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Essays 121 - 150
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...
at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...
This research report examines the theories of Descartes and how knowledge and the intellect relate to experiential knowledge. The ...
combining the areas of reform epistemology, philosophy and psychology, with the intent to prove that intelligent virtue is the tru...
In six pages Chisholm's theory of knowledge and the reliance on memory and the senses as sources of this knowledge are discussed. ...
experiences. At these early stages, the child does not have conscious awareness of the process of learning (Montessori, 1994). M...
In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...
In six pages this paper denotes similarities and differences in the philosophies of Plato and Hume regarding God, morality, and hu...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
do believe that knowledge comes from testing, such as in science, and has little to do with experience. This is because experience...
at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...
Mans understanding of his world is based within a dual foundation of finite concepts and varying interpretation. Mathematics and ...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
one could say that what if one collects a number of red apples, but they are all different kinds. There are Macintosh, red Delicio...
This essay responds to several issues concerning King David. What was the Davidic covenant. Since David sinned, why is he consider...
warming. This has been seen by many as a claim rather than a fact, arguing that there is insufficient proof, it was this reasoning...
obviously cannot be separated from the field of mathematics. How do the specific techniques and rigors of higher-order mathematic...