• Law, Legislation and Liberty - Hayek

    There exists no third principle for the organisation of the economics process which can be rationally chosen to achieve any desirable ends, in addition to either a functioning market in which nobody can conclusively determine how well-off particular groups or individuals will be, or a central direction where a group organised for power determines it. Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to...

  • What should we do when faced with adversity?

    Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received--hatred. The great creators--the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors--stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought...

  • Private Institutions and Poverty

    So long as power remains privately concentrated, everybody, everybody, has to be committed to one overriding goal: and that’s to make sure that the rich folk are happy — because unless they are, nobody else is going to get anything. So if you’re a homeless person sleeping in the streets of Manhattan, let’s say, your first concern must be that the guys in the mansions are happy — because if they’re happy, then they’ll...

  • Brief Outline of Feminist Theory

    In the early 1980s law became subject to a variety of new and influential critiques. The foremost being the culmination of feminism. The vindications of women’s rights lead to a prominent movements, whereby, contextualisation of domestic violence, rape, sexual objectification, oppression, sexual discrimination, marriage and sexual marginalisation became scrutinized against the social normality, and new discourses of ...

  • Why do I feel oppressed?

    Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy, on the grounds that private vices yield public benefits, in the classic formulation. Now, it has long been understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle will destroy...

Posts tagged Arguments vs. Explanations

Sad Inspiring Philosophy Quotes

Jun 11th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Philosophy

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Life is far too short to dwell in the failings of yesteryear. My philosophy is to love those who love you, forget those who you can live without, and believe that life is a journey pitted with obstacles which, especially through failure, make us stronger and more appreciative of what we have accomplished. Although tomorrow may look bleak, it is a new day with new opportunity to make a greater change for the future. The greatest flaw we can ever make is believing progress starts with the first step. It starts when we decide to make a difference, however small More >

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Arguments vs. Explanations

Jan 11th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Philosophy

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There are two defining differences between an argument and an explanation.

Simplified:

Arguments demonstrate to prove that something is true.

Explanations demonstrate how something is true.

An example:

An explanation of how an animal died would explain the circumstances of how it died.

An argument, similarly about the dead animal, would account for whether it is truly dead.

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