philosophers include: the Ionians who attempted to formulate materialist explanations of reality‚ the Eleatics‚ who proposed various intellectual conundrums about the nature of being and thought and the Sophists‚ who taught rhetoric and were an important social force (as their contemporary intellectual descendants are today). Socrates‚ Plato and Aristotle represent almost a school of thought. Socrates taught Plato‚ though he did not write down his teachings. After he was executed‚ Plato did write
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specific situations‚ events and experiences in the lives of the people. For the African‚ observation and experience are sources of knowledge that have immediate practical results in such areas as agriculture‚ medicine‚ crime prevention and remedy among others. It is no longer fiction that‚ our ancestors‚ whose main occupation was farming‚ knew of the system of rotation of crops; they knew when to allow a piece of land to lie fallow for a while; they had some knowledge of the technology of food processing
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“Empiricism‚ Semantics and Ontology” by Rudolf Carnap I. The Problem of Abstract Entities Empiricists attempt to limit themselves to nominalistic language‚ a language not containing references to abstract entities such as properties‚ classes‚ relations‚ numbers‚ propositions‚ etc. They treat mathematics as a mere calculus wherein no interpretation is given or can be given. However‚ abstract entities are impossible to avoid for some scientific contexts. The theory of meaning and truth is the problem
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Introduction Prior to attending the Women’s Studies 5363 Feminist/Womanist Epistemology class‚ I did not have a clear understand of the distinction between epistemology and methodology. After taking this class‚ my understanding is much clearer. Epistemology‚ the philosophy of knowledge or the study of knowledge and belief‚ is concerned with creation of knowledge‚ conditions of knowledge‚ sources of knowledge‚ structure of knowledge‚ limits of knowledge‚ and the distribution of knowledge. Methodology
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Ontology Nursing ontology focuses on thinking about what is best for the patient. Those who join the nursing profession most likely do so because they genuinely care about people and have a drive to help and heal others. Ontology is a way of being and doing (Chinn & Kramer‚ 2015). In simpler terms nursing ontology can be viewed as the unified lens which nurses look through. Further‚ the ontology of nursing describes what is most characteristic and fundamental to nursing practice (Flaming‚ 2004)
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Final Paper Roni Daniel December 10‚ 2012 Dr. Kathy Downey University of Phoenix PHL/716 Epistemology‚ or the study of knowledge‚ requires the scholar analyze the what‚ how‚ and why’s of their own knowledge. Asking these questions of themselves is essentially applying that which they have learned. There are different origins of knowledge as conceptualized by philosophers‚ educators‚ and scientists. Early philosophers defined knowledge as “justified true belief” (Cooper‚ pg. 23). In order
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IMPORTANT BANKING TERMS 1. Balance of Trade : The value of a country’s exports minus the value of its imports. Unless specified as the balance of merchandise trade‚ it normally incorporates trade in services‚ including earnings (interest‚ dividends‚ etc.) on financial assets. 2. Balance of Payments : A list of all of a country’s international transactions for a given time period‚ usually one year. Payments into the country (receipts) are entered as positive numbers‚ called credits; Payments
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LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND THE ABSURDITY OF METAPHYSICS PRESENTED BY: AKOMOLAFE OLUWATOBA M. MATRIC NO: 187189 COURSE CODE: PHI 702 COURSE TITLE: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY LECTURER IN CHARGE: Dr. Afolayan LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND THE ABSURDITY OF METAPHYSICS NATURE OF METAPHYSICS In everyday discourse‚ “Metaphysics” is at times given a derogative connotation. A view is termed metaphysical
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PHILISOPHICAL INQUIRY: What is philosophy? “The love of wisdom.” Metaphysics: the theory of reality. What is real? Epistemology: the theory of knowledge. What does it mean to “know?” Value-theory: the study of value. What gives something value...over something else? Logic: The principles of right reasoning. What principles do we use? All of these do not stand independent from each other...they all mix. September 25: Abstractions: CH9 Is Fido an abstraction? Dog is a category
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Bootstrapping Ontologies for Web Services Aviv Segev‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ and Quan Z. Sheng‚ Member‚ IEEE Abstract—Ontologies have become the de-facto modeling tool of choice‚ employed in many applications and prominently in the semantic web. Nevertheless‚ ontology construction remains a daunting task. Ontological bootstrapping‚ which aims at automatically generating concepts and their relations in a given domain‚ is a promising technique for ontology construction. Bootstrapping an ontology based on a set
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