The question about the nature of art, what it is or how it is to be measured/judged, has been asked over and over again by various people that have in turn came up with various answers. ... Lyotard, in his work The Sublime and The Avant-Garde, talks about the change in our understanding of art through the notion of the sublime, which he claims to be the driving force of the avant-garde. ... After this quasi-definition of the sublime in the first part of his paper Lyotard goes on to discuss the sublime with reference to a text on rhetoric that was written by Longinus and translated with commen...

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For some researchers it is important that the definition of Artificial Intelligence include only those techniques that actually reflect human cognitive processes. For others, the definition factor is that Artificial techniques are able to solve problems that would require intelligence if solved by humans, irrespective of whether the techniques employed reflect human cognition. It has also been suggested that for a definition of Artificial Intelligence to be applicable, the most important criterion is that the system can adapt to or learn from its environment ("Artificial Intelligence"...

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It does so by exploring both religion and science and to search for the principles of nature common to both. It explains things suck as how nature works, why things are the way they are, and what must be achieved in the goal of life. Vaughan gives a definition of Theosophy to be " a theosophist is one who gives you a theory of God, or the works of God, which has not revelation, but an inspiration of his own for its basis." ... An all-knowing and all-powerful force that governs everything. All consciousnesses are striving to become part of this force. ...

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Hume starts by explaining definitions of causes and characteristics that make up the popular definition of cause. ... Hume refutes the definition of cause as something productive of another, because cause and production are synonymous, and therefore one definition using the other is circular. ... Hume sees the second definition of cause as being more accurate. ... Perceptions that enter the body with force form impressions, including sensations, passions and emotions. ... The idea can differ in degree from the impression, but not in nature. ...

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The dictionary definition of colour describes the phenomena as a sensation produced on the eye by rays of light when resolved into different wavelengths, as by a prism, selective reflection, etc.1 ; inferring that the perception of colour is produced by a sensation' caused by differing wavelengths of light acting on the eye rather than colour being a property inherent in the object being viewed. ... This view is the one of the subjectivist and is the dominant perceived wisdom of our time, however the philosophy of colour has conceived many and different theories as to the nature of colo...

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Tajfel and Turner's social identity theory was set against the backdrop of post war Europe where theorists such as Asch (1954 cited in Brown 2007) argued that groups were a negative force which affected otherwise rational individual behaviour which ultimately lead to conflict. ...

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