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Abby Summerlin, Scott Thomas Stanley, I'Yari Ah'Shanyk Wade, Meseker Worku Kebede 10/17/2022 1:30 - 2:00 In our discussion of Ishmael, I personally stuck to my groups response when asked about the narrator told Ishmael he wished he meet him when he was 17. Since everyone in our group was close to the age of 17, we talked about how we felt about how learning how to think at that age is so important for the rest of our lives. While I don't think younger people are better to save the world, I think learning this information at such a young age gives you the time to use it and also allows you to fully comprehend how to do so.  We also spoke about how interesting we found Ishmael view on Giver and Takers. Many of the members of my group thought that Ishmael had the right to view Giver and Takers the way he did but we also mentioned that there wasn't any middle ground with Ishmael. You were either a "nature lover" or trying to ruin the world and many of my group mem...

  1. This is a school yearbook photo 2. This photo is bad ----------- Conclusion: All school yearbook photos are bad

 Abby Summerlin Professor Amy Glaser  Philosophy 205 - 006 2nd October, 2022  The Three Beliefs of Epistemology    In Ultimate Questions Chapter 3, we go over the different stances on finding true knowledge and whether one can know it or not. We have Skepticism, which believes one cannot know anything; Empiricism, which believes that knowledge is based solely on how one perceives things; and Rationalism, which believes knowledge is based on reason over actions. Each has arguments that have been argued over many years, and each has its own unique set of qualities I plan to explore in this essay.    Skepticism is the belief that you can't truly know anything. This is famously argued by Descartes's Dream Argument, which in summary, is the argument that since we can't prove that we aren't dreaming currently, then we can't filter between what's real and what dream. This would mean we couldn't know anything at all. While Descartes later disproved his own the...