Essays Tagged: "Concept"

Truth from Plaro and the Nietzsche's perspectives.

pies.Ideas are guarrantees of the truth correspondance; "An idea is an objective reality to which a concept corresponds and it exists whether we conceive it or not" . How can Plato say that ?...Imagin ... truth. The first important point Nietzsche refers, as Heisenberg does,is the denial of traditional concept of truthas independent of background, interests, and values .According to Heisenberg, we may ...

(6 pages) 122 0 1.8 May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Self-Concept Paper.

owever, it is the first step, in my opinion, to understanding the importance and impact of our self-concept. The self-perception table was somewhat advantageous in helping me understand how I view mys ... of an outcome make the outcome more likely to happen. This is true with the second part of the self-concept assignment, the ideal self. I have a respectable view of myself and since people see my open ...

(3 pages) 174 0 3.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Could the self be an illusion

(4 pages) 42 0 3.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Chapter 3 outline on: The Canons of Empirical Methods

derstanding it is formal, but only as the integration of experience, imagination, understanding and conceptualization in function of agent intellect's intention of being, of the desire to know reality ... ws.To operationalize a hypothesis is to devise a way to specifically concretely measure an abstract concept. The abstract a concept is, the harder it is to operationlize The first, Canon of Ope ...

(5 pages) 34 0 4.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Teaching is both Art and Science

Teaching is a concept that cannot be limited to either art or science in any specific way. It is part of everyone' ... needs skills so does art. Skills that are involved with teaching are the learning, decision making, conceptual, as well as human relations. To perform teaching skills correctly you must have the clari ... , as well as human relations. To perform teaching skills correctly you must have the clarity on the concept of where, why, how, and what. It is this know how and technical skills that are important to ...

(3 pages) 84 0 3.7 Apr/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

An Essay on "The Ethics of Respect for Nature".

Paul Taylor envisioned the possibility of a life centered system through the workings of two concepts. The first concept being the good, or well-being, of a living thing. This concept entails d ... parks, which would protect the trees and other wildlife that are within its boundaries. The second concept is the idea of an entity possessing inherent worth. This simply means that all living things ...

(3 pages) 62 0 2.3 Dec/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Human capital accumulation

is one of these. This resource-based view represents a current paradigm on firm competitiveness and conceptualises the organisation as a collection of competencies and draws attention to issues of lea ... tional retention (Robertson et al., 1991).This paper considers some of the issues that surround the conceptualisation of HRD as the new capital for both individuals and organisations. It also serves a ...

(53 pages) 568 1 4.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Intercultural Communication

"Similarity in Perceptual Orientations really struck my interest. " This concept refers to a person's prevailing approach to reality and the degree of flexibility he manifes ... degree of flexibility he manifests in organizing it."(Barnlund, 31.) Due to this very general concept, I feel that the ideal behind perceptual orientation being related to culture is subject to ... culture is subject to question. Firstly, I feel that anyone from any culture can share this type of concept because it is not necessarily based on culture, but on mindset, and though people of other c ...

(5 pages) 20 0 0.0 Jun/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Globalization

"Similarity in Perceptual Orientations really struck my interest. " This concept refers to a person's prevailing approach to reality and the degree of flexibility he manifes ... degree of flexibility he manifests in organizing it."(Barnlund, 31.) Due to this very general concept, I feel that the ideal behind perceptual orientation being related to culture is subject to ... culture is subject to question. Firstly, I feel that anyone from any culture can share this type of concept because it is not necessarily based on culture, but on mindset, and though people of other c ...

(5 pages) 924 0 5.0 Jun/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Critical Thinking Application Paper

king is from a psychological view point. Our brain first must comprehend information before one can conceptualize or evaluate observations presented to us. In the simplest form critical thinking can b ... finition of critical thinking can be found to include the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or ...

(4 pages) 487 0 4.7 Aug/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Emotion language term paper

The differences between happiness, joy and gladness1.IntroductionThe concept of happiness can be characterized by three separate prototypes, which all refer to happiness ... be characterized by three separate prototypes, which all refer to happiness but each approaches the concept of happiness from a slightly different meaning. The differences reveal mainly in the intensi ... iness and to reach the main goal of one’s life it is good to understand the differences in the conceptualizations of happiness.2.The three prototypesThe source domain of the three prototypes are ...

(7 pages) 26 0 3.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

How is meaning generated? Illustrate your answer by presenting and explaining your 'reading' of an advertisement selected from a recent newspaper or magazine.

the referent of a sign, the mental representation of an object or a word which is contained in our conceptual maps. They are the meanings which act at as a function of the denotations and connotation ... a function of the denotations and connotations of subsequent signs, that is, they are subjective to concepts of myth and ideology . Though, the generation of meaning is most closely bound by the socia ...

(4 pages) 24 0 4.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Is Number Subjective?

ss something factual independent of our way of regarding things can surprise only those who think a concept is something subjective like an idea. But this is a mistaken view." What is Frege's meaning ... ng that statements of number are subjective, but that statements of number are really statements of concept, and therefore are objective. The way which we choose to regard it an object is another way ...

(2 pages) 1105 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Critical Thinking

at land and they are different, your mind automatically, naturally, becomes crystallized around the concept of a mountain as reality and flat land as reality. This crystallization prevents you from se ... that is beyond the distinctions, because you are looking at the distinctions, at the differentiated concepts. Because you think that reality is composed of those differentiated concepts, you don't see ...

(3 pages) 91 0 4.5 Mar/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making

Team Communication

of arriving at a common goal with effective communication.This paper discusses a brief and concise concept of team communication. The working definition has already been stated earlier. This paper al ... ugh the general importance of communication in application with team communication, this particular concept is to be taken in cognizance according to a power point presentation made entitled "Team Com ...

(6 pages) 270 0 3.5 Mar/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Alternative

Critical Thinking Application Paper

The concepts of critical thinking and creative thinking are both gaining increasing importance in the wo ... g increasing importance in the world today. Critical thinking allows people to understand difficult concepts in a manner that is clear and more defined. They can more readily understand those concepts ... iew material and analyze that material. There are many times when critical thinking is an important concept. The process of critical thinking requires you to ask more questions of both others and of y ...

(3 pages) 139 0 0.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making