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Tingzi
While the whole world is morphing into something you cannot recognise, there are definitely things that deserve to stay where they used to be. |
Chao Kiat
The owner of "The lying blog". A perfect lie makes a perfect world.
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Pannie
If you are treading water, you are losing ground. There're no absolutes, only relatives in this world
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Monday, February 08, 2010 ~ My Philosophy assignment -_- I highly doubt anyone will be in time to help me with this assignment (which is due on Thursday), so this blog post is merely for the purpose of sharing, and not looking for help (even though help will very much be appreciated). Anyway, I have been spending the whole morning plus afternoon analysing the following passage, and since it requires thinking, I shall share it here... :“Either I will be killed in this raid or I will not be killed. Suppose that I will. Then even if I take precautions I will be killed, so any precautions I take will be ineffective. But suppose I am not going to be killed. Then I won’t be killed even if I neglect all precautions; so, on this assumption, no precautions are necessary to avoid being killed. Either way, any precautions I take will be either ineffective or unnecessary, and so pointless.” From my analysis and some lazy research, I learnt that this argument is taking a fatalistic point of view. Fatalism refers to leaving everything to "inevitable predetermination " or "Fate". Ok.. the rest I shall leave to you all to analyse ba. =P |