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    CHAPTER 4 DESIGN OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM 4.1. Description of Proposed Solution Based on my interview‚ observation‚ questionnaire‚ and my personal experience of having a treatment in Clinic XYZ‚ optimization of the current system is proposed. The proposed system will be moving the patients’ data from paper base into computer base. As mentioned on the previous chapter‚ the biggest problem of the current business process in Dental Clinic XYZ happened because they are still using paper based

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    of Doubt Throughout Meditation One in The Meditation of the First Philosophy‚ Descartes reflects on a number of falsehoods he has believed throughout his life. He does this to create a system in order to clarify whether they are true or false‚ so that he can build a basic structure from which future knowledge can be based. This approach is called Method of Doubt. Doubt is defined as a feeling of uncertainty. Descartes opens Mediation One by stating that if he wants to establish information that is

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    The Left Hand of Darkness remains relevant in the world of literature‚ as science fiction continues to endure and evolve as a genre and the philosophy of transcending barriers and dualism continues to be timeless and universal. With that in mind‚ I will investigate the question: How does Ursula K. Le Guin explore dualism and wholeness in her novel The Left Hand of Darkness? My essay will pursue the following approach of analysing the research question: Explore Le Guin’s choices appearing

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    written by Rene Descartes. Many philosophers look to this book for inspiration and for answers to many of life’s questions. One of these philosophers would be David Hume. Hume often did not share the same thoughts and beliefs as Descartes but uses his ideas on the origin of thought to further explain his own. The Meditations are written in order to answer one simple question‚ “what can we know for certain?” While this might seem like a very simple question to answer‚ Descartes takes a different

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    Rene Descartes Descartes never did a stroke of useful work in his life. At various times he described himself as a solider‚ a mathematician‚ a thinker and a gentleman. The last comes closest to describing his attitude toward life as well as his social status. Descartes was indisputably the most original philosopher to appear in the fifteen centuries following the death of Aristotle. Rene Descartes was born March 31‚ 1596‚ in the small town of La Haye‚ in the Creuse Valley

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    Descartes’ vs. Hospers Knowledge is an acquaintance with facts‚ truths‚ or principles‚ as from study of investigation and a familiarity or conversance‚ as with a particular subject or branch of learning. (3) Many philosophers have different perspectives of knowledge. Descartes’ believes that the only thing absolutely known is that you exist because you think. However‚ Hospers believes that there are different forms of knowing that must be proven with evidence. Descartes’ believes that you

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    Descartes’ First Meditation attempts to prove that everything can be called into doubt. However‚ his Cogito argument in his Second Meditation is successful in proving that we can know at least one thing for certain. In his First Meditations‚ Descartes begins a quest to establish a firm foundation for philosophy. To do this‚ he must demolish his opinions and start with a clean state. Descartes attempts to undermine the foundation behind all of his beliefs. He believes that if something can be doubted

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    Aptly subtitled “Of the Nature of the Human Mind‚ and That It Is More Easily Known Than the Body”‚ Descartes tasked himself with using philosophical reasoning in determining truths of the universe and of his own being. Motivated to justify that which he has held to be true‚ and to use those truths to find answers for questions that he poses both of the truths themselves and of his own existence‚ Descartes became suspicious of even the most basic elements of himself. Therefore‚ he needed to explore

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    Proposed Active Warden Model The covert channels are the intended network communication channels which leaks the secret information by exploiting process based workow. It use some sort of legitimate network communication strategies in order to make covert dialogue exchanges between the sender and the receiver parties by agreeing upon some predetermined communication workow. The covert channels are supposed to be legitimate to the rest of the network entities. Due to this other statistical analysis

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    In Meditation Six‚ Descartes argues the difference between substance of mind and matter. He points to distinct ideas for the inseparable essence of mind and sensation with its mistakenly confusing ideas‚ to a divisible body. This diminishes the human experience to that of maneuvered body haunted by some ineffable entity. The split between mind and body as separate entities lies within Descartes characterization of material and immaterial substances. The mind is an immaterial substance which thinks

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