercial from the anti-tobacco group called truth. In here you see a bunch of fake body bags being tossed around in front of the tobacco industry to show how many people they kill per day. The problem is, how do they get these statistics? If the argument is true, then they have a reason to disrupt the building to show what they are doing. If not, well then it is against Truth. More or less they are trying to show that they should stop selling cigarettes because it is killing around 1200 people per day. But the argument is bad considering you don't know whether the statics are true or not.

I saw this G35 in top of the 7th street garage the other day and I was like DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN. HELLA LOW. You can see the dime I put on the front bumper in the picture of the whole car hahaha.

Just like fear from a horror movie

The book, "Critical Thinking" describes appeal to emotion "as an argument is just a premise that says, roughly, you should believe or do something because you feel a certain way". From what I feel, I believe appeal to emotion is a way of trying to manipulate someone to do a certain action within a certain emotion.

There are many different ways to appeal to an emotion, which are: Appeal to Pity, Appeal to Fear, Appeal to Spite, and Appeal to Vanity.

The one that caught my eye was the Appeal to Fear. The book Critical Thinking describes Appeal to Fear as, "a way politicians and advertisers manipulate people." The reason that caught my eye was that this type of appeal to emotion is seen all the time. An example could be the "Truth" commercials. They try to find horrible ways that smoking could effect the future of different people in many vulgar ways.

So I tried one of these Monday. FYI only try it if you are healthy.....