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be effective new entrants. In pharmaceutical related industries there are high startup costs, research and development can be cost...

two-thirds of which are in the U.S. (Biesada 2006). Besides its own stores, Wal-Mart holds a majority position in Seiyu, Co., Ltd,...

In ten pages healthcare economics is discussed in an overview that includes planning, rational planning, costs, efficiency, equity...

cars in year 4. This is a luxury market, and therefore less price sensitive, whilst it is good to keep car stocks to a minimum thi...

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...

In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

accept the cogito at face value. It is only after answering an objection, that he comes up with a conclusion, which is that while ...

way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...

consciousness where the mind is not aware of anything in particular. During mediation, breathing slows and practitioners tend to p...

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...

one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...

argued that this is true, Plato, but let us bring forth two other philosophers to create a better atmosphere for this discourse. ...

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...