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Transforming Knowledge and Effective Writing

reader, but it is not likely if the writing is dry or bland. One has to wonder weather or not bland writing is sufficient or just...

Cultural Control and Knowledge Workers' Research

seen with many of the older crafts, or knowledge transfer, though training (Polanyi 1973). This may also be seen as the acquiring...

Summa Theologica Guide for the Perplexed

he could grasp with his own intellect, what he could actually perceive by his own senses, and what a trustworthy person told him. ...

The Structure of DNA and the Risks Inherent in Understanding It

This paper first delineates the molecular structure of DNA and how it replicates itself. The author warns that as our knowledge o...

How Can The Police Improve Knowledge Management - A Research Proposal

The writer presents a proposal for research with the aim of identifying improvement to knowledge management which will aid police ...

Increasng Sustainability of Medicaid and Medicare

It is public knowledge that the Medicare and Medicare programs are going broke. They are not sustainable with current expenses. It...

Science and Practice - Incompatible?

Science and practice of psychotherapy have been at odds for decades. Each has different goals: knowledge for its own sake or knowl...

The Impact of Science on Knowledge

This 9 page paper explains how natural sciences have an effect on how knowledge is founded. This paper evaluates the impact scienc...

Hospital Administrator

to gain an executive position immediately upon graduation, possibly in a specialty area such as government relations, medical staf...

Theory of Knowledge or Epistemology

the Christian religion. In other words, in order to belief in God, the Bible as the proof of God must be justified or proved itse...

Information and Knowledge in the Age of Cyberspace

(2001), information is prone to imperfect recollection, leaving a portion of data to be lost entirely, which one might readily att...

J.B. Priestley's 2 Kinds of Authors Analyzed

this might be referred to as either daydreaming or free association, when the knowledge is finally told it often resembles what is...

Saint Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

professor is a good example of the difference between intellectual knowledge and sense knowledge. To take that a step beyond, and ...

Knowledge Can Be Dangerous

the belief in those things that could not be seen, felt or proven by scientific means. Not content to blindly believe in that whi...

Objects, Knowledge, Perception, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

Changes in Business Employee Hiring Approaches

for positions at lower levels and a wide range of costs is evident." Yet, unfortunately many Human Resource professionals overloo...

Roderick M. Chisholm's Knowledge Theory

In six pages Chisholm's theory of knowledge and the reliance on memory and the senses as sources of this knowledge are discussed. ...

Virtues of Mind by Linda Zagzebski

combining the areas of reform epistemology, philosophy and psychology, with the intent to prove that intelligent virtue is the tru...

Intellect and Knowledge and Descartes

This research report examines the theories of Descartes and how knowledge and the intellect relate to experiential knowledge. The ...

Knowing the Future by Knowing the Past

In five pages this paper provides support for the statement 'Without knowledge of the past, we would have no knowledge at all.' S...

What People in the Colonial Era Knew

Knowledge and learning were extremely important in America during colonial times. With examples such as Benjamin Franklin and Thom...

Knowledge and the Views of Plato and Aristotle

In seven pages the philosophical arguments by Plato and Aristotle regarding knowledge involves discussion of its source, acquisiti...

God As Conceptualized by Baruch Spinoza

God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...

Freedom as Conceptualized by Christianity

In fifteen pages Chapters Eight through Ten of Corinthians, Paul's first Epistle, are studied in an examination of how the Christi...

Analysis of Good Will as Conceptualized by Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper contemplates the 'goodness' of good will as featured in Immanuel Kant's work The Grounding for the Metaph...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare and the Utopian Kingdom as Conceptualized by Gonzalo

In five pages Act II's short passage in which Gonzalo details his ideal kingdom characteristics are examined in terms of Utopianis...

Good and Evil as Conceptualized by Plato in Meno

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

Rawls and Nozick on Equality

traditional theory of the social contract" (Rawls 514). According to Rawls, there should be a "veil of ignorance" in regards to ...

How Does A Particular Intentional Mental State, Such As A Belief Or A Desire, Come To Have Its Particular Content?

To conjure a concept is to bring about thought; however, the question as to where and how that thought originated continues to be ...

Hobbes, Knowledge And The Constitution

significant reason society is its own opposing force. Moreover, subjects of the omnipotent Leviathan are morally responsible for ...