Daily Agenda
The Carpentered Environment
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More Help with Definitions
My Ultrasound Was Rape
Personalized Help with Definitions
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The Coin with Two Heads
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Something from the Bar?
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
Class Notes 10/21/2024
Let’s harvest the organs of death row inmates CLAIMS
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Class Notes – 10/21/24
Interesting. Hardly rings a bell.
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Class Notes 10.21.24
– we quantify the life of 12 humans over 1. quantitative claim
– proposal claim, made at the very end of the video of removing ethics from the question by saying if its a scheduled death, we may as well save lives.
I’ve been reading student Comments from the top of the list and I still don’t know what went on in this class. I’m going to blame myself.
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Class notes- figure8clementine
10/21/24
This qualifies for credit. I can actually get a sense from your Notes that something happened in class. I was getting worried.
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Class Notes: 10/21/24
-Willa Cather quote: things that are named sound like a new thing, but that doesn’t explain what it is. Identifying something no one noticed may sound like a new fact, but the thing that was identified was always there. All in all, we can come up with arguments that sounds like a new fact to our readers, but it was always there. It was just not noticed by the readers before.
-Our minds are prejudice of rectangles. Everything around us seems like rectangles, so our minds constantly interpret many things as rectangles even when they are not. In the illusion, our brains can’t comprehend its rotating in a circle. In all of these illusions, the person who made it set up the conditions in the only way that matters for them. This causes the person looking at the illusion to only see it the way the creator wants them to see it. This relates to our writing because we should make the readers of our arguments agree and see the argument how we see it. This will allow them to agree with us.
-When editing our arguments make the title a heading, and center it. For references, center that too.
-First drafts may take a lot of effort and energy to complete, but they are worth nothing when we are near completion of this class.
-Claims are debatable assertions. There are different kinds of claims, which included factual, inferential, and judgmental claims.
-In the video that talked about harvesting organs from death row inmates, there is definitely examples of manipulations. This includes…
The deeper I get into this Notes feed, the more substantive the class meeting sounds. Thanks.
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Class Notes- phoenixxxx23
-“Give people a new word, and they think they have a new fact”
-Naming something does not explain it
-We are used to seeing rectangles everywhere, because we live in the carpentered environment
–Inferential claims might sound like facts, but they are opinions based on facts drawn from an analysis of facts
-First time flipping a coin and twelwth time are different probability
-We are not humans with human rights anymore
-No judge decides
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In the Carpenter Environment, it has the same similarities of the concept of writing an article. The illusion behind the Carpenter Environment depends on how the artist wanted their audience to see from a forced angle. It’s the same concept as writers where they have to explain and convinced readers to follow their point of view. People would automatically be prejudice to see the writers point of view so it’s the writers job to try to convinced or inform readers what it is being declared. It comes down to how the author can manipulate, convince, or force the readers perspective to see the same argument by setting up a condition of what really matters.
For a research paper, it is highly not recommended to put a rhetorical question as a title, and bolded them as well as the reference page. To understand of how to cite is by going to the main page of the counterintuitive home page, then click on the exercise tab, and then lastly click on informal cite to get a brief understanding of how to cite them. The thesis statement in an argumentative essay is a factual claim of one’s assertion based on what that person is claiming to be.
NOT:
THE OPPOSITE:
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Class Notes 10/21
Quote of the day- “Give the people a new word, and they think they have a new fact.”
Continued to go over examples of defintions and watched the “lets harvest the organs of death row inmates” video.
Classic “What Happened” Notes.
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Notes 10/21
The Carpentered Environment
Claims of facts
*helpful tip
Evidence of thoughtful engagement here.
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10/21/24
What Happened:
“Give the people a new word, and they think they have a new fact”Eraser dropping – gravity
The carpentered environmentMore help with definitionsThe coin with two heads
What I got:
One word cannot explain a whole situation
Something must be named before it can exist
Set up the conditions to have your reader see things in the only way it matters.
