Semiotics for Beginners Daniel Chandler Glossary of Key Terms * Abduction: This is a term used by Peirce to refer to a form of inference (alongside deduction and induction) by which we treat a signifier as an instance of a rule from a familiar code‚ and then infer what it signifies by applying that rule. * Aberrant decoding: Eco’s term referring to decoding a text by means of a different code from that used to encode it. See also: Codes‚ Decoding‚ Encoding and decoding
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’’ If there is no struggle‚ there is no progress.’’ - This rather condensed yet very truthful quote by the former slave‚ Frederick Douglass‚ quite completely epitomizes both the unbending devotion of the entrepreneurs and hardship of the working-class that undeniably defined the entire era of the Industrial Revolution. Assuredly‚ such struggle did give rise to immense progress‚ which brought about extensive advancements to the existing technologies‚ social sciences and standards of living as well
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On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme Author(s): Donald Davidson Source: Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association‚ Vol. 47‚ (1973 1974)‚ pp. 5-20 Published by: American Philosophical Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3129898 Accessed: 08/08/2008 15:13 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use
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Anth 202 Course Overview: Riddle of the Sphinx: The question is sometimes more important than the answer What walks on 4‚2‚3 legs – thinking about humans being as animal. Indexicality ( of 2+2+2=6 then this is an indexical relationship) Indexicality: by looking at what the different parts make up humans‚ we get a sense of the bigger picture. 4 is nature ( what ways are we like animals?) ‚ while 2 is culture We are not the world; we represent it Where does the line (cane) mediate us form
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Sexual Discrimination of Transgendered Individuals September 2‚ 2013 Introduction In recent cases‚ there have been major victories settled against companies regarding transgender rights. In the first case‚ the details had been kept confidential as part of the settlement agreement‚ however‚ a transgender women filed a suit against her Maryland employer for verbal and physical harassment (McDonough‚ 2013). The woman had filed a complaint with the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2012 stating
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likely pleasure is to be followed by more pleasure) Purity Extent (how many people it affects) Later in the 19th century‚ Bentham’s God son John Stuart Mill modified his theory. Mill was a leading politician and philosopher of his day‚ advocating radical and liberal causes such as the equality of women. He regarded Utilitarianism as an important but flawed approach to ethics. While Bentham had regarded all pleasures as ‘commensurate’
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W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were the two dominant Black leaders of American history during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both men had the same goals--eradicating racism‚ segregation‚ and discrimination against their race. However‚ the means to achieve such ends were vastly different‚ thus the paradox of these Promethean figures have been revisited 100 years later as Black people seek to grapple with their ideas even in the midst of a 40-year‚ largely self-inflicted
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Moral Relativism Moral relativism is the view that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint; for instance‚ that of a culture or a historical period‚ and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others. It has often been associated with other claims about morality: notably‚ the thesis that different cultures often exhibit radically different moral values; the denial that there are universal moral values shared by every human society; and the insistence
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ethics can have a substantial impact on how decisions are made. In order for decisions to be ethically defensible it must contain specific elements. The basic elements in ethical decisions are ground rules. Ground rules can be composed of informal ethical believes of business ethics. The determining factor of an ethical decision will be based on which ground rule is used. An ethically defensible decision includes a number of important elements. Most crucial are the ground rules that underlie such
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evidence in support of the thesis that porn addiction‚ especially when accompanied by compulsive masturbation over a long period‚ alters brain chemistry and can eventually produce brain damage. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is an intellectually defensible thesis for which there is now a growing body of scientific evidence. Perhaps the quickest way to tame and tranquilize an unruly nation is to turn its citizens into sex addicts: for just as children are easily taken in by predators who tempt them
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