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World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

Knowledge Analysis by David Hume

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

Power, Knowledge, and Management

relationship is basically dependent on which side determines the objectives which are to be achieved and means which are to be emp...

Michel de Montaigne Essays

out of these thoughts. The essays are deliberately unstructured,...

Controlling New Technologies

genetic products. This is one of many controversies involving genetic research and a subject that is the concern of one scholar in...

Meno and Plato's Arguments

they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...

Information and Globalization

well. Because of cultural and communication differences, there is much that can be lost between the language barriers which can m...

Courtroom and the Importance of Psychological Knowledge

The use of psychological knowledge in the courtroom, however, is becoming somewhat more common, even though physical knowledge, or...

An Appraisal of W.H. Smith Retail Outlets' Managers and Assistant Managers

HRM issues, such as change management, organizational learning and quality programs. However, these particular sectors of commerc...

Knowledge and Suffering

(1986) comments upon the concept of balance, he notes that knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ide...

Epistemology and Descartes

might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...

Comparing Platonism and Atomism

concerning change in the world. Although the methods of reasoning they used were not those of the modern scientific method, it is ...

God, Nature, and Human Knowledge and the Philosophies of John Locke and Rene Descartes

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

Reality Struggles of Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, and David Hume

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

'Without Prejudice' Correspondence Admissibility

1995, p. 20). In the case of Rush & Tompkins v. Greater London Council, "One issue in this appeal concerns the production t...

Holocaust and the Response of the United States

American public went on with their lives unaffected. It is interesting to note that Novick attributes more of the Jewish awarenes...

Principles of Management

did think that workman demonstrated excellent work habits only spasmodically, which was why rules were needed (Boylan, 1995). The...

A Review of Berkes' Perspectives on Ecology

very essence of what it means to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she d...

Locke vs. Descartes on Mind and Body

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

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...

Aesthetic Judgment as Interpreted by Immanuel Kant

to what is art often comes up. Can the medium, or materials used-be it urine or elephant dung which modern artists have been known...

A Priori Knowledge from a Foundationalist Perspective

it applies to the view of a priori knowledge and also consider the writings of philosophers like Kant and Descartes as they serve ...

Knowledge of Humanity, Empiricism vs. Rationalism

is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...

Knowledge Types

A person from the Midwest who goes to college and comes to Manhattan for example, would not last a day in a dangerous neighborhood...

Information Systems' Failure Analysis

of such a project as it relates to the companys needs, one must first determine the level of human interaction - as well as the le...

U.S. and Domestic Violence

only the persons, place, or things the violence is inflicted upon, but also victimizes the witnesses to such occurrences. With ...

Arkady Shevchenko's Breaking With Moscow

days later that the world learned that Arkady Shevchenko had defected to the United States. In 1957, Arkady Shevchenko, a Commu...

Three Perspectives on Problems with Teaching English

learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...

Intelligence Theories and Philosophy

world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...

Machine Learning, Data Mining, and KM

new information becomes available. This requires a dynamic form of programmes that will facilitate machine learning. In this paper...