The articles of "Chance: An African view"‚ "How to convince a reluctant scientist" and "Common sense of science" each involve a philosopher who tried to show how theories and facts in science is discovered. The article of "Chance: An African view"involves the theory of Popper‚ "How to convince a reluctant scientist" involves the theory of Kuhn and "Common sense of science" involves accumulation of both those theories in Lakatos. They are connected because "Chance: An African view" and "How to convince
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Professor Innes Jerry “Sean” Hughes Mid Term Kant vs. Bentham Throughout the realm of philosophy there have been many arguments on the idea of ethics and what motivates human nature and guides our judgments. I will be focusing on two philosophers both of whom tried to answer that question. Jeremy Bentham whose views on what should be used to guide our judgments as to what’s wrong or right have been defined as utilitarianism. Focusing on a different idea using morals and a sense of duty
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defined territorially‚ and not necessarily by culture‚ although this is taken for granted to an extent by communitarianism. Communitarians say that each community is different‚ and therefore should act accordingly with each other. In other words‚ state autonomy should be absolute and law and moral standards should be self-determined by the community itself alone. Furthermore‚ communities should have no obligations to other political communities or any sort of international law. Contrastingly‚ Cosmopolitans
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Good governance and political system has always been a cry for many nations especially developing countries Zambia inclusive. It is believed that good governance yield more economic and social development. Numerous scholars have written a number of books concerning good governance. Confucius believed to have been born in 551 BCE in Zou‚ Shandong Province and Lao Tzu said to have lived in the sixth century BCE are such examples of people who attempted to contribute to how people should be governed
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| Uniformitarianism vs. Catastrophism | Lara Anderson | | Dr. Travis Bradshaw | PHSC 201-A19 | For much of history‚ humans have grappled with the question: Where do we come from? Today there are two main houses of argument which have many different names. They are called secular and religious‚ evolutionists and creationists‚ humanists and theists. However‚ each house subscribes to its own idea of how the world has come about and progressed through history. The secular/evolutionist/humanist
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Kanban vs Scrum H ow to make the most of both Henrik Kniberg henrik.kniberg crisp.se Version 1.1 (2009-06-29) Deprecated version! Latest version is available at http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/kanban-scrum-minibook Backlog Develop Selected 3 2 Ongoing Done FLOW Deploy 1 Live :o) Kanban vs Scrum – how to make the best of both (Henrik Kniberg) Deprecated version! Latest version is available at http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/kanban-scrum-minibook This book has
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Man vs "Nature"? As I have read for class these past two assignments‚ I have been forced to face an important distinction that I think is often overlooked by many environmental advocates (a group of people which I have been known to associate myself with). The problem I would like to address‚ or at least bring to our classes attention is the murkiness that surrounds the word "nature". We often find ourselves (I am included in this) using the word nature to mean something along the lines of all that
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The article “Credentialing vs. Educating” by Jane Jacobs showed the credentialing’s purpose in higher education and how the credentialing affected Americans’ perspective of their future’s life. Additionally‚ she gave explanation about the appearance of “credentialing [as] an indirect legacy of the Great Depression of the 1930’s” because people noticed that credentialing was the vital prerequisite from rising out of poverty. (pg. 167) People wanted to get a degree for a better job. Jacobs
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Fiction Vs. Reality Animal Farm is a book that relates to everyday problems of leadership and authority. There is a stark correlation between fiction and reality in the book‚ highlighted by George Orwell through two characters that have power and use different manipulative techniques to secure different outcomes. In reality‚ Orwell uses the pigs to symbolize the powerful people in our society‚ such as Muammar Gaddafi‚ who manipulate their people using suppressive and alluring tactics. Through
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Athens Vs. Sparta Throughout the ancient world there were two dominating empires. (S) The Athenian City (polis) and the Spartan empire. These two cities were both powerful and famous but significantly different. However‚ the city of Athens was by far a much more influential and powerful city-state in comparison to Sparta. Although both the city-states had their own strengths such as their government‚ social structure and their military tactics‚ Athens was a pivotal city that still to this day effects
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