History vocab. Pd.6 by Brian Briggs Loess- an unstratified usually buff to yellowish brown loamy deposit found in North America‚ Europe‚ and Asia and believed to be chiefly deposited by the wind Dike- Bank‚ usually of earth‚ constructed to control or confine water. Dikes were purely defensive at first but later became a means to acquire polders (tracts of land reclaimed from a body of water through the construction of offshore dikes roughly parallel to the shoreline). After a dike is built‚
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John Locke distinguished‚ in his Essay‚ “real essence” from “nominal essence.” Nominal essence‚ according to Locke‚ is the “abstract Idea to which the Name is annexed (III.vi.2).” Thus‚ the nominal essence of the name ‘gold’‚ Locke said‚ “is that complex Idea the word Gold stands for‚ let it be‚ for instance‚ a Body yellow‚ of a certain weight‚ malleable‚ fusible‚ and fixed.” In contrast‚ the real essence of gold is “the constitution of the insensible parts of that Body‚ on which those Qualities
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TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1: Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2 2: What is Irrationalism?............................................................................. 2 3: Origins of Irrationalism……………………………………………………………………………. 2 3.1: The Limits of Rationalism……………………………………………………………………… 2 3.2: The Religious Issue……………………………………………………………………………….. 3 4: Historical Synopsis…………………………………………………………………………………… 3 4.1: Ancient Greek Era………………………………………………………………………………… 4 4.2: Medieval Mysticism……………………………………………………………………………
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Descartes VS Hume René Descartes and David Hume touched upon epistemology on the same question‚ “where does human knowledge come from?” They both came to very different conclusions. Descartes claimed that our knowledge came from human reasoning alone and this is an absolute certainty principle. This faculty of reasoning is innate tool that came with human species. He called this tool‚ “mind‚” which is separated from our body. Hume on the other hand‚ claimed that human learned from observing the
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AFRICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE AND SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: AN ETHICAL PARADIGM By Alloy S. Ihuah PhD. Department of Religion and Philosophy Benue State University Makurdi. Nigeria. alloyihuah@yahoo.com 08034017856;08026242031 (i) Introduction African indigenous knowledge system expressed in proverbs‚ names and songs etc. are conscious reflections on specific situations‚ events and experiences in the lives of the people
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Online Learning Center defines the term environmental ethicsas a search for moral values and ethical principles in human relations with the natural world. The branch of philosophy that deals with values in general is known as axiology‚ and ethics‚ a subdivision of axiology‚ is more or less concerned with moral values‚ or non- moral values as they relate to moral values. Environmental ethics also has to do with the issue of responsible personal conduct with respect to natural landscape landscapes
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epistemological assumptions‚ different ways of understanding and contributes to different ideas about power and the limits of power in organization. Ontology and Epistemology are intertwined‚ as these philosophical choices explain basic differences between the perspectives of organization theory (Hatch & Cunliffe 2006). Both ontology and epistemology establish unique research methods‚ interest and beliefs even though they position themselves differently. Ontology refers to the objects of knowledge that
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sought in natural science that is to ‘understand Nature’. It leaves what is outside nature or super-nature to theology or metaphysics.1 Renaissance separated philosophy from dogmatic theology.2 The ‘philosophy of nature’ remained heavily dependent on the older metaphysics of the Greeks. Modern philosophy turned the older metaphysics to a more empirically grounded metaphysics.3 b) The key to modernity in both Descates and Kant lay in their application of mathematics to the philosophy of nature.
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Famous Thinkers Paper Stuart Mackey PHL 458 November 5‚ 2012 Lia Leon Margolin Famous Thinkers Paper In today’s society‚ kids are faced with many distractions‚ such as partying and having fun‚ which can prevent them from learning about history’s great thinkers. Great thinkers have been around for thousands of years. They range from Confucius (551-471 BC) and Plato (428 to c. 348 BC) to more modern great thinkers of Bill Gates (1955-present) and Richard Rorty (1931-2007). According to "Do
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the historical context of its uprising. The foundations of Scepticism can be credited back to the early works of Pyrho of Ellis (360-272 BC) and Sextus Empiricus (2nd and 3rd Century AD). Largely in response to the dogmatic philosophies and the epistemologies of certain philosophies‚ I.e. Aristotelian‚ Epicurean and stocicim ( William 1999)‚ philosophical skepticism aimed to study the nature of knowledge by asking questions such as how can one know? Of what can be One certain? (Kubitz 1939). Knowledge
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