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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This may be because when Sheldon first developed his theory it was normal for people to have an endomorph body types, but today it isn't as common. ... It cannot be just a coincidence that twins that have been separated so long have so much in common. ... My parents constantly held me and gave me a sense of love and security. ... I have always felt a sense of security in my life when I was younger and even now. ... The sense of touch for a baby is very important. ...

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It is a natural instinct to think logically, to have common sense. ... But doubting that what he said could happen would kill the sense for reason and faith. ... Denis; it seemed to have made sense that he was insane. ... The doctor is not crazy and has an ideological sense of his surroundings and the possibilities of life. ... The doctor unwilling develops an impossible sense of differentiating reason and his faith. ...

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There are many shapes and sizes of people that follow a mass movement, but according to Eric Hoffer in his book The True Believer, all the people have some peculiarities in common with one another. ... It has been observed that the common crime level decreases when a mass movement is in effect. ... It gives the criminal a sense of self worth. ... A common hatred can unite people even if they were foes to begin with. Hoffer says, "To share a common hatred, with an enemy even, is to infect him with a feeling of kinship, and thus sap his powers of resistance." ...

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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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In this day and age, ads are a common thing and these ads are constantly being shoved to our faces. ... The main strategy is, as according to Fowles in his article "Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals," to create "a logical link between an ad's emotional appeal and its product [without violating] common sense" (541). ... This sense of safety has been exploited to an exaggerate amount as the Hilux can survive a thousand-foot drop. ...

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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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Through competition man gains validity and a false sense of honor. ... Racism is exhibited by ignorant, sad little people who are unable to find virtues within themselves that make them superior in some sense. ... Unrealized potential is the most common deficiency displayed by man. ... This is not real happiness because it does not add a sense of fulfillment to man's life. ...

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Although, we believe in whatever is visible to us and what we can sense, we cannot rely on our senses either because, they are imperfect and are based on how we as an individual's see things not how they truly are. ... Plato illustrates "Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are two kind and arise for two causes, either from coming out of the light of going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye" (212). ... The darkness is an analogy for our eyes not being able to see in the dark how things physically are because sight is a se...

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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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His argument cannot be refuted and goes as follows: Premise 1: For a material thing to truly exist, it must exist independently of a mind sensing it. Premise 2: A person cannot "know" for certain whether or not something outside of his or her vision continues to exist because the person is not directly sensing the object at that moment. ... However it does rely on what I believe to be a widely accepted, self-evident truth from mere sense and conscious experience of living. By introspection a person can sense him or herself. ...

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When evaluating options illogically, one uses their emotions as a shortcut to common sense. ... It is really difficult for someone abused to comprehend the prospect of what they are losing, a sense of self worth gone astray, or perhaps even have been manipulated into believing that they deserve to be treated badly. ...

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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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It does so by exploring both religion and science and to search for the principles of nature common to both. ... In a loose sense of the term, Communism can be considered a form of Theosophy, for in both societies everyone is working for a common good. ...

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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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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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Hume vs. Kant Two of the most prominent philosophers of their times, David Hume and Immanuel Kant both gave great contributions to the foundation of thoughts that concern the metaphysics of morals. Hume, followed later by Kant's theories touched on different themes such as justice, freedom, the k...

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How can one know with any sense of assurance that he or she is the same person they were last week, two years ago or thirty years ago? ... But still they would share some common personalities, thoughts and emotions. ...

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She was worn, common I tried to do it but it was no good and I didnt try hardly. ... It, therefore, creates a sense of sympathy towards Clegg; as he is a victim of a suffocated lifestyle, not being able to have a normal childhood. ...

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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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This was the common belief at this time "research such as Lorenz" (1974 cited in Brown 2007) put forward a biological theory arguing that conflict could be explained in terms of intrinsic aggressive instincts Tajfel believed that this 'blood and guts' model as he coined them did not account for the waxing and waning of political conflicts throughout the world. ... Motivational premises are not entirely excluded as individuals are motivated by the need to make sense and have a positive self image. ...

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In Thoreau's eyes, it is a common misconception that people think and believe what they are seeing is real. ... Last but not least, author Annie Dillard's essay "Sight into Insight," also demonstrates the same idea by encouraging her readers to not see things with their naked eyes but with their minds in a sense of feeling their surroundings. ...

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