What I still have Questions about:
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If you can identify something that everyone hasn’t notice it sounds like you made it exist.
The Carpentered Environment
Set up the condition for your reader to understand only one perspective
APA Notes Title Center, Author Tags, Alphabetical Ordering, and Reference Page Centered
Coin with Two Heads
Big claims is the thesis, with many sub thesis provide backing
(Non-directed Organ Donation) How assumption must be made in the mind for on to jump. into conclusion to one dissessuion
Love this:
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10/21/24
New Word or New Fact
What is What?
My Essay Was Dissected
Coin with Two Heads
Love these Notes
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Class notes 10/21/24
I understand this seems inexplicable, but the real-world explanation is that every publication (journal, magazine, website, . . . ) has its own “house style” whether identical to APA or derived from it or some other set of rules. Not one of them is CORRECT except for THAT publication. Our blog has its rules too.
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10/21/24 class notes
Love this Note:
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The Carpenter Environment:
More help with definitions:
Coin with two head:
Good advice for your Causal Argument:
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Class Notes 10.21.24
Nice
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Mongoose Notes – 10/21/2024
You got me with the descriptions of Claims Types.
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Class Notes 10/21
You earned your 4 with your first Note.
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An example would help you remember why you wrote this Note.
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Class Notes 10/21/24
Definition arguments are not only to define a word but more so to show a concept. Explain what a concept means to an argument.
Maintain the readers focus on what you want and remove the distractions.
The same actions or phrase can look very different depending on the conditions surrounding it. Definitions arguments may just be a framing of a term with a simple definition.
Past experiences will always affect how a reader will read a certain claim. No matter how separate the experiences and the argument are the past experiences will still alter how the reader sees the argument put before them.
These are smart takeaways, Student, but detached from their particulars, they’re harder to believe. Better Notes would connect the lesson to the example. The concrete is always easier to remember.
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Class Notes – 10/21
Thing is, if you can actually DO THIS, you can make a credible claim for having invented it:
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Class notes 10/21:
Quote: we use words to describe phenomenon that haven’t been fully described yet, benefits of anxiety: tuning senses, preparing for stress.
The Carpentered Environment: don’t pay attention to, but are surrounded by; perspectives can affect how we understand something- for example the ceiling tiles are rectangles but from our perspective looking at them from below, they look like trapezoids; if predacious towards rectangles, then we see rectangles everywhere we go regardless of if they are actually there; the illusion is actually flat and keeps spinning in same direction; keep demanding their attention and keep the reader from wandering off to extra information.
More Help with Definitions: Definition arguments can be moral arguments, circumstances can affect how something is viewed by others, claims are debatable, a paragraph is supposed to represent a single idea, references is supposed to be no different from other words except being centered, citations and links to sources.
The Coin with Two Heads: With enough samples it can be used as evidence for a claim, this evidence can affect our opinion.
Organ Harvest Video: It implies that it would be painless, implies the convict is guilty, implies they should not get a choice in the matter.
Assignments:
N/A
predacious = prejudiced
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Class notes:
Worth coming to class for this one:
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Class Notes 10/21
-Performance anxiety can be considered a natural way the body prepares itself for a situation
-The Carpenter Environment- we live in a world of shapes such as rectangles
-you don’t want the reader to have any “peripheral vision” meaning you want the reader to be able to focus solely on your argument and not see anything else
-The video shows us that our bias prevents us from fully understanding what is in front of us as we can see that our brains trick us into thinking the block is a 3d object. You should be careful about demanding the readers attention by keeping them focused on the important parts of your arguments.
-My Ultrasound was Rape: An argument has been made of a definition problem that makes the case about rape and consent. Although an action could be different in certain scenarios it can still be considered that specific definition.
-Coin with two heads: Factual claims, inferential claims, judgement claims
-claims are not considered fact but they are often refuted with evidence. Although we are not able to perceive what could happen if the past changed or something that didn’t happen had influenced our opinions can change
Pretty vague:
Under what circumstances would the ultrasound procedure resemble rape?
