following her rape‚ Marianne Mulvaney becomes extremely religious. To remind herself of her religion and her own guilt for being raped‚ her brother Judd speaks of what repeats to herself saying‚ “As if this litany were the most basic‚ the most irreducible of knowable fact. As if it were all that might be granted her by way of understanding...her sole solace‚ her sole hope‚ was to cast this rotted net out again...to discover what truths it might contain. But they were always the same truths. I was
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as character‚ a character that you must stay loyal to “The Cuba of Garcia’s novel is both the sum and the part of the characters’ unions and sunderings‚ and sometimes the cause of their rendings. It is also both the product and the dividend‚ the irreducible core reality in whose terms they all exist” (Vasquez article). Vasquez describes how Cuba separated the family to go in different directions but at the same time it helps them to develop as a character throughout the whole
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In establishing the presence of synthetic a-priori‚ Kant unleashed a new area of transcendental philosophy. The way in which Kant did this‚ however‚ assumes that judgements cannot be analytic a-posteriori. According to Kant‚ the limits of experience are transcendental; in this manner he believes himself to have to obey unknowable laws of thought. On the other hand‚ Hume did not believe in these limits. Synthetic a-priori knowledge is the pre-supposition which allows the transcendental philosopher
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Elements of Information Theory Thomas M. Cover‚ Joy A. Thomas Copyright 1991 John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Print ISBN 0-471-06259-6 Online ISBN 0-471-20061-1 Elements of Information Theory Elements of Information Theory Thomas M. Cover‚ Joy A. Thomas Copyright 1991 John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Print ISBN 0-471-06259-6 Online ISBN 0-471-20061-1 WILEY SERIES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS Donald L. Schilling‚ Editor City College of New York Digital Telephony‚ 2nd Edition John Bellamy Elements of
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1. John Earman Philosopher 2. John Earman (born 1942) is a philosopher of physics. He is an emeritus professor in the History and Philosophy of Science department at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also taught at UCLA‚ the Rockefeller University‚ and the University of Minnesota‚ and was president of the Philosophy of Science Association. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1968.[1] 3. Born: March 30‚ 1942 (age 72) 4. Education: Princeton University (1968) 5. Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship
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Langue and Parole John Phillips The distinction between the French words‚ langue (language or tongue) and parole (speech)‚ enters the vocabulary of theoretical linguistics with Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics‚ which was published posthumously in 1915 after having been collocated from student notes. La langue denotes the abstract systematic principles of a language‚ without which no meaningful utterance (parole) would be possible. The Course manifests a shift from the search
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Realism‚ as a way of interpreting international relations has often been conceived to be closely tied to the Cold War. Realism‚ rooted in the experience of World War II and the Cold War‚ is said to be undergoing a crisis of confidence largely because the lessons adduced do not convincingly apply directly to the new realities of international relations in the twenty-first century (Clinton 2007:1) Worse still‚ if policymakers steadfastly adhere to realist precepts‚ they will have to navigate “the
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Victorian England‚ especially London had a severe problem with poverty. Many people in London lived in poverty. Eliza is one of these many people that lived in poverty during the Victorian era in London. In the play Pygmalion and musical My Fair Lady‚ the main character‚ Eliza‚ is shown to be poor and living in poverty. Both the play and musical show how she lived in poverty and how her poorness hindered her from attaining a job. Since she cannot speak well she can’t get a job as a lady in a flower
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A brief inspection into Australian Materialism: The views of the Australian materialists on the identification of the mind and the body‚ simply stated‚ are that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain. Henceforth these philosophers (for the purpose of this article I will be referring in particular to Smart and Armstrong’s views on the matter) assume the position that all processes of the mind and experiences are due to physical reactions occurring in
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General Studies Unit Kaduna State University‚ Kaduna Kaduna State‚ Nigeria GST 203 HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE LECTURE NOTES COURSE INTRODUCTION: This course is designed with the objectives of not only educating students on the historical developments that have taken place in the fields of science and technology and the philosophical basis on which achievements were made but to stimulate discuss and interests in the minds of students irrespective of the course they offer in the
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