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Progressive Era Advertising Industry
5,195 wordsTRUTH AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE PROFESSIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF 'TRUTH IN ADVERTISING' AND 'TRUE AND FAIR' FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA DURING THE PROGRESSIVE ERA Both advertisers and auditors wrestled with the truth of their text during the Progressive Era (1880 - 1940). Although in North America, advertisers adopted "truth in advertising" as a theme, auditors rejected "true and fair" as a description of financial statements. Auditors instead adopted the weaker statement that financ...
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1,447 words"Everything you know about the Littleton killings is wrong. But the truth may be scarier than the myths" (Cullen 1999, p. 1). This is the title of an article that claims that "what was reported last spring about the motives and methods of killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold was untrue" (Cullen 1999, p. 1). The question that arises from this claim, is how can that be so? How can the "most notorious events from the shooting spree - reported over and over in news reports, on TV chat shows and now...
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Philosophical Investigation 6 54 Wittgenstein
1,007 wordsWhy did Wittgenstein come to call the propositions of his Tractatus "senseless" (6. 54)? The conclusions and final philosophical position of Wittgenstein's Tractatus undermine and deny the possibility of his methods and objectives. Namely he concludes that metaphysical conjecture and the attempt to answer unanswerable questions is senseless. Since the Tractatus throughout posits solutions to the questions of reality, the meaningfulness of language and the possibility of human knowledge it has to...
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Form Of Representation Represented In The Sense Facts
1,037 words... ns), to Wittgenstein this is a paradoxical idea and the attempt to do so is the very folly which leads us to many of the mistakes of metaphysics. Hence this is merely a statement of what can be known, unsullied by investigation, which is the only way it can retain its validity. Of course, as with the rest of the Tractatus, this phrase echoes with the thought of the all the other matrices in the work. The point has already been demonstrated but demonstrated though negation, marking the bounda...
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High Context Conflict Management
1,048 words... e and negative face. These terms are somewhat self-explanatory, but basically can be explained in a compromise analogy. In Facework negotiating, as in any compromise situation, the two sides give a little on each side and get a little on each side. It is during this pulling and pushing for balance is negotiation in its own. There is a median that is trying to be reached on both sides that both can be happy with, or even at least a point that is tolerable for each party involved. In face nego...
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True Or False Moral Judgements
4,317 words... ons of deaths, that it impoverishes the country in which it is adopted, and that it greatly restricts people's freedom. I think that is a good argument. It certainly is not some kind of simple logical fallacy, as the concept of 'the naturalistic fallacy' would presumably imply, since I am deriving a moral judgement from other, non-moral judgements. It might be, and standard is, replied that the argument presupposes certain implicit moral judgements, that life, prosperity, and freedom are goo...
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Point Of View Id Ego
2,312 words... y suppressed the seduction theory for prudential reasons, then said something equally outrageous about infantile sexuality. Odd, if Freud was trying to be a conformist and avoid opprobrium. In my view Sulloway does not succeed. At the end of his book there is a section called 'Catalogue of Major Freud Myths'. That is probably where the term paranoia crept into my sense of his approach, since about twenty-three of the myths are said to have the function of 'nihil ating' the role of biological...
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Taking Into Account Personality Types
2,506 wordsA Further Investigation of Major Field and Person-Environment Fit: Sociological Versus Psychological Interpretations of Holland's Theory There are different facts that influence the growth of achievement of college students during the period of their study. To evaluate the impact of various facts, Hollands theory is often used. In this work the congruence between the students' personalities and their major field environments is examined. It is known that personality dynamics and social-environme...
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Straight Lines Great Impact
2,004 wordsEuclid's Elements Introduction to the works of Euclid and Euclid's Life Euclid's name is often associated with geometry. Euclid's Elements is one of the most influential and important scientific works in the history of mathematics. This work had served as the fundamental basics for the vast majority of geometrical teachings for the past 20 centuries. Euclid has made great impact on mathematics and set the standard for logical structure for works in the field of geometry. Unfortunately, there is ...
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding Distinct Ideas
7,663 wordsJohn Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Book 1: Chapter 1 Go: To the Table of Contents | This is the first Chapter | Forward to Next Chapter Book I Neither Principles nor Ideas Are Innate Chapter I No Innate Speculative Principles 1. The way shown how we come by any knowledge, sufficient to prove it not innate. It is an established opinion amongst some men, that there are in the u...
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Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence
2,450 wordsMind and Machine: The Essay Technology has traditionally evolved as the result of human needs. Invention, when prized and rewarded, will invariably rise-up to meet the free market demands of society. It is in this realm that Artificial Intelligence research and the resultant expert systems have been forged. Much of the material that relates to the field of Artificial Intelligence deals with human psychology and the nature of consciousness. Exhaustive debate on consciousness and the possibilities...
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Cult Leaders Religious Movements
1,902 wordsCults: Reasons People Join Cults are intriguing and arouse curiosity in the minds of people who have accepted life in society and joined humanity the way it is. It is amazing to think that people leave their life of normalcy to put their trust in something that is alien but promises them something in return or will save their souls from whatever will harm them. There are many causes that affect people s minds to make them join cults. Cults are very promising, can be very eye-opening, and may be ...
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Papal Legate Kuno Dits Dab Lard Abelard
5,637 wordsJacques Maritain Center: Readings Abelard Abelard, Peter, dialectician, philosopher, and theologian, b. 1079; d. 1142. Peter Abelard (also spelled Abelard, Abelard, etc. , while the best MSS. have Abelards) was born in the little village of Pallet, about ten miles east of Nantes in Brittany. His father, Berengar, was lord of the village, his mothers name was Lucia; both afterwards entered the monastic state. Peter, the oldest of their children, was intended for a military career, but, as he hims...
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True Or False Hobbes Believes
1,977 wordsPhilosophy: Truth, Simplicity And Complexity Essay, Research Philosophy: Truth, Simplicity And Complexity Simplicity and Complexity Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 18: 4). This seems to be a very simple scripture talking about simple ideas. Children understand the little things that adults have a tendency to exasperate inherent truths. The Bible shows us that children understand right from wrong without trying to conv...
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Priori Propositions Include Priori Propositions Include Such Statements Experience
1,104 wordsAre There Synthetic A-Priori Propositions? From a logical point of view, the propositions that express human knowledge can be divided according to two distinctions. First is the distinction between propositions that are a priori, in the sense that they are knowable prior to experience, and those that are a posteriori, in the sense that they are knowable only after experience. Second is the distinction between propositions that are analytic, that is, those in which the predicate is included in th...
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God Exists Necessarily Exists
2,664 wordsThis paper will outline Spinoza s argument in Part 1 of his Ethics of substance. He argues that there is only one substance, which is the same as God, that includes everything in the universe. It will walk through each proposition and explain his proof of it, which relies of his stated definitions. This paper will also explain the difference between Spinoza s belief of substance and that of Leibniz from his Discourse on Metaphysics. It will then argue that Leibniz s account of the number of subs...
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