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Today’s class was very focused on perspective.
We started with the idea that if you invent a word, you invent a fact. Well, if you “coin a word” as I would put it, it is because you need a shorthand for a larger and more complex concept. I have made this point before, that people use movies and media titles as a shorthand for just this.
Gaslighting, was not a widespread word used in the average person’s lexicon until maybe 7-ish years ago, or at least that is when I caught wind of many women using it. The word gaslighting isn’t a word in the traditional sense with some Latin or Germanic root. The word as we use it, came from a play that featured a husband who manipulated his wife with lies and trickery in order to gain her inheritance. As shorthand for encountering any situation that resembles the play, someone may concisely covey the idea by saying “gaslight/gaslighting”.
However, did they actually invent anything? Or did they just give people words to identify something they could not put their finger on?
Two things come to mind.
One was a professor from the university of Toronto (who gained popularity and became (in)famous for something he said.) who wrote a bestselling self-help book. However, the book has received criticism for not exactly being groundbreaking with ideas such as life is full of suffering; Buda predates this idea by thousands of years, back in circa 480 B.C.
Did this professor invent anything? I would say not exactly, this idea and many others of his could be found externally without paying for his book, however I would counter argue that, to his audience, he has a way with words; he was successfully able to convey his observations to them in a way they just could not see or put into words before.
Two is the example is math. There are a number of people on the internet who ask the question is math invented or was it always there? This is very similar to the above however this time I would come away as something has been invented. Does nature have a brain to do math or is that just how it behaves? Does nature say out-loud “Oh look at this light from this human’s flashlight! I better limit it to 186,000 miles per second.” Was there some intelligence that designed the rules of our natural world?
In either case, giving people a word gives people a tool. As language has limitations, it is important to give ourselves words to deal with the world we live in, emphasis on words that we need that our ancestors did not need. At least for now, as words is how we communicate now. However, to foreshadow, it there is some exciting things happening in world of science regarding how people communicate versus perhaps how we “ought to”. I’ll keep that ace up my sleeve for now.
Then we went on to the optical illusions. Again. We watched something akin to the “The dancer optical illusion”, but cooler because it featured one of the biggest science-vid Youtubers Veritasium (My other favorite big Science-tubers being Mark Rober #shameless-plugin #https://www.crunchlabs.com/).
I must admit I could not unsee the image of the window without the “the rectangle bias”. Even more telling is that I live in a rural area and should be able to see the optical illusion without bias. Beats me.
Once again, this a metaphor for saying “show your audience a perspective where they cannot see anything else.”
Which makes a great segue to the harvesting death row inmates organs video. We were told to watch it AND look for other perspectives, specifically how we might be getting manipulated. I watched it and saw nothing. I thought the guy had a good presentation. I did not detect any ladder methods, peer pressure, limited time pressures, shaming, straw-mans, ad hominem, or other common logical fallacies.
The “answer” to how we are being manipulated is (1.) the math of how many lives we can save and (2.) a judge did not tell inmates they couldn’t donate their organs.
Let’s start with the first one. The video argues that one person could save twelve with twelve of his organs. According to a quick search 78 organs seems to be a popular answer, with the second most popular being “depends how you count them”. I do not see how math does not add up; how it is not possible to harvest twelve of the many organs?
As a side note in class, we googled how many people died on death row last year. For some reason there are varying answers on how many people were executed. I am not sure how this came about, as it seems rather obvious what as a death row inmate being executed by the state looks like.
Next, did a judge say the inmates could not donate their organs? There is an image of a judge in the video, however it does not explicitly say a “judge” said they couldn’t. It just says that inmates are denied under the premise that their organs are unusable. Ok so if a judge didn’t say they couldn’t donate, who did? A quick search appears to point at the legal system. Apparently, some states allow it, and some do not. However, even then it is somehow a rare occurrence, and only in rare conditions are the executed allowed to donate, such as one rare case where the deceased had an organ given to a family member. Ok, so if it legal in some states but not others, why is it so rare? The other issue I found in my quick search is the method of execution, which may not allow for good organs to be harvested, such as death by firing squad putting too many holes though organs that would have been useful otherwise.
