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Essays 271 - 300

Reality and Knowledge and Descartes and Berkeley

think, therefore I am" (Frost 2550. From this Descartes reasoned a body of ideas that he did not believe could be disputed, as th...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

Rene Descartes' Works

(Anonymous The Philosophy of Ren? Descartes, 2002; phildescartes1.htm). In 1629 settled himself in Holland, a place which appar...

Hyperbolic Doubt of Rene Descartes

logically be at a variance. So, for the person uttering the statement about the validity of the solidness of the chair, it may ver...

Empirical Sciences and the Connection Between Observation and Theory

function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...

Symbolism and Theme of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Doubt Philosophy of Rene Descartes

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

Man Philosophically Defined

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

Radical Doubt in the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...

Philosophy and the Relationship Between the Body and the Mind

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

Sixteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries' Scientific Concepts

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

Introducing Profit Centers into a University

In addition to this there needs to be a system of transfer prices introduced (Young, 2008) where one school (such as the business ...

Organizational Change

been present in older civilizations such as the ancient Greek or Chinese societies (Haralambos and Holborn, 2004, Bilton et al, 20...

Supermarket Project Case Study

target demographic and the running costs could increased substantially where there is a very low rate of unemployment and labour c...

Infant Mortality

account for there reversal in the infant mortality rates seen since the 1980s. This paper will look at the patterns and trend in...

The Likely Effects Of E-Commerce On The Future Of Book Publishing

issues may still have the potential for a very large impact. The idea of the e-book is that a book may be bought in electronic f...

The Job Application: What Executives Look For

be here to stay. It is something that is necessary in order to secure a job most of the time. And for every job, there are a numbe...

A Look at Aristotle's View on the Educated Mind

weight, how to raise children properly and so forth. The majority of people are not much interested in deeper issues. One may rel...

A Philosophical Look at Animal Testing

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

Process Essay: How to Look for a Job

that really interest him. There are a great many companies that do the same thing, but each one is different, and the job seeker w...

Bellamy/Looking Backward,

owners of the factories were convinced that there was "no other way in which Society could get along, except that many pulled at t...

Pensions and Accounting: A Look at FASB Statements 87 and 106

measuring reporting liabilities of costs associated with benefit pension plans, it seems that there has been some controversy ("FA...

A Paper Looking at Risk, CAPM, Beta, Time Value of Money, NPV and IRR

risk is reflected in a share price, but does not allow for market risk as this impacts on all shares. CAPM looks to the role of di...

Looking Backward by Bellamy

Brothers of the American Railway Union: We struck at Pullman because we were without hope" (Zinn; Arnove, 2004; 234). In t...

A Look at the Exclusionary Rule

order types who protect the police, and believe that every suspect is guilty and every guilty man needs to be sentenced harshly. A...

Another Look at “Trial Techniques”

and McCrimmon). Mauet and McCrimmon go on to explain two other challenges, "a challenge to the array and a challenge to the poll...

Modern Foods: A Look at Changes in Mexican, Indian and Chinese Cuisine

Indian confronts as his native food has changed, but a positive notion is that Indians are accepting of modern ways. The fact that...

A Look at the Subprime Market

higher and profits are lower that there is such an interest in this market. Over the years, as business grows, there needs to be...