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Crime Rates Homicide Rates
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Final Cause Natural Phenomena
1,500 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The word "telos" in ancient Greek meant: "goal, target, mission, completion, perfection." The Greeks seem to have associated the attaining of a goal with perfection. Modern scientific thought is much less sanguine about teleology, the belief that causes are preceded by their effects. The idea is less zany than it sounds. It was Aristotle who postulated the existence of four types of ca...
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618 wordsThe discussion of the philosophical question of historical explanation is in reality a disagreement concerning the nature of the philosophic method. There are primarily two sides taken in this argument, those who agree with Carl Hempel and those that do not. According to Hempel a historical event is only sufficiently explained when it logically fits a set of confirmed pre-existing conditions along with some universal laws. Certainly all things cannot easily be assigned to rules and laws. Politic...
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God Existence Immanuel Kant
3,109 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 sh...
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4,866 wordsHumes Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion ranks among the greatest writings in the history of Western philosophy. The work addresses the sensitive issue of the knowledge we have of God through reason alone, and, in the process, Hume presents arguments which undermine the classic proofs for Gods existence. The arguments in the Dialogues assume an important 18 th century distinction between natural religion and revealed religion. Natural religion involves knowledge of God drawn from nature, sole...
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Expert Systems Artificial Intelligence
3,935 wordsINDEX + What are Expert Systems? + The relationship between Expert systems and Artificial Intelligence. + Structure of Expert Systems. + Designing an Expert System. + Building Expert Systems. + Knowledge Engineering. + Tools, Shells and Skeletons. + Software and Hardware considerations in Expert Systems. + What are the uses of Expert Systems. + Advantages and Disadvantages of Expert Systems. + How Expert Systems work (Examples of Expert Systems). + The Importance and future of Expert Systems. + ...
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1,758 wordsHitler'S Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans And The Hitler'S Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans And The Holocaust Title: Hitlers Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust 1996 622 p. $ 30. 00 Author: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York Synopsis Hitlers Willing Executioners is a work that may change our understanding of the Holocaust and of Germany during the Nazi period. Daniel Goldhagen has revisited a question that history has come to treat a...
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Soul And Body Efficient Cause
2,177 wordsIn Hylomorphism Hylomorphism in General In De Anima, Aristotle makes extensive use of technical terminology introduced and explained elsewhere in his writings. He claims, for example, using vocabulary derived from his physical and metaphysical theories, that the soul is a first actuality of a natural organic body (De Anima ii 1, 412 b 5 - 6), that it is a substance as form of a natural body which has life in potentiality (De Anima ii 1, 412 a 20 - 1) and, similarly, that it is a first actuality ...
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5,990 wordsMaterialist Response To David Chalmers The Conscious Materialist Response To David Chalmers The Conscious Mind A MATERIALIST RESPONSE TO DAVID CHALMERS THE CONSCIOUS MIND Paul Raymond Stanford University In this paper I will examine and criticize the arguments David Chalmers gives for rejecting a materialistic account of consciousness in his book The Conscious Mind. I will draw upon arguments and intuitions from the three main schools of thought in the philosophical study of consciousness (a) fo...
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