Chatwin uses language in order to mask his text as a piece of travel writing. As a travel writer, Chatwin has an excellent evocation of place and uses descriptive language well. ... Chatwin's theory in essence is this. ... Chatwin's unifying theory is what Rushdie could be referring to as the "poetic truth" in this book. ... The theory is so amalgamating that it could be seen as too idealistic; it attempts to unite the entire world under one connecting, universal explanation. ...

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Language and arithmetic abilities are controlled by the left hemisphere, so when someone is thinking about something to do with these subjects, they tend to look to the right. ... The aim is to test the theory of eye gaze as an indicator of hemispheric arousal. ... Therefore, the results reject the theory of eye gazing as an indicator of hemispheric arousal. ... My results relate to the theory when it came to left hemispheric arousal because the average subject looked to the right when thinking about the answer, but when it came to right hemispheric arousal my results rejected the theory. .....

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Realism, liberalism, world systems theory, environmentalism, feminism, islamism and constructivism help organize our views of world politics theoretically. ... Those two theories have devastating consequences for Mother Nature. ... Rourke defines Constructivism as a theory that contends that ideas, language and communications created a subjective reality that we mistake for objective reality and that causes us to create structures that reinforce our perceptions. ... Realism and liberalism are the two leading theories in world politics. ... Criticalism groups a set of theories including world s...

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Socrates uses suggestive questioning and limiting language such as: "you know that a square figure is like this" (82b) "Do you agree?" ... In reality the language and persuasion Socrates uses teaches the attendant about the geometry of which attendant had no prior knowledge, even in his soul. ... Hidden under the facade of recollection the attendant acquired the knowledge from Socrates, this is contrary to the theory that knowledge is recalled from the soul. Therefore, in Socrates" primary example he contradicts his theory of knowledge. ... Socrates" theory that all knowledge is held in each...

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This theory later leads on to Nietzsche's concept of the Ubermensch. ... Nietzsche accuses language of making us believe in simple oppositions, when in reality there is only "degrees and many subtleties of variation". For Nietzsche, language does not neutrally reflect the world, nor does thought in some way transcend language. Rather, language fixes and determines the way in which we perceive. ... Immediate certainties are mainly associated with Descartes" foundationalist theories, most importantly the famous Cogito argument. ...

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Their mind is one of man's greatest mysteries; no man has ever been able to translate their line of thought into our understandable language. ... There are many theories, some say they"re from Venus, that's wrong; some say they were sent directly from heaven by God to give us some good things in this world, to make it worthwhile, as much as I would agree with this one, it's also wrong; the truth is that they"re from Mercury, that's why they're so hot. ...

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Their mind is one of man's greatest mysteries; no man has ever been able to translate their line of thought into our understandable language. ... There are many theories, some say they"re from Venus, that's wrong; some say they were sent directly from heaven by God to give us some good things in this world, to make it worthwhile, as much as I would agree with this one, it's also wrong; the truth is that they"re from Mercury, that's why they're so hot. ...

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According to Professor Richard Evans of Cambridge University: "postmodernism is a convenient label covering a wide variety of positions, not a unitary body of theory, and recognizes that some of these positions are mutually contradictory or antagonistic" (In Defense of History: Reply to Critics)." ... The writer found it almost impossible to read this article without a dictionary to decipher the hieroglyphic language used throughout this article. ... It is always important to question the validity of current dogmas and approach each idea and theory with an open mind....

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Along the years a problem has come into our society, a crisis has invaded the whole world. It is not hard to recognize this problem but Keith Windschuttle does an excellent job in clarifying it in our minds. The problem he identified was how the telling of history was becoming disturbed by the subj...

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