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Material Substance God Created
1,635 wordster> Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Occasionalism is a variation upon Cartesian metaphysics. The latter is the most notorious case of dualism (mind and body, for instance). The mind is a mental substance. The body a material substance. What permits the complex interactions which happen between these two disparate substances? The unexpended mind and the extended body surely cannot interact without a mediating agency, Go...
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Set Of Rules Lower Level
1,626 words... f Quantum Mechanics is an important member of this species. The law of parsimony must apply both to the theory entities AND to observable results, both part of a coherent, internally and externally consistent, logical (in short: scientific) theory. It is divergent-convergent: it diverges from strict correspondence to reality while theorizing, only to converge with it when testing the predictions yielded by the theory. Quarks may or may not exist but their effects do, and these effects are ob...
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Sire Describes Basic Questions Worldview
472 wordsIn chapter one the author, James W. Sire, describes his purpose for writing the book and makes it clear that many people hold many different worldviews whether they know it or not. He says the struggle to discover our own worldview is one of the greatest tasks we could ever face. Many people have faith but some lose it and it is just a matter of finding it again. Sire hopes this book will help. The four major reasons he wrote this book are 1) to outline the basic worldviews, 2) to trace historic...
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Relations Between Homo Sapiens Relations Between Homo Nature
1,460 wordsWhat are the relations between Homo sapiens and their cosmological, geological, and biological origins and contexts? It may be inevitable that we will begin our mini-conference about religion, nature, and culture with confusion at least, by articulating some of the things that are confusing me, or others. So I will break trail today by raising some of the questions and conundrums that complicate our question about relations between Homo sapiens and their environments. I hope that this week you a...
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King Of Thebes Brother Polyneices
589 wordsGreek Values Through Antigone Antigone reflects the worldviews and cultural values of the Greeks through honor, fighting for her will and the right thing, and destiny. Antigone showed honor because she knew she had to bury Polyneices. She was fighting for what was right, because she knew it was right to bury her brother, Polyneices. Finally Antigone showed destiny because she knew her fate was to die for her brother. Antigone reflected the Greek values in three main ways. Throughout the story An...
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Worldview Defines Individuals Everyday Experiences Goldhaber Life
483 words1) Mechanistic, Organismic, and Contextualist, world views all approach understanding lives differently. Explain. Theories that share worldviews may differ on the particulars and may even be in opposition on some points, but they still share a set of basic assumptions or building blocks that each has used in arriving at its conclusions (Goldhaber, 9). The three developmental worldviews that are most relevant to develop mentalists are Mechanistic, Organismic, and Contextualist. Mechanistic worldv...
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Set Of Rules Scientific Theory
3,265 wordsSam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Occasionalism is a variation upon Cartesian metaphysics. The latter is the most notorious case of dualism (mind and body, for instance). The mind is a? mental substance? . The body? a? material substance? . What permits the complex interactions which happen between these two disparate? substances? ? The? unexpended mind? and the? extended body? surely cannot interact without a mediating agency, God. The appearance is tha...
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Thoughts And Ideas Objective Reality
1,155 wordsReality is an objective matter and should be treated as such. There is no such thing as subjective reality, therefore, an objective reality is the only thing that is arguably correct. There are many different worldviews around the world, through the course of this essay a few of those worldviews and their systems of thought will be presented. Throughout this essay I will try to remain completely objective myself, but by the very nature of my argument, it cannot be done completely. For my first e...
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