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PHIL 110 - Critical Thinking - Discussion Assignment, CUNY School of Professional Studies, USA
Discussion - 'Be honest, truthful, and altruistic.' - A logical analysis of a profound recommendation.
On November 5, 2018 His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama tweeted the following: Be honest, truthful, and altruistic. If you concern yourself with taking care of others, there'll be no room for lies, bullying and cheating. If you're truthful you can live transparently, which will enable you to establish trust, the basis for making friends.
Read this tweet and think about it. Observe the type of argument style that it uses. For this discussion assignment, we'll be applying the rules of propositional logic to analyze his tweet. In your discussion post, address all four steps of this assignment, then read and comment to other students. Compare their answers to yours, make suggestions (or even corrections) as needed.
For your reference, use the following table:
Conjunction &
Disjunction ∨
Negation ~
Conditional ⊃
Biconditional ≡
Step 1. Describe the following representations, which is a reconstruction of the argument above. (Note, this is my reconstruction of this argument, using charity and faithfulness. There might be other ways to reconstruct it, but for the purpose of this assignment, we'll go with this one). What is A, L, U and S stand for? How do these symbols and statements describe/represent the tweet above? Be sure to reference appropriate terminology, as we learned it during this course to describe the argument.
Step 2. Review the and complete the missing elements from the following truth table. Be sure to write a brief explanation (1-2 sentences) on how you went about completing the truth table, what rules did you use, how did you come up with your answers.
Step 3. Take a look at your completed Truth Table. If you have done it correctly, there is a line that closely corresponds to the Dalai Lama's statement. Which line (from 1 through 16) is it? Be sure to justify your selection in a couple of brief sentences. (Hint, look for a line in which A, U and S are True, L is False, and all of the corresponding conditionals are True).
Step 4. Personal reaction: What do you think about the Dalai Lama's tweet? How might his statement be relevant to our lives? Do you find that you agree with it, and if so why, or if not, why not.
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