Therefore, each individual's perception of physical objects will result in an individual sense of reality for each individual based on the perception of the same group of physical objects. ... The first comparison was that in the pragmatic point of view common-sense objects are able to be viewed or constructed by the individuals according to their experiences. ... The common spot between the two concepts here would be that the experiences play a major role in the individual's determination of reality. ... The last idea discussed in this section was the idea that after everythin...

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It rests on assumptions that are metascientific not metaphysical in the Aristotelian sense. ... The three most common forms are non-reductive materialism, reductive materialism, and eliminative materialism. ... Eliminative materialism states that our common sense mentalistic, understanding of ourselves, and most of the scientific psychology based upon it are false. A proper theory will be developed by advancing neuroscience, and will no longer contain common sense mentalistic categories, but will introduce a new theory of our cognitive architecture and activities. ... He thought that...

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His beliefs were that human beings possessed a type of sixth sense and that ordinary people could conduct their own research with a do-it yourself type guide to assist them. ... Rupert Sheldrake believed that scientific exploration of these common experiences could lead to a new understanding of human and animal minds therefore he is arguing for a new concept of the mind - one not bounded by the brain, but operating through fields of influence. ... I tend to agree with this concept as it illustrates the reality of how an individual's willingness to accept their sixth sense has a direct im...

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Depression is the most common of the mood disorders. It is characterized by an overwhelming sense of sadness, sometimes without any obvious precipitant, accompanied by slowing of thoughts and actions. ... At first I was a little skeptical but after reading the article a few times it all made sense to me. ...

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If this were true, it would make sense that James' writing reflects that she was consciously both the observer and the observed. ... Her own sense of being herself within her writing was replaced by a sense of being appreciated as herself by others. ... It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits. ... " After reading Jules Lamaître's Etudes et Portraits, she writes that her whole being is "vivifie...

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Under torture, the subject ( victim ) is forced into a position of purely object that ultimately loses his/her sense of interiority and intimacy. ... The victim or survivors of physical violence share a common experience. Their belief in the goodness of human being was undermined, their sense of safety in this world is destroyed and their trust betrayed. ... The world of victims of torture are frozen, their sense of time is lost, mind occupied with fear, starvation for contact and comfort. ... Sadly, there are times, quite common, the victim of violence against women will develop an internaliz...

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However, case study is a relatively weak method in the sense that gives little ground for making generalizations on other people. ... I investigated life histories of many people, and tried to find regularities between them, so that I could classify and organize them in such a way that it would make sense. ...

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She uses everyday life objects in each simile and metaphor to develop a sense of familiarity for the reader in her poem. ... Each image invokes some common notion related to the workings of the mind and our consciousness. The starting phrase of "skull with softly flickering" (Line 1) is an example of this and reminds the reader of a very common picture of the nerves in the brain lighting up as electrical signals are transmitted through them. ...

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More commonly, dispositionalism suggests that these perceptual responses are bounded with visual experiences of colour qualia or accumulated sense data. The perceptive mechanism therefore assigns colour to an object based on visual sense data experience which has been activated by the dispositional characteristic within an object. ... It is not the dispositional attribute of the object to produce green' or greenness', or any other colour for that matter, that effect is purely a concern of the subject viewer's interpretation, although the effect's product is a coherent, co...

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If we are to find a common problem that offers any sort of unity to what we have been studying, it must be that each philosopher wants to discover how to go about experiencing reality. ... To appreciate an experience unconditionally, it must be shorn of that which is sensed and that which is opined. ...

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Paradigmatic approach (Kuhn, "paradigm - is a common sample of actual scientific practice"). ... Psychological Knowledge of Antiquity One of the most common is the definition of psychology as a science of the soul. ...

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" By the mid-eighteenth century, the common procedure for families dealing with those with mental disabilities was either to force them into a "madhouse" or take them under their own roof and care for them themselves. ... Those unfortunate souls in England who were commonly misunderstood were forced into the "madhouse" under the merit of a vague definition enforced by the English Common Law which said to "confine a person disordered in mind, who seems disposed to do mischief to himself or to another person". ... And in preparing those without the strong sense of metac...

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Despite their differences, however, all have one thing in common: an overwhelmingly optimistic vision for the future. ... This ambiguity heightens our sense of curiosity. ... On a different level, this also offers to us the idea that the mind is the only constant throughout life: while the tangible body ages and decays, the spirit remains the common denominator that makes each and every one of us an individual. ...

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Pantagruel's patience with Panurge all throughout Book 3 is most exemplary of the importance of understanding that learning who you are and gaining the sense of what is right and wrong through truth and reason is very gradual. ... Also, another point is the idea of doing what makes sense and what is reasonable for each individual. ... Montaigne quite clearly asserts that "truth and reason are common to all: they no more belong to the man who first put them into words than to him who last did so- (44). ... He encourages teachers to have a student's "virtue and sense of right an...

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Not in the romantic sense; many seem to have not problem with that is to be aware of scientific knowledge, and integrated it into philosophy. ... Descartes is known as the father of modern philosophy; Descartes" realized that one could not analyze a problem simply on the common sense level, but that he must be "prone to the micro level." ...

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What Came First: The Chicken or the Egg? David Hume moves through a logical progression of the ideas behind cause and effect. He critically analyzes the reasons behind those generally accepted ideas. Though the relation of cause and effect seems to be completely logical and based on common sense, he...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....

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ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to layout the primary tenets of the much debated mind/body dualistic argument from the lens of philosophers from the ancient epoch but most elaborately from Rene Descartes. The most critical account of the mind-body theory was first systematically carried out by Descartes. To him, mind and body does not only exist, they are distinct and they causally interact at the pineal gland. Through his notion of clear and distinct ideas, Descartes infers the existence of the mind as a thinking substance and the body as an extended substance; hence the two are independen...

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