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Rationalism and the Concepts of Rene Descartes and David Hume

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

Knowing About How to Use Energy and Life Differences

and carbon dioxide annually into the atmosphere, there is a great need to develop a safer, more environmentally-friendly source by...

Europe's Disenchantment Period

In a paper of fifteen pages an examination of European history includes the Middle Ages, Baroque period, and The Enlightenment in ...

State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

Memory Role and Personal Identity

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

Knowledge Motif in All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren and Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

The more involved Willie becomes in politics, the more corrupt he becomes. This is because he acquires knowledge on how the game i...

Nursing as a Profession and its Distinguishing Features

exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...

Testimonial Knowledge and Robert Audi

some strategy that starts from other beliefs that we have. Inference, for example, is such a strategy. One might infer that it is ...

The Ethics of Belief by W.K. Clifford

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

Case Study of JK Potter Supermarket

facilitate this need (Tuomi, 1999). Where this takes place at head office level, such as with marketing professionals, it is faire...

Scientific Knowledge Foundations

and bring the concept back to reality, most people know someone who gets wonderful grades in school, but does not have a lick of c...

Aristotle and Plato on Knowledge

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

Knowledge Management

are all examples of KM being used today" (Swartz, 2003, p. 53). Hilson explained: "KM refers to the collection and sharing of info...

Knowledge and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

Self Knowledge and Confessions

book is the actual confession, which turns out to be a confession to murder and many other misdeeds. This idea of knowledge is an ...

Modern Agriculture and the Benefits of Marine Biology

source. However, the commercial fish food necessary for the tilapia is: "... expensive, spoils rapidly, and is difficult to transp...

Business and the Creation of Value

to be made up of push factors and pull factors. The pull factors may be seen in the attraction that new markets hold, such as new ...

A Communities of Practice The Organizational Frontier Article Analysis

to customers, create new markets, rapidly develop new products and dominate emergent technologies" (p. 2). Basically, he s...

The Kid and Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

Schools and the Value of Knowledge

school the least stressful (Mangione and Speth, 1998). Children do much better in their studies when they have achieved a smooth t...

Corporate Culture, Leadership, and Price Waterhouse Coopers

that could be shared and disseminated (E-commerce Awards, 2000). In addition, knowledge about clients, skills, expertise, methods ...

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

Meaning of the 'New Economy'

on knowledge and input rather than existing wealth and political power. The markets themselves are undergoing rapid change. This c...

Overview of Shipwreck Archaeology

and dispose of exceptional budgets (Anonymous, no date). Excavating the downed vessel is another matter entirely, inasmuch as dec...

Utilizing Employee Knowledge To Gain A Competitive Advantage

as know what. This is the knowledge collection stage and the discipline needed to achieve that information. Similar to an individu...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

United Kingdom's Knowledge Based Economy

In 1998 Chase predicted that the world economy would be undergoing a rapid period of change with the new knowledge based economy t...

The Knowledge Curve in the context of Change Management

information to bring value to the company, to clients and to the general public (Havens and Knapp, 1999). Also of issue in determi...

Sex, Sexuality, and Sociology

and blatant bias in much qualitative research - the very form that can best discover attitudes and perceptions - has prevented muc...

Hume and Descartes Compared

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...