Abstraction

The thinker George Berkeley contended against the notion of material substance existing. He built his argument from stringing together a series of claims on being and epistemology, and using them to attack belief in matter and dismiss it. Berkeley begins his argument with an attack on abstract thinking. He claims that generalities do not exist and the qualities of an object cannot exist outside of it. Notions of abstract ideas are made up and mistaken; that they cannot actually be thought off.…

The exhibit tells me a lot about the background of Viki, one of the basket makers in the United States or specifically in Indiana. Besides that, the exhibit also tells me a lot about the process of making baskets. The process might be difficult for someone who is not familiar to basket making. There are three essential tools that are needed to make baskets and the tools are spitzka, pruning shears and pocketknife. All of these tools are required to shape and bend the willow to become a perfect…

Abstraction can be defined as an art in which the subjects of a painting or sculpture are symbolic with the emphasis of specific elements including form, line, and color. The rise of abstraction varies according to each region around the world, as well as the impacts made on societies by local and global events. In my opinion, the catalyst for abstraction in art history was during the 1800’s when art became reactionary. This was during the time of industrialism and revolution. In response to…

In the movie “True Grit,” an unrelenting fourteen year old girl named Mattie Ross, brings it upon herself to avenge her father’s death after the outlaw known as Tom Chaney murders him and flees the territory. The young farm girl quickly seeks out to hire the U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn, who is just as familiar with whisky as he is with guns, to track down Chaney. Shortly after this quarreling duo set out on their man hunt, they are accompanied by a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf. However, the…

Beauty is a difficult concept to describe. Many philosopher’s strive to attain some semblance of what beauty is but by doing so they often times contradict another philosopher’s idea on the matter. Examining two philosophers, or more, side-by-side can provide insight into why beauty is a hard concept to grasp, but it does not examine why the philosophers either agree or disagree with one another. Kant’s Critique of Judgement attempts to specify what makes something beautiful and in doing so…

upset and can also occur different children to bully the less confident children in different areas of development. On the other hand, children with differences such as deaf will need support from one another for them to be able to understand the tasks that are given to the particular child. Therefore for the child to understand sign language would be needed when doing all types of play. Although to make the child feel comfortable and equal sign language must be done while talking to all…

The Effect of an Individual’s Mood on his or her Weather preferences People have always wondered how the body and mind interacted. Some people believe that they did not interact at all. For example, Plato believed that the mind and the body were two separate entities (University of Richmond Department of Psychology, 2015). However, recently, there is evidence that a person’s body does influence his or her cognition. It is known as Embodied Cognition, which is built off Metaphor theory. Metaphor…

The four skill builder concepts that I feel pertained to my experiences this quarter were other-centered messages, initiating conversation, clarifying supportive intentions, and describing feelings. Starting with other-centered messages I feel that I used this skill throughout this quarter. A particular example that comes to mind with my utilizing of this skill is just recently when I had a conversation with my sister, Danielle. My sister Danielle is currently taking a break from classes from BC…

The idea of dying, and death itself is something that one normally has dread for, yet for some it is acceptable as life. In Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Because I could not stop for Death,” the speaker depicts her encounter with Death as being part of a rather pleasant experience. To help shift away the negative perspective generally attributed to death, Dickinson creates an intimate connection between the subject and the speaker through the implementation and manipulation of various literary…

labelled ‘Good Company’. Assuming we have successfully constructed an account of acceptability which helps us to rule out ‘bad’ principles; there is another question that neo-Fregean logicists to answer. Why is it that only the stipulation of ‘good’ abstraction principles earn such a special epistemic status and no other kind of stipulation does? The fundamental difference between Direct Stipulations and Bad Company Objection is that where former seeks conditions to rule out…