A priori

Gordon 5 destroy to create an adult?’. The depressed person, however, is the inversion of child and adult in that they tread the traceable threads back to childhood, against the forces towing the line towards adulthood. The child garners much glee when they begin to walk: “‘Now we have heard enough of the tight-rope walker; let us see him, too!’”. A ‘tightrope state’ in the ethical imprisonment of the ‘child’ (the ‘self as other’) and ethical administration by the ‘adult’ (the ‘self for other’).…

Essentialism and Standard English are socially-constructed concepts which stand together in upholding a hierarchy that perpetuates ethnic inequality by privileging a dominant group. This privileged group is the white male, whose culture permeates into all other cultures, subtly altering and eliciting behavior to conform to the white male’s norms. Social scientists acknowledge and personify such influence of and social pressure from this culture with notions such as “white gaze,” which depict a…

“ If it always costs, we are always ready to afford” Most people have become fully acquainted with the side effects of science and technology. They know very well that all the technological innovations have serious effects on their health, social lives and the environment. However, all of them have been ready to pay whatever the cost has been. Therefore, I don’t think that greater scientific literacy at all levels of society has had a positive impact on our attitude towards science and…

Even though the empiricist approach does have flaws, it has been the most consistent in our search of knowledge about our natural world. Additionally, to compare metaphysics to empirical observation, we must consider metaphysics to uphold both an a priori and a posteriori inquiry. ¬¬¬¬This can be inferred from how concepts of metaphysics do not involve possibilities, but real things that we as humanity have deduced from empirical observations. In other words, if metaphysics concerns itself with…

Following this further, Boeker (2017) demonstrates from John Locke’s notion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, suggesting that the theory of personal identity very much exists as being classified as a combination of what he’s coined as sameness and closeness. In this case, sameness and closeness represent in a similar fashion what the soul-continuity theory initially did, that the relationship between the two and their distinctions exist as a fusion resulting from…

should apply to everyone in the same way. Thus, bringing us to the fact that action from duty has to be an categorical imperative, meaning that everyone should and would be able to act the same way, sharing equal positioning. Lastly, Kant presents A priori ideas, which in term is a special kind of idea that tells you about the possibility of human experience, however these experiences don’t depend on experience that you have already had, but are supplied by reason in order to make sense of an…

Introduction In spite of the nebulousness inherent in determining and measuring expertise, crowdsourcing systems in research and practice that seek to acquire distributed knowledge (e.g. citizen science) indicate a preference for expert contributors. To ensure information quality (IQ), consumers – users of data acquired from such crowdsourcing projects – implement gatekeeping strategies that vary in degree of subtleness and intentionality. These gatekeeping strategies stem from the underlying…

Rosalind Krauss, Originality of the Avante-Garde " Originality of the Avante-Garde" - the most famous book of Krauss - is a collection of essays written and published primarily in the 1980s. In them, Krauss analyzes the most varied stories of the history of art modernism - from Duchamp and Giacometti to Sol Levitt and Ellsworth Kelly. However, examining the art of the twentieth century, she constantly calls into question the very position of the researcher, the conceptual framework in which…

Clinical Practice Guideline: Allergic Rhinitis One of the most common diseases affecting both adults and children alike is allergic rhinitis (AR). According to Seidman et al. (2015) “AR is an inflammatory, IgE-mediated disease characterized by nasal congestion, rhinorrhea, sneezing, and/or nasal itching” (p. S2). In the United States allergic rhinitis affects approximately one in every six individuals. Allergic rhinitis has the ability to affect quality of life for adults and children alike.…

morality and ethics works. Although they share the common interest of moral and ethical foundations, their theories could not be any more different from each other. Hume’s treatment of moral philosophy is empirical while Kant believes morality lies in priori principles. David Hume truly believed that human experience is the closest we can ever get to the truth. He believes that our causal beliefs are not based on reason but that we form a habit of association based on experience. To Hume…