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A Discussion of the Pronouncement I Think

a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

Royal Society and Baconianism

inaccurate: the problem is, he asserts, that such critics have not understood the Baconian method in the first place. He states th...

Sustainable Development and Mainstream Development Thinking

way that promotes his own health and welfare; however, from the environmentalists point of view, humanity has damaged and consumed...

An Examination of the Developmental Psychology of Piaget

from another in the same age group due to peer associations, family problems or biological variations. This is certainly a valid m...

Computer Viruses and Critical Thinking

do in order to combat this horrendous situation? First, in order to resolve the difficulty, the critical thinking model should be ...

Critical Thinking, Making Decisions, and Fallacies

1998). Thus, if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true (The Center for Informed Decision Making, 1998). Makamson offe...

The Conflict Theory of Karl Marx and Views of Terrorism

since history was first recorded (OConnor, 2004). Acts of terrorism can be found in the Bible and they are recorded in Roman histo...

Beauty, Consumption and Habits of Thought

If we look at the way that conspicuous consumption today and in the past there is still an element of class differentiation in the...

Hannah Arendt's Theories on Politics and Thinking

it applies to morality, he suggested that morality is dictated by reason to oneself. This, then, is the power of reason over objec...

Middle Ages, Freedom of Thought, and Dogma

One of the quests that sprung from employing the notion of feudalism was to create the vassal/lord union as a means by which to es...

U.S. and Thoughts on the Great Depression

period of time that argued that the economic policies of the government were too conservative and that it was largely at fault for...

Nursing and Reflective Thinking Development

as a solution to the problem of developing reflective skills, Ferrario defines reflective thinking as: a) analyzing, synthesizing,...

The Development of the Fyborg

situations in terms of past experiences. Capra (1997) refers to this pattern as the "Computer Model of Cognition" (p. 65), ...

Strategic Thinking and Its Practical Applications

of a statistical area that has many goals. In addition to needing to meet specific deadlines to fulfill filing requirements and su...

Assessing Logic in an Appendix

a quite reasonable approach to making the bidding process effective. The entire bid process already is time-consuming, delaying t...

Connection Between Making Decisions and Critical Thinking

looks upon his world as a direct reflection of him, his values, beliefs, experiences, conditions and development; contrarily, huma...

H.G. Wells' 'Time Machine' and Adolf Hitler's Thoughts

feat of time travel, for example, through the wonders of modern science. After years of meticulous work he has managed to create ...

Nursing and Critical Thinking

should be emphasized that some nurses see their function in a more spiritual manner. They take their role as a calling to help tho...

Critical Thinking and Language

t hat has been linked to complex problem solving and other forms of higher cognition, such as deriving abstract principles and cha...

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Radical Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

Eras of Enlightenment and Romanticism

The text suggests that waking and daylight are most conducive to logical thought. Popes analysis of mans position in the chain of ...

Corporate Sector and Cultural Diversity

twenty-five percent African-American, ten percent Asian-American and seventeen percent Hispanic -- had plans to leave their curren...

Critical Thinking, Elementary Grades, and Music Education

the research linking music instruction with developing higher-order reasoning skills is still controversial. Therefore, there is a...

Consideration of Medical Negligence

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

Humanism, Structuralism, and the Individual

to language. For example, there would not be the idea of darkness without an understanding of what it means to have light. Therefo...

Socrates' Thoughts and Influence

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

Patient Choice and Medical Negligence

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

Rationalism and Empiricism

"empiricists claim that nothing is in the mind that did not come through the senses." Such a claim would suggest that people are l...

An Analysis of The Long Discourses Of The Buddha: A Translation Of The Digha Nikaya

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...