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2002 General Elections in Turkey, Negative Publicity, and Victorious AKP

message and impression of unity. There had been a great deal of negative publicity and actions by the competing parties who did no...

The Truth In Lending Act

FRB amended Regulation Z to implement section 1204 of the Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987 (Farm Credit Administration, 19...

Inductive and Metaphysical Skepticism and Meeting Their Challenges

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

Knowledge As Viewed by Rene Descartes

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Peter Kreeft/Fundamentals of Faith

one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...

Organizational Communication and Personal Power

have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...

Peace and Conflicts

speaking of governments that are founded strongly on their religious beliefs such as Ireland. This is something that Liech...

GUCCI: The Naked Truth Or Just In Fashion?

argued as viable and attractive to marketers for a number of reasons, it may attract voyeurs, there could be a shock value, the fo...

Fallacious, Informal Proof Argument Defending A Grade

a B by virtue of having the same answers as the student who actually did his own work on the final (Cohen, 2004)....

Hume's Ideas about the Distinct and Continued Existence of Objects

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

Plato's "Allegory Of The Cave" And Francis Bacon's "The Four Idols" - How We Know What We Know

smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...

Contrasting and Comparing Pragmatic Truth Conception and Bertrand Russell

this approach illustrates how the pragmatist truth "was an entity which evolves and the force which drives its evolution is its pr...

Body and Mind Distinction

Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...

Rene Descartes' Dualism of Mind and Body

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

How Benjamin Argued Against Descartes

and truth, Benjamin (2002) surmises how those who have invested both time and pains in its postulations should partake of a greate...

Evaluating the Dualism of Rene Descartes

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

Honesty and Ethics in Philosophy

commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...

Personal Identity of David Hume

or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...

Examination of False Memories

an even more dangerous approach to getting at the truth in a court case, being that the fairly recent trend toward psychotherapy h...

Section IX of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

Examining the Truth of a Proverb - Children Learn Prejudice, It Is Not Inborn

up to possess their parents values. Or a research may address what kind of negative events in ones life affected their prejudices....

Zoo Visits and Changing Attitudes of Children

with some of its most enjoyable elements of entertainment, all at the cost of the animals life. A staple of Americana, the ...

Sensory Perceptions and Descartes' Argument

is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...

Life's Meaning in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the ears of company officials. Marlow accepts this mission, travels upriver, and confronts the horror that Kurtz has become. In ot...

Aristotle and Rene Descartes Define Philosophy

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

Veritas and Aletheia

phrase" (The vocabulary of ontology: truth (from aletheia to veritas), 2006-hereafter vocabulary of ontology). That is, "instead ...

Truth and History

workers who smoked at their jobs, and no fire extinguishers (Triangle fire, 2006). At approximately 4.45 p.m. on March 25, 1911, ...

Existence of God and Philosophical Proof

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...