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Aristotle

Plato was a philosopher who had been a student of Socrates. He formed the first known “university” called the Academy. Plato’s most widely known work is The Republic and his most famous idea is the Theory of Forms1-3. Plato in his Theory of Forms believed that while one’s present life ...

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Ontological And Cosmological A

Most people have not witnessed or experienced God and therefore are confused about its existence. In Western theology, three theories have emerged to demonstrate the existence of God. These theories are the ontological argument, the cosmological argument, and the teleological argument. St. ...

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How Should An Economist View The Society?

? How can the distinction between philosophers and scientists be made? In the article, “A Challenge to Scientific Economics”, Louis Uchitelle focuses on the question of how an economist should view the world. Should the economists be satisfied with the approximations of the real world or should ...

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Albert Einstein

Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1874. Before his first birthday, his family had moved to Munich where young Albert's father, Hermann Einstein, and uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. He was fortunate to have an excellent family with which he held a strong relationship. ...

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Buddhism

For over 2000 years has existed as an organized religion. By religion we mean that it has a concept of the profane, the sacred, and approaches to the sacred. It has been established in India, China, Japan and other eastern cultures for almost 2000 years and has gained a strong foothold in North ...

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Ontological And Cosmological Arguments Of God's Existence

Most people have not witnessed or experienced God and therefore are confused about its existence. In Western theology, three theories have emerged to demonstrate the existence of God. These theories are the ontological argument, the cosmological argument, and the teleological argument. St. ...

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What Is Postmodernism

In trying to define exactly what post-modernism is I shall firstly briefly consider some of the events and thinking that led up to the development of this particular school of social theory. I shall then consider some of the common strands of thinking in postmodernism concentrating mainly on the ...

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Disruptive Technology

The term "disruptive technology" as coined by Christensen (1997) refers to a new technology having lower cost and performance measured by traditional criteria, but having higher ancillary performance. Christensen finds that disruptive technologies may enter and expand emerging market niches, ...

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Thinking Critically With Psychological Science

Module 2: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science Mr. Davis Objective 1: * Hindsight Bias the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it; also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon; associated with psychologists Paul Slovic and Baruch ...

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Green Aid in India and Zimbabwe - Conserving Whose Community?

Green Aid in India and Zimbabwe - Conserving Whose Community? Abstract What happens when global institutions try to assist community conservation in some of the world's least industrialised areas? Among the `cutting edge' projects grant-aided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF, a World ...

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Global Warming In North America

GLOBAL WARMING IN NORTH AMERICA The vast North American continent ranges from the lush sub-tropical climate of Florida to the frozen ice and tundra of the Arctic. Within these extremes are two wealthy industrialized countries with diverse ecosystems at risk. Yet the United States and Canada are ...

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Empiricism

I will explain in the following paper why I believe that realism and instrumentalism are erroneous approaches to science and why seems to be the more valid approach. I believe that truth is relative to language. The word theory in greek means “to be in front of”. Our science is ...

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Galileo Galilei

was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa.” (1:1) “His father, Vincenzo Galilei, belonged to a noble family of straitened fortune.” (2:1) Galileo had an “aptitude for mathematical and mechanical pursuits, but his parents, wishing to turn him aside from studies which promised no substantial return, ...

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Alchemy

: The science by aid of which the chemical philosophers of medieval times attempted to transmute the baser metals into gold or silver. There is considerable divergence of opinion as to the etymology of the word, but it would seem to be derived from the Arabic al=the, and kimya=chemistry, which in ...

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Church And State

Period 4 Research paper The theory of evolution is at odds with the views of many religions, and many people want to allow a religious view of creationism to be taught in the public school system. The foundation of evolution is based upon the belief that the origin of all ordered complex ...

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Alchemy

The science by aid of which the chemical philosophers of medieval times attempted to transmute the baser metals into gold or silver. There is considerable divergence of opinion as to the etymology of the word, but it would seem to be derived from the Arabic al=the, and kimya=chemistry, which in ...

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Alchemy

The science by aid of which the chemical philosophers of medieval times attempted to transmute the baser metals into gold or silver. There is considerable divergence of opinion as to the etymology of the word, but it would seem to be derived from the Arabic al=the, and kimya=chemistry, which in ...

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Albert Einstein

was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm. He was raised in Munich, where his family owned a small electrical machinery shop. Though he did not even begin to speak until he was three, he showed a great curiosity of nature and even taught himself Euclidean geometry at the age of 12. Albert despised ...

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Historical Development Of Atomic Structure

T3 IBS Chemistry Ms. Redman The idea behind the "atom" goes back to the Ancient Greek society, where scientists believed that all matter was made of smaller, more fundamental particles called elements. They called these particles atoms, meaning "not divisible." Then came the chemists and ...

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Darwinism

Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution to explain the origin, diversity and complexity of life. I will will disprove evolution by showing that natural selection only explains small evolutionary changes, collectively known as microevolution. Natural selection cannot drive large ...

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