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In five pages Hume's attack on the self or personal identity is discussed as represented in A Treatise of Human Nature and also co...
or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...
However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...
In fifteen pages Karl Popper's 1934 The Logic of Scientific Theory is examined in terms of the proof and falsification theories de...
Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...
noticing that people were gathering together and talking, and the sense of uneasiness and anxiety kept increasing. Finally I decid...
the true freedom of all people that were the most patriotic. Patriotism is something that ultimately means you believe in your c...
are occasionally updated, which means the activist is still under secret surveillance. Considering the culture of fear in which Am...
were synonymous. In his investigations into science, Aristotle knew of inductive reasoning, but he relied heavily on use of the de...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
irrational attitude towards the customs of social life, and the corresponding rigidity of those customs" (Popper quoted in McInnes...
In five pages this paper examines Clifford's claim that insufficient evidence leads to lack of believability in a discussion that ...
In eight pages this paper considers Karl Popper's thoughts on Galileo's theories, who himself had been critical of Ptolemy and Ari...
with the use of a random sample, one can say that a conclusion may be drawn. If it is found that children will think like their pa...
that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...
other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...
that seem to drive us to distrust change and the inevitable occurrences that are associated with such. "We seem fixated on structu...
In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of David Hume and Thomas Aquinas regarding religion and ultimate...
In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
New therapists or counselors will continue to develop who they are through additional study, discussions, and most of all, experie...
Social psychologists have identified at least four types of identity theories. This paper discusses two of them, identity as in pe...
In eight pages Hume's counter philosophical arguments to causality are examined with supporting evidence offered by Immanuel Kant ...
In eight pages Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding serves as a springboard to a discussion regarding the Scottish philos...
of participating in Forms consists (as he holds in the Phaedo) in taking the Forms apart, with the result that nothing remains: 1)...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
the considerations surrounding his concepts of the mind and he supports his contentions with direct demonstrations of the applicab...
and smells that delight the senses. Beds of daffodils and tulips combine with the fragrance of roughly 3,000 Japanese cherry trees...
is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...