of philosophy is discussed in practical terms. Why is it important? What purpose does it serve and what reasons do people have for pursuing an education in it? How can this affect my life? The major branches of philosophy‚ which are Metaphysics‚ Epistemology‚ Ethics‚ Political & Social‚ Aesthetics and Logic‚ are also discussed along with the contributing questions specific to each branch and what each branch focuses on. Philosophical Areas of Inquiry‚ Personal Relations and Application As stated by
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about humankind‚ about epistemology‚ about ethics and how I came to form my own personal worldview. While deliberating my in relationship to the worldview expressed by a secular short story‚ “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry. According to an article written by Keith Drury‚ Assistant
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Knowledge be defined? Explain and defend your answer. Knowledge is Functional Defining knowledge has been an ongoing debate for philosophers in the field of epistemology. To come to a conclusion about if knowledge can be defined or not we need to look at theories of knowledge and the different views philosophers who have studied epistemology have. To define knowledge one must find a definition that states‚ what is necessary for knowledge as well as sufficient and cannot be challenged by counter examples
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discovering‚ formatting‚ and indexing by taking into account the heterogeneous‚ ubiquitous and ambiguous nature of mining service information available over the Internet. The framework incorporates the technologies of semantic focused crawling and ontology learning‚ on order to maintain the performance of
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Natural Language Processing Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science‚ artificial intelligence‚ and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages. As such‚ NLP is related to the area of human–computer interaction. Many challenges in NLP involve natural language understanding -- that is‚ enabling computers to derive meaning from human or natural language input. An automated online assistant providing customer
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points). Both cases are a form of an alert identification subsystem belonging to the parent HELP System. Furthermore‚ both cases did not explicitly state vocabulary and ontology used. However‚ I can infer based on my knowledge in the field now that diseases‚ diagnoses‚ laboratory and procedures follow ICD 10‚ SNOMED‚ LOINC and CPT ontology for coding and that interoperability is achieved by employing the HL7 language. HL7 encodes the patient’s health related data. The overall goal of both cases was to
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DIFFERENT CULTURES‚ DIFFERENT RATIONALITIES? Peter Winch ’s remarkable essay‚ ’Understanding a Primitive Society ’ (Winch‚ 1964) raised several deep and troubling questions and offered some no less deep and troubling answers. It was the essay of a philosopher inspired by Wittgenstein‚ who had questioned the very idea of a social science‚ reflecting upon and‚ indeed‚ criticizing the interpretation of witchcraft in one of the classics of twentieth-century anthropology‚ Evans-Pritchard ’s Witchcraft
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justice‚” (1006) in “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans‚” an article aptly named after an iconic New Orleans song. He was innovative‚ and committed to the identity politics‚ dignity and liberation of all oppressed peoples. Using "blues epistemology" as a medium to discover not only counter narratives but also alternative development visions. He claimed that “the Katrina tragedy was a blues moment” (1006) because it revealed the “absence of social justice and
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Constructivism is a theory of knowledge (epistemology)[1] that argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas. During infancy‚ it is an interaction between their experiences and their reflexes or behavior-patterns. Piaget called these systems of knowledge schemata. Constructivism is not a specific pedagogy‚ although it is often confused with constructionism‚ an educational theory developed by Seymour Papert‚ inspired by constructivist
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free will‚ in what sense abstract objects can be said to exist‚ and how it is that brains are able to generate minds. 4. Epistemology Epistemology is the study of knowledge itself. Epistemologists ask‚ for instance‚ what criteria must be satisfied for something we believe to count as something we know‚ and even what it means for a proposition to be true. Epistemology is sometimes referred to as the “theory of knowledge.” 5. Axiology Axiology is philosophical the study of value; the investigation
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