History

I think that we are not being taught “fake” stuff in history class, just that we are being taught stuff that isn’t properly backed up with evidence, or that it doesn’t show all the perspectives of the event. An example would be the moon landing, in history we are taught that it happened, although they do not tell us that there are theories that it didn’t happen. History class is teaching the basic facts like when wars happen although there are not accurate, like what the war is called is other countries, or the views of the other countries on that war.

1 comment September 24, 2008

Human Science

I think that religion is a human science, because some people are totally devoted to their religion, and to them the practices of their religion is what they do, so therefore to study that person (or group of people) you would have to include their religion. In human science when you study the people sometimes religion (or lack of religion) is important to the study of that person or culture.

Add a comment September 22, 2008

Language

I think that written language would be most effective to explain to someone that the world is round, because then you could draw pictures and diagrams of the world. You could draw a world map as a sphere and make diagrams of the crust, mantle exc. of the different layers of the earth, and also do gravitational math problems to prove the existance of gravity. You could also make solar system diagrams, and charts thus proving that the other planets are spherical.

This would be more effective than telling someone or trying to act it out because then you could use math and diagrams to explain it to someone without trying to do an interpretive dance or  just saying it because they could just ignore what you said because it could be false, like I could say, apples are blue, that doesn’t mean that you have to believe me, but if I showed you a chemical compound of an apple, that proves the apple is blue then you might believe me more.

Add a comment September 22, 2008

Mathematics

I think that mathematical constants like the golden ratio and others are man made. I think that they exist but people try very hard to find links between the ratios and such of certain things. Everyone is made similar so therefore there is a common ratio between everyone, but that doesn’t mean that the common ration exists in everything and it naturally occurs. It just means that there are certain similarities between things because they are created the same, for example there would be a “golden ratio” for the length of tigers and the length of their legs, it wouldn’t be the same ratio as for humans it would be a separate tiger ratio.

Add a comment September 22, 2008

Art

Over analyzing are diminishes the value of art because when you take a piece of art and search for hidden meanings and try to imagine what the artist was thinking of when he/she made the work, it makes you look too deeply into the piece of art. By over analyzing the meaning of the art you can look too hard and miss the original concept. For example, like the video we watched on the first day, of the people throwing the basketball and the gorilla, that could be a peice of art work and you are looking too hard for the meaning and missing the man in the gorilla suit.

Add a comment September 22, 2008

Ethics

Ethics can be quantized to a certain extent. There are situations where you know it has been taken too far, like the situation that was used of someone stealing from work. The fact that they are stealing is wrong but then there are other factors, like why the are stealing, if they had a good intention there might not be as much of a problem as if there were bad intentions behind the stealing. The ethics behind the situation would be based on the extent f the situation, which would put a limit on the ethics therefore quanitfying it.

Add a comment September 16, 2008

Emotion

Fear causes me to reason irrationally when I go up high, in a tall building, or mountain. I feel like I am going to fall, even though there is no possibility that it is going to happen because how many people do you hear falling off the space needle, or that an elevator cable snapps and everyone in it falls to their death. If I were to reason rationally then I would realize that I am not going to slip and fall, because nobody every does, and that I am just thinking irrationally about the situation.

Add a comment September 15, 2008

Natural Science

I would use the scientific method without using math when I come up with an idea for a project, then I have to plan out the project and the presentation. The scientific method is used in that situation as a guideline to what steps should be taken in compeleting the project and how to get it done efficently.

Add a comment September 14, 2008

Reason

A time have used reason without language is when I golf. On the golf couse nobody is telling you how to hit the ball or where to hit it. Only that it needs to end up in the hole at the end.

I use reason without language when I am attempting to solve math problems. When I solve problems I use the numbers to come up with the answer, by a formula.

2 comments September 10, 2008

Sensory Perception

We as humans use our sense of touch the most. We like to feel things and are more likely to understand things we can touch. When people loose their hearing or their sight, then they rely on touching things more to learn about them or figure out what they are.

The sense I would give up would be my sense of smell. I would give it up because sometimes there are bad smells, like tar, that you don’t want to smell, but the good things that you can smell, like cookies, can also be tasted. Losing my sense of sight or hearing would make it difficult to function whereas a sense of smell wouldn’t have that much of an impact.

1 comment September 10, 2008