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Occupied by Wall StreetIt should be clear to everyone in the world that what the Occupy Wall Street Movement wants, what the dominant signal of the movement is, is to reign in the excesses of the overgrown destabilizing financial sector that has depressed the world.
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The Scientific ProcessCharles Sanders Peirce greatly illucidated the scientific process through his analysis of its three-fold mode of reasoning. Peirce divided this process into three modes: deduction, induction and abduction.
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The Return(s) of JesusCould it be that Christians are deeply misguided in their belief with regards to Jesus' future return? There are indications that the return of Jesus does not occur as one single event in the future but can repeatedly occur and has occured multiple times.
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Energy Base TransformationWhen the energy base of a society is replaced with a new energy base major changes occur in the everyday living, worldview and environment of a people. We are currently on the brink of a new transformation and will see the emergence of a new humanity.
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ManyBooks.Net For EReadersManyBooks.net is a great site to visit if you have an eReader and are looking for classic books to read. They have over 25,000 free books to choose from and offer these books in many different formats.
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The Failure of FalsifiabilityIs the principle of falsifiability a truly good principle to base consideration or acceptance of scientific theories on? It turns out that our conceptions of which theories are in principle falsifiable are heavily influenced by the prevailing technology.
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William James on Truth and GoodnessOne crucial aspect of William James' concept of truth is his characterization of the true as being "the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief." These truths are good to believe because they are useful.
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Richard Rorty on Morality and CommunityIn "Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism", Richard Rorty explicates his concept of the relation of morality to the community. Throughout the article, Rorty distinguishes between two conceptions of this relation.
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Buddhist Spiritual PragmatismWhile in Buddhism one finds seemingly impractical and unbelievable religious doctrines, there is a clear practical base to Buddha's teachings.
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Crispin Wright's Pluralistic Conception of TruthCrispin Wright offers a pluralist conception of truth in Truth and Objectivity, where the idea is that various discourses have different truth predicates. Wright espouses what he calls a "minimalist" conception of truth.
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Mark Heller's Appropriateness and William James' TruthMark Heller's conception of appropriateness is similar to William James' conception of truth as far as practical use is concerned, but these conceptions diverge insofar as Heller differentiates appropriateness from truth as conceived in standard logic.
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Roy Sorensen's Sorites Meta ParadoxRoy Sorensen uses the modular theory of mind to explain the sorites meta paradox. The sorites meta paradox has to do with the fact that people, even highly educated philosophers, fail to accept that vague term boundaries do exist.
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Richard Bernstein's PluralityRichard Bernstein believes that there is no escape from plurality. We find ourselves immersed in a field of different traditions, perspectives and philosophic orientations.
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Early Modern Materialist PhilosophyThe materialist philosophy reemerged with a vengeance on the advent of the scientific revolution and through the enlightenment. The superfluous doctrines of scholastics, mystics and religious folk were to be banished from off of the face of the earth.
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Foucault's Hidden NetworkFoucault speaks of a hidden network which contains the unformed rules of formation which govern the how people define objects of studies, concepts and build theories.
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Hegel on Modern PhilosophyAccording to Hegel, modern philosophy consisted in the emergence of a newly confident inner self-consciousness that was able to unify the inner world of thought with the outer world of nature through new scientific ways and networks.
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Descartes and Certainty Beyond ExistenceThe main problem when we come to Descartes is to find truths as certain as existence. Descartes believed that we must only accept what was clear and distinct, yet he had difficulty achieving this beyond the phenomenalism of pure images.
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Aspects of Daoist Non-ActionThe Daoist concept of non-action is a subtle multifaceted concept. The Daoist presentation of non-action in the daodejing gives us a manifest presentation of how this enigmatic concept arises in various situations in the world.
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Mencian Sprouts of GoodnessIn this essay, I will focus on the capacities for human goodness found in human nature by Mencius and defend his views against the attacks of Xunzi. While Mencius focused on the good in human nature, Xunzi focused on the bad in human nature.
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Difference Within IdentityDifference and Identity are not usually thought of as being applied to each other. Here is demonstrated a possible way that Difference can be included within Identity.
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Thoughts on the Evolution of ConsciousnessThis is a little thought experiment having to do with the evolution of consciousness and perception. Our current neuroanatomy and chemical composition has an effect on how we perceive the world...
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Mead on the Social Constitution of the SelfGeorge Herbert Mead attempts to show how selves are constituted and relate to the form of social conduct. For Mead the social processes are considered to be primary in the development of selves, rather than selves giving rise to realm of the social.
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Book Review: Language, Truth and LogicThis article consists in a review of Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic. It deals with his view of meaning, the verification principle and the relation of philosophy to the sciences and metaphysics.
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The Self and CompassionHaving compassion for others seems to commit one to the belief in selves. This seems to cause suffering by causing one to cling to the well being of others. Does it make sense to consider the Buddhist idea of compassion as being compatible with nonself?
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The Unspeakable TruthIn Buddhist philosophy one finds several levels of truth. The first is the conventional, which is expressible in language and the second is the ultimate truth or reality, which is not expressible in language.
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Some Paradoxes of PhysicsParadoxes have haunted the world of physics for the past century. Two notable and often confused paradoxes are the paradoxes of Zermelo and Loschmidt. Other strange results come from quantum mechanics and general relativity.
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Will Christianity Ever Become Mythologized?It has been said that Christianity is a myth or will eventually sink into the category of myth. Which forces in society today are working towards its mythologization and which against this?
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The Part-Time Job EconomyPart-time jobs, once seen as a temporary remedy, have become a mainstay of the economy. This has had negative consequences on human lives. Harsh economic times allow for the restructuring the system and for a renewed full-time economy to arise.