Vagueness

The concept of dao (the Way) has been a fundamental component to various schools of Chinese philosophy, in particular the school of Confucianism and Daoism. Xunzi, a Confucian scholar, and the Laozi, the Daoist text otherwise known as the Daodejing), illustrate how the concept of dao integrated in all aspects of life of ancient Chinese civilians. Though they share similarities in the audience consuming their working definition of dao, there are certainly disparities in the ideologies of the Way…

One of the most heated topics in education today is the current implication of the Common Core State Standards. Created by education leaders and the governors from 48 of the 50 United States (Texas’ Rick Perry and Alaska’s Sarah Palin refused to participate) and the District of Columbia (Murphy) the CCSS was deigned to prepared students for college, and get schools away from curriculums that catered to standardized tests. The creators also hoped that it would create an even benchmark for…

Advertising has been a part of society for a long time. This powerful form of communication reaches millions of people, informing and persuading them to purchase a product or service. Advertisements have never been as powerful and persuasive as it is today. The availability of many different products makes it very challenging to induce consumers to try something new on the market. Advertisers compete with each other like never before trying to gain the customers’ attention. They are tempted to…

In the case of abortion, both the moral and physical statuses of the fetus in regards to their humanity or personhood serve as pivotal points to the ongoing debate regarding the moral justifiability on the termination of a pregnancy. Through this, popular arguments often involve an attempt of denying the personhood of a fetus in comparison to ourselves, and if proven, would allow for the moral permissibility of abortion, and the converse for affirming the personhood of the fetus. In this, it…

In Susan Wolf’s paper “The Meanings of Lives,” she discusses the qualifications of and the innate human yearning for a meaningful and fulfilling life. The foundation for her argument lies in her three criterion for meaning which include involvement, purpose, and success. She then continues her argument by explaining the opposite of each of these criterion as a stereotypical person. However, Wolf’s assertion suffers from being overly general in that it makes the assumption that all humans have…

other people who won't follow him or are a threat to his plans. The prophecy orb describes who has the potential to foil his plans and defeat him, so that connects him to the orbs. The orbs are also connected to Neville Longbottom because of the vagueness of the description of the boy who has the potential to defeat Lord Voldemort. Neville was born at the end of July and his parents defied Voldemort, which qualifies him as the potential chosen one. The orbs are also connected to Sybill Trelawney…

Ignorance is living a comfortable life with eyes shut down, it is a subject that has been depicted in both stories Bliss and Marriage à la Mode that through their ignorance and materialism awful realizations conflicted the main characters. In Bliss where a young married couples lack intimacy and connections whose concerns revolves around their modernity, reality have hit them with a shocking affair. In Marriage à la mode where a life changing decision is being postponed for temporary amusements…

The Purpose of this extended analysis will be to examine the degree of compliance of Toronto-Dominion Bank’s (TD) privacy policy with that of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). This paper will discuss course concepts such as the dignity vs property approach when discussing safeguard recommendations. The focus of this paper will be PIPEDA, but other notions such as the privacy vs secrecy debate will be introduced and explained throughout this paper. Certain…

What if we could subject the human consciousness to analysis purely using reason? Transcendental idealism is a philosophy associated with Immanuel Kant and his Critique of Pure Reason. According to an article by Nicholas Stang in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy it is a rebuke of previous philosophies which were immaterial, doubting or outright denying the existence of matter. It postulates that things do in fact exist, but are separated from the human consciousness. Transcendental…

Seeing the many definitions, the difference concerning supply chain, and the conception supply chain management, all has an appearance of vagueness in respect to descriptions of the two different focuses. The idea supply chain management appears to be vague in definition, by means of words that are not clearly defined. Not giving clarity as to where does a method or flow finish? How one is constructed…