Facial recognition and deep learning technologies are making our lives easier, but they’re also raising new challenges and controversies. We explore the impact of this technology on industry and society. Google Maps is a mapping service provided by Google that provides a street-by-street view of the world. The service is based on satellite imagery. These photos inevitably show the...
Logical positivism and critical rationalism are two ways of looking at scientific theories. But which one describes science more accurately? Logical positivism holds that a statement is scientifically significant if it can be determined with certainty as true or false through objective observation, uninfluenced by existing theories, and that universal statements are formed through the...
Entailment theory originated in ethics and has influenced a variety of disciplines, including aesthetics, psychology, and linguistics. This article explores the concept of entailment and its extensions. The concept of entailment, a term that describes the relationship between some properties and others, began to be discussed in the field of ethics and spread to other disciplines. According...
Process theory describes causality as the transmission of change rather than a simple sequence of events. But can it fully explain all causal relationships? With the rise of the scientific worldview, Western philosophers since the modern era have tended to limit causation to relationships between physical actions. The problem is that, as Hume pointed out, causality itself is not directly...
Social media is revolutionizing the way we communicate and influencing politics, economics, and culture. We explore the role of social media as both a convenience and a danger. Just a few years ago, no one would have imagined that checking your Facebook newsfeed in the morning would become part of everyone’s daily routine. Celebrity Twitter updates dominate daily headlines and...
What does it mean to be an adult? A small moment on the subway made me examine my values: consideration and yielding, a choice or a responsibility? In high school, college students with their pretty clothes and squeaky high heels looked like the coolest people in the world, and I would get excited just watching them walk by in groups of three or four. To me, being a college student was...
Should legal interpretation emphasize linguistic clarity or consider social context and purpose? The theories of Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart and Lon Luvois Fuller will be explored to answer these questions. Interpreting law means clarifying the content of a legal rule and determining its scope of application. However, even if a rule of law works well in many cases, it can be problematic...
Genetic modification and biotechnological advances can make humans stronger and more intelligent. But will Homo sapiens still exist at the end of it all? Right now on Earth, humans are at the top of the food chain. We are capable of building cities, splitting atoms, exploring the origins of the universe, and so much more. It’s no exaggeration to say that we’ve been at the peak...
Private space companies are reducing costs and changing the paradigm of space development with rocket reuse technology. But could this technology accelerate the space age? After conquering the Earth, humans turned their attention to space, and what our ancestors could only stare at the night sky, modern humans have access to modern science and technology based on rocket technology. Rocket...
Principles of law and rules of law are important concepts in the interpretation and application of law. Let’s take a closer look at the differences between the two concepts and how they affect legal judgment. Legal principalism divides legal norms into legal rules and legal principles. Rules of law have determinate normative content, while principles of law are ideological...