The underlying problem concerns a misleading division drawn between the literal (understood as some physical, and thereby authentic, form of the natural world) and the literate or literary (understood as some expression of language or imagination). Lance Newman founds his reading of Thoreau upon an ecocriticism that emphasizes as "the central axiom in its critical theory" a "direct contradiction" of the claims of "poststructuralist" theories reducing the world to language. ... (Phillips expands this irony to ecocritical theory's absolute resistance to the absolutism of theory.) Though I ...

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It is the evolution of discoveries and information upon information which are conected and new inventions and laws and theories are made and created but all present technology is the combination of this information throughout thousands of years. ... Thus scientific knowledge, including, physics, chemistry, biology, and even language if we count it as a science would be inexistant at all and thus knowledge could not exist as a whole as it depends upon language a lot, only logical knowledge such as, if you throw a rock at a window, it will break through adaptation to the environment. Moreov...

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The author contends that it is only with the emergence of travel, literature, and history that a new formation towards this "Other' begins to find a place within these theories. ... The ethnographer must observe what is done, and if he is to understand its meaning, he must have a knowledge of the native's language and of the meaning context in which the act is performed.... "Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ended once and for all Man's status as a special creation placed in an unchanging Great Chain of Being.... Before Darwin's theory, geolo...

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It is important to note that although Weber believed that value neutrality was the aim of research, his view was that no science is fundamentally neutral and its observational language is never independent of the way individuals see phenomena and the questions they ask about them (Morrison 1995 pp.267, 347) It is this link between the researcher's theoretical stand and the methods adopted that raises the question as to whether sociology can be value free. ... (Morrison 1995 pp.24-25) In two key areas positivism differed from idealism: first it put great emphasis on the reliability of obse...

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He had quite a strong faith in science and induction (which consists in achieving a general theory from individual facts), which was considered by him to be the new "spirit" to reach the truth. ... Bacon wanted to base knowledge on the accumulation of facts, and he would even got to ignore the role that hypothesis play in order to elaborate a theory, which is fundamental. ... In the second place, his like of latin (the proverb that he quotes in line 27: "Abeunt studia in mores", which means "studies culminate in manners"), language into which he published some of his works, such as "Novum Orga...

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Scientific Management is one of the earliest theories of management, as espoused by FW Taylor. ... Human Relations theories contend that an employee must be treated as a human being and not as a mere factor of production. Critics contended that the human relations theories have placed too much emphasis on the human aspect in the organization. ... Classical theories are time-bound. ...

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The identity of the person is not bodily depending on clothing style, skin color or beautification like plastic surgery, but depends on the environment, religion and language. ... Different theories have been put forward, for example Freudian psychoanalysis pronounces that sexuality is the chief, if not the only, source of psychic energy, thereby accentuating the pleasure principle. ... Utilitarianism refers to the moral theory, which declares that the morally right action in any circumstances is the one which is most likely to maximise happiness . ...

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In Physics, they included Alan Fowler who pursued investigations that led to the founding of a new branch in Physics, the "Two Dimensional Gas" theories, describing phenomena related to the behavior of electron in solid interfaces separating different materials, such as those existing in semiconductor devices. ...

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Their apprehension is valid, because America needs to produce a ceaseless source of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians who can understand each new concept or theory, take advantage of it, and create further advances. ... Students are to be taught the important concepts and theories of each, in conjunction with the process skills that make scientific inquiry possible. ...

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It could also be the development of language to eliminate unnecessary words in our everyday speech due to technology's increasingly ubiquitous nature. ... And so with such a vast wealth of knowledge available to most people today from smartphones, and our smartphones seen as an extension of ourselves, in theory this knowledge, even if not technically my own, comes under the umbrella of human. ...

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"Philosophy is called upon to be the theory of practice, though ideas sufficiently definite to be operative in experimental endeavor." ... Kant considered religion, together with language, as the most important obstacle to attaining world government as a condition for establishing a lasting peace. ...

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