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Muhammad

Both Peters and Dashti make some drastic theoretical presuppositions and assumptions in their writings. First of all, and most importantly, they assume most of the stories that supposedly took place during 's life as true. This seems very important to me. The stories of events that involved are mostly gathered through word of mouth or a "chain of transmission" and through 's own writings. Though I believe most of the stories about the life of to be factual, I also know that word of mouth is not the most reliable source in this day and age, and the truth could be just as easily warped in the time of . The authors also make the assumption that people's way of thinking in the time of ...

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in all stories we here, about or anything else for that matter.
Obviously, since I believe that the authors have made these assumptions, I also believe that the writings we are presented are slanted. I do not believe, however that they have been unduly slanted. The arguments and presuppositions that the authors make are sound and fair. Without these presuppositions, we wouldn't be able to tell stories about anything or anybody even about people from our own time era. Authors need to make assumptions such as these to find the truth about things. Without authors making assumptions, we couldn't say much about anything for fear that our entire way of thinking is wrong. Different authors making different assumptions brings us closer to the truth by giving us different ways of looking at things.
In writing assignment number two, the way I described the two authors' methodology and goals ties in very much with the statements I have already made about their assumptions. I stated ...

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Added: 8/14/2005 02:36:51 PM
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