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World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

Michel de Montaigne Essays

out of these thoughts. The essays are deliberately unstructured,...

Power, Knowledge, and Management

relationship is basically dependent on which side determines the objectives which are to be achieved and means which are to be emp...

Knowledge and Suffering

(1986) comments upon the concept of balance, he notes that knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ide...

An Appraisal of W.H. Smith Retail Outlets' Managers and Assistant Managers

HRM issues, such as change management, organizational learning and quality programs. However, these particular sectors of commerc...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

Skepticism Philosophy

(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...

Knowledge and the Views of the Empiricists and the Rationalists

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

Book 4 of Plato's Republic, 'Justice of the City'

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

Three Questions of Philosophy

This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...

Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

Overview of Human Relations Managers

In four pages this paper is written from the perspective of a human relations manager in order to assist students in gaining great...

Evolution Theory of Charles Darwin

admittedly the fossil record was far from complete, nor was our understanding of it incontestable, we began to consider a process ...

Education and an Application of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Perspective on Knowledge

In five pages this paper discusses how Rousseau's views regarding learning and knowledge can be practically applied to contemporar...

Regulation and its Consequences

In five pages politics and knowledge are discussed in a consideration of regulations and their consequences. Three sources are ci...

A Review of Human Knowledge Classical And Contemporary Approaches

rA 5 page review of the book by Paul K Moser. Traditional philosophic constructs of knowledge is contrasted with contemporary con...

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...

Transcendental Deduction and Immanuel Kant

In nine pages this essay discusses metaphysics, a priori and synthetic forms of knowledge, transcendental deduction, and metaphysi...

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...

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...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Character of Gertrude

essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...

An Organization and Adding Value

as Gap and Nike (Mason, 2000). In some cases, the charges have been valid. Many Asian and other nations see no real...

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 ...

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...