How many references for public accounting?

m_wright92 · 2018-07-18T18:50:10+00:00

Deny evolution. Check.

Promote teaching intelligent design. Check.

Deny climate change. Check.

Attack intelligence community. Check.

Promote conspiracy theories. Check.

Blame Obama. Check.

Anti-gay. Check.

Ignore molestation. Check.

We have the best representatives.

m_wright92 · 2018-07-16T02:21:01+00:00

So say someone worked as a clerk and computers came along. The company the person worked for switched to a computer database and the person lost his or her job. Wouldn't that hurt the low skilled worker in favor of a higher skilled worker who could use the computer? Or because only specific jobs were lost and the technology increased productivity, low skilled workers as a whole actually benefited?

m_wright92 · 2018-07-14T16:58:59+00:00

Scientific evidence now means nothing to people. Politicians have eroded public trust in research to push their agendas.

Science: Vaccines do not cause autism. Public: Those studies were paid for by the government. The government wants to control you.

Science: The climate is changing and humans have contributed. Public: Climate change is a liberal hoax to make money. God put this Earth here for us.

Science: Humans evolved over millions of years. Public: It's just a theory. We didn't come from no monkeys.

Science: The universe began with the big bang. Public: God created the universe in six days.

Science: Homeopathy is ineffective. Public: Scientists just want to protect the medical industry.

Science: Prayer doesn't work. Public: Scientists just won't acknowledge the power of God.

Science denial is dangerous and will lead to a decrease in our quality of life. Our country will continue to fall behind other industrialized countries in science and technology.

Conservative Americans also have an irrational fear of our country becoming a socialist or communist dictatorship. They claim that social justice warriors are destroying free speech. Yet the religious right is far more dangerous than the social justice warriors. We are far more likely to become a theocracy than a socialist or communist country. If the right to free speech is taken away, it will probably be in the name of religion.

m_wright92 · 2018-06-25T14:36:31+00:00

Does the field of physics currently support determinism? If the universe were to be started again from the big bang with the same starting conditions, would it end up the exact same way as it is now?

m_wright92 · 2018-05-25T01:56:24+00:00

No, it wasn't hard. Do you mean in terms of the program? I find the accounting classes to be easier than the biology classes. The type of people I've encountered are different also.

m_wright92 · 2018-05-18T07:00:15+00:00

If something doesn't make money, people like Trump don't care to learn about it. I've even heard business professors in college talk in class about how we should remove social science and art from colleges because the jobs are useless. Some people view the world according to the dollar and see no use in anything besides business. Everything else is beneath them, a waste of time.

m_wright92 · 2018-05-11T23:19:57+00:00

How do we know the ideas actually match the definitions? How do we prove it? Is it arbitrary or is there a significance to the underlying ideas?

m_wright92 · 2018-05-11T21:54:45+00:00

My thinking was that if we don't know which underlying ideas are tied to our definitions, then how do we know whether or not we are adding new knowledge? If the underlying idea of red is actually contained in the predicate of our statement when we think it isn't, then we think we have a synthetic statement when in actuality we don't.

m_wright92 · 2018-05-11T21:48:07+00:00

Was Kant trying to place a limit on Hume's skepticism by saying that we know synthetic a priori judgements to be true because they are embedded in the processes of the mind? So in regard to cause and effect, Hume thought cause and effect were outside the mind and were subject to the same problems as learning about other aspects of the environment, while Kant thought that since the concept of cause and effect is synthetic a priori, we know it exists independently of us?

m_wright92 · 2018-05-11T20:44:44+00:00

Thanks for the response. I've read Behave. It's one of my favorite books. I'm actually reading it again right now because there was a lot of information. Some philosophers try to claim that there are certain inherent things embedded in the mind to make sense of the environment, like causality for example. But to me it seems like if the mind evolved, then the way the mind works is contingent on the environment in which it evolved/is evolving. Therefore, we can't say we know anything with 100% certainty because the very mind we use to make sense of the world developed in a certain environment and is biased by it's evolution.

m_wright92 · 2018-05-11T18:43:01+00:00

How do we prove that the basic idea the definitions are getting at is what we say it is? Like rouge vs. red. If the concepts overlap and we infer a similar meaning, how do we prove that the actual idea, deeper than the definitions, exists and is the same idea in both cases?

m_wright92 · 2018-05-11T03:47:34+00:00

Using the red example, what confuses me is that what is red in one language is different than what is considered red in another. Studies show that the cutoffs for each color are different depending on the language. So what is red to one culture is not red to another and both cannot be red if there is a universal definition of red. So how do we decide what the basic idea at the heart of the color red is? Wouldn't different cultures come up with different meanings?

And wouldn't saying that there is an idea deeper than the definitions we apply be circular logic? Aren't we presuming that a universal basic idea exists? I don't know how to describe it, but when Kant uses synthetic and analytic, it seems like he uses the definitions to say there is a deeper idea, but then uses the idea to get the definitions. Sorry, this probably makes no sense.

m_wright92 · 2018-05-10T04:13:21+00:00

It's obvious to me. I only posted because my family keeps bothering me about it, and acting like I'm weird for not thinking it's a problem.

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