Ok, so a judge didn’t rule this, government legislation did. If so, how am I being manipulated? The outcome is still the same, death row inmates are not able or are not donating organs except in rare circumstances.
Yes, this one is over my head.
Are we supposed to argue some philosophical virtue ethics? “Every life is priceless?” or something. Isn’t this for the greater good either way? Isn’t that the argument for the polio vaccine some people will “needlessly pay the price” but its for the greater good of everyone else right?
The argument of what if we harvest the organ of an innocent man is moot. Why? Because the government is going to kill him no matter what on X date. It is not a question of if harvesting is ethical, that act of THE STATE using firing squad, lethal injection, electric chair, gas chamber, hanging, etc of inmates is THE ethical question. Debating what to do with the dead body afterward is dumb. Burry it, cremate it, harvest its parts? He is already dead. Your ethical concerns would need to stop the death from occurring in the first place.
Lastly, we did not discuss the status quo. Ask any old person in the U.S. A lot of “seasoned citizens” believe that organ donors do not get good medical treatment. A lot of people believe that organ donors are purposefully failed by doctors so their organs can be harvested. They believe that if they do not give their organs, doctors will be more altruistic because they have nothing to gain by not helping them to the max. This is why we are in this situation in the first place.
Once again if this video was supposed to show manipulation tactics, I did not see it.
Odd that you acknowledge you’re manipulated by the forced perspective approach in optical illusions but can’t see you’re being manipulated by the forced perspective of choosing death row inmates instead of every freaking person to be compulsive organ donors.
Regarding math inventions, you’d enjoy this book about the invention of Zero.
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Class Notes 10/21
The Carpentered Environment
You’re good at this.
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10/21
You certainly have opinions! 🙂
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class note 10/21
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10/21
To start we have a new quote of the mornin, “Give the people a new world and they think they have a new fact” From Willa Cather. This is a very simplified version of our definition argument explaining that when we invent or figure out something in our world we make our readers feel like we gave them a new fact to share.
We then talk about perceptive and interpretation with the use of a shaded, 2D window frame that is styled to look 3D in our eyes even with a person or object inside it.This is to demonstrate how our brains shift perspectives all the time and that all it needs is the right point of view of what the object or subject is to shift it just enough for it to seemout of place but normal.Its a very odd and satifity affect done by just a sheet of paper and a talented artist with some paint.
We then begin to look over people definition arguments, just to notice after all we’ve learned what to change and how to represent a essay in an appropriate fashion.Those could be adding a proper title, No bolds, fixing the references and how there represented in APA Citations and overall critiquing authors on any mistakes possible.(Respectfully… Respectfully)
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Notes-
The mind may have a subconscious prejudice towards rectangles due to the nature of the world around us. In more developed areas, right angles, and especially rectangles, are seen in almost everything from doors to shelves, to windows. This can make the brain want to see the illusion and prevent people from seeing the rotating window frame for what it is. This can be seen as a conditioning of sorts in the brain as in if the brain expects to see something, there are times that the brain will make you see it even when it is not there. This shows that everything can be a matter of finding the right perspective. What may be seen as wrong in the eyes of one person could be the best option in the eyes of another. This can be used in writing because just as the illusion is made to make the brain see what it wants, a piece of writing can be written in such a way as to alter the perspective of another in order to make them see what they want them to see. The video that talked about harvesting death row inmate’s organs creates an argument for it by framing it in a sense that draws on both ethos and logos by saying that 12 people can be helped through the use of only 1 inmate, drawing on a positive saying that just one person can help many others and that makes it both worth it and okay.
Make the title a heading and center it for the revisions
Good to see you’re processing something.
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Class Notes 21 October 2024
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Class Notes for 10/21
Brilliant Summaries, Skibidy.
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