SU-PHIL2 Oral Exam 1 Prep
Last edited: August 8, 2025- It seems to me that once we depart from the notion of TS and TO, the later conversations about consiquentialism, objectivism, and justice ceases to discuss what exactly is “right”/“wrong” and instead how to bring it about; yet, under a notion of command theory, the latter considerations of what “to do” (i.e., whether to be consiquentialist, etc.) can be waved away by sang “people do it/people believe in it”. Therefore, isn’t there an order of operations required or at least an assumption of some kind of objectivism which allows the remaining conversations to proceed?
- How does consiquentialist theories command deliberation? I know it is not a deliberative theory, but how does the consiquentialist ask one to go about having choices? That is, surely, as the readings mention, one mustn’t over-think aspects which require spontaneity?
- This is a higher level question: especially for more “extreme” arguments like Singer, how is it supposed to be taken? What Singer advocates directly is practically impossible to implement, even in a weaker version. Doesn’t this show the absurdity of globally moral thinking? If it doesn’t, how is it supposed to be implemented?
SU-PWR Bite of China
Last edited: August 8, 2025SU-PWR Citizenfour
Last edited: August 8, 2025general choice of sound
- ominous/bad: low tonal drone
- surveillance: loud high frequency buzz
- final ending music contrasts with erythidng
- uses immediate dialogue with no visuals to present focus
- rawness/truth of the dialogue (and arguably Snowden’s good job at phrasing) makes it more compelling
- nat sound without visuals provide additional focus
- background music modulates emotional valence
- fairly significant use of nat packages to emphasize reality
- the tone of the reading also modulates the opinion
- the confrontation of the court creates tension
- parallel contrasting statements
- transition to Snowden interview feels relatively peaceful compared to the beginning, which is drawing attention in its own way
- the jovial nature being in the room contrasts to the serious issue at hand
- the cuts are really quite hard: to emphasize contrast between loud news breaks and the quietness of the hotel room—especially large contrast with regards to Ed Snowden’s wife being raided, etc., which is rather peaceful
- or the quiet of TV television as compared to the loud noise of the nat package behind
the lack of speaking from the camera operator/sounds behind the makes the scene much more intimate
subgroup
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subspace
Last edited: August 8, 2025A subspace is a vector space which is a subset of a vector space, using the same addition and scalar multiplication operations. Intuitively, a subspace of \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\) are all the lines through the origin as well as \(\{0\}\); a subspace of \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\) are all the planes through the origin as well as \(\{0\}\), etc. etc.
constituents
- vector space \(V\)
- A subset \(U \subset V\) which is itself a vector space
requirements
You check if \(U\) is a subspace of \(V\) by checking IFF the following three conditions:
