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Sense Data Space Time
1,315 wordsOne night I saw a TV program, Einstein's Universe. I turned it on because it was narrated by Peter Ustinov, whom I admire, even though I'm tired of Einstein's universe. The program was well done. A great effort was made to make a clear and convincing dramatization of the universe according to Einstein; just enough mystique to sugar the dull sterility of science. What bothered me most was the subservient role of Peter Ustinov playing an average man who didn't know science, feeling privileged to b...
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Existence Of God Knowledge Of God
1,543 wordsFor a Genuine empiricist the phrase God Exists is meaningless To come to a proper understanding of the question, a few key concepts must first be established. What is meant by the term Empiricism? To an empiricist, the occurrence of consciousness is simply the product of experience. It is assumed that all human knowledge is acquired from experience and observation alone. It is believed that we are born with an empty slate; it is through sense perception that our knowledge begins to form and shap...
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Time And Space Lily Briscoe
3,170 wordsDiscuss Woolf? s Evocation Of Time And Space Discuss Woolf? s Evocation Of Time And Space In The Captured? moments? Of Art And Consciousness. ? A match burning in a crocus? (Mrs. Dalloway)? The white spaces that lie between hour and hour? (The Waves) Discuss Woolf? s evocation of time and space in the captured? moments? of art and consciousness. Forged from the duality between solitude and communion, Woolf? s novels are rich in struggles for, and reflections on self-identification. This recurren...
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Nature Of Things Primary Qualities
1,389 wordsEnlightenment began with an unparalleled confidence in human reason. The new sciences success in making clear the natural world through Locke, Berkeley, and Hume affected the efforts of philosophy in two ways. The first is by locating the basis of human knowledge in the human mind and its encounter with the physical world. Second is by directing philosophy's attention to an analysis of the mind that was capable of such cognitive success. John Locke set the tone for enlightenment by affirming the...
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Critical Thinker Ultimate Truth
1,514 wordsA critical thinker, you want to distinguish between correct information, misinformation, biased reporting, and deliberate persuasion in your everyday news of the world. How might you do so? Responsibility of Thought If Virtue is knowledge, as Socrates claimed, then we are bound to be wicked (Tivnan 4). For centuries, people have been searching for the ultimate Truth, the Absolute knowledge, only to further submerge themselves in the oblivion to the fundamental fact that there is no single truth,...
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