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Search term: language-manipulation
"In order to find out how things really are one must understand the filters through which one perceives the world." Evaluate and discuss this claim.
... world is language. According to Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, one's language determines one's thoughts. Thus, people, who speak languages, ... more objective in evaluation. Thus, recognizing filters that manipulate one's empirical perceptions, one can adjust one' ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
EASTERN AND WESTERN THINKING, GIVING IT A THOUGHT OR TWO
... is likely in large part due to the languages themselves. "East Asian languages are highly contextual," leaving the listener to ... that lie far outside of their individual ability to manipulate. These fundamentally different views regarding a person's power ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
"Why does Searle think that the Chinese Room thought experiment shows that the Turing Test is invalid, strong AI false? Can a computer or robot possess understanding and intelligence?"
... " about what he or she doing "produces the answers by manipulating non-interpreted formal symbols." Like a computer, the man simply ... understand Chinese, and a manual written in the human's language. Searle argues that the manual can instruct the human how ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Descartes: Imagination
... being mistaken. Despite being a familiar word of everyday language, within Philosophy, imagination is a very complex and intricate ... as the mental capacity for experiencing, constructing, or manipulating mental imagery. It is the image of something that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Epistemology Project
... confusion in children and it impedes their first language learning abilities. With regard to methodological assumption of cognitive ... are constituted precisely as a function of the manipulation of objects. The instrumentality of operational structures makes ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
An Intelligent Debate.
... all is that of language comprehension. The ability to gather meaning from spoken or signed language was previously believed to ... develop a solution. Many argue that the capability to manipulate arbitrary items as tools is an impressive display of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Boethius philosophy
... manipulated his self-representation for literary and philosophical effect) is carefully structured according to the best classical models. Its language ... and educational structures of antiquity, lacking the Greek language and cut off from the rich resources ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
TOK Essay: What criteria do you use to distinguish between knowledge, opinion and propaganda?"
... by propaganda since it is based on, or strongly influenced by emotion, language, and perception. The problem of knowledge with this "tool of persuasion" is ... a personal belief, and propaganda a belief used as a tool to manipulate.
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Essay on kierkegaard
... faith or eternal happiness, is willing something for consequences. Self-manipulation can only serve to separate the individual from the absolute ... is a consequence of an ambiguity in Kierkegaard's language. If I decide to withhold judgement until I'm better ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Logically Manson
... fifteen-thousand dollar grant for the occasion. The offering manipulated the attending Christians and went against the bible. Including ... he performs ?sexual acts on band members, uses obscene language, and urges children to kill their parents and God? ( ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy