What would the world look like if........?
What will happen if .....?
COUNTERFACTUAL CONDITIONAL QUESTIONS
ALTERNATE REALITIES - POSSIBILITIES
What if questions have PHILOSOPHICAL SIGNIFICANCE because they play a crucial role in PROBLEM SOLVING .
Moral imagination necessary for acting ethically and adressing injustices.
What if your parents said yes to everything for an entire day?
What would a school look like if it did not have rules?
“The error of assigning to something a quality or action which can only properly be assigned to things of another category.
Category mistake occurs when we misapply categories or properties, leading to confusion or misunderstanding.
How much does Thursday weigh?
What has the philosopher Aristotle have to do with CATAGORY?-Aristotle’s Categories is a singularly important work of philosophy. It not only presents the backbone of Aristotle’s own philosophical theorizing but has exerted an unparalleled influence on the systems of many of the greatest philosophers in the western tradition..........
require as a precondition of possibility - "take for granted in advance of actual knowledge or experience"
presupposition is an implicit assumption about the world or a background belief that is taken for granted in discourse. It’s something we believe to be true without requiring explicit proof. Here are a few examples: Jane no longer writes fiction.- Presupposition: Jane once wrote fiction.
A presupposition must be mutually known or assumed by both the speaker and the listener for the utterance to be considered appropriate in context. Interestingly, negation of an expression does not change its presuppositions. For instance: Both “I want to do it again” and “I don’t want to do it again” presuppose that the subject has done it already one or more time.
What is persuasive advertising? Persuasive advertising leverages the desires and interests of consumers to convince them to purchase a product or service. This type of advertising presupposes an individual's need or desire for change . A lot of this advertising appeals to the insecure, to be more beautiful, more popular, have greater power, have good taste, have a better time, be a better person and so on. This is assuming that the target audience lacks these qualities or seduces the target audience to question their need. Presupposes that they NEED this product without knowing they do.
What role does social media and algorisms play in distributing false presuppositional advertisements? Are TARGET AUDIENCES linked to PRESUPPOSITION?
What does your social media look like?