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Practical Cognition
<view this essay>.... way. The truth value of a judgement is due to
the usefulness of accepting or rejecting the judgement. A statement is true if
accepting it makes a positive difference or has a helpful influence and it is
false if accepting it causes difficulty or dissatisfaction. The meaning of a
statement is the practical result of accepting the statement. In general, then,
the truth or falsity of a statement is relative, not only to the individual
accepting or rejecting the statement, but also to the circumstances in which
that person finds himself. Truth is relative, but Marx is not an extreme
relativist (no one to be taken seriously is) because there is a constraint to
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Our Free Will
<view this essay>.... P.S. de Laplace's “Philosophical Essay on
Probabilities.” If such determinism is true, then everyone's every thought and
action must be inevitable; that no one really has any choice about anything,
because we are all helpless products of blind forces which have made us what we
are. In this paper concerning the free will and determinism debate I will
argue that determinism is not plausible, I shall do this by giving reasons for
determining how determinism is false, give arguments for determinism, and then
refute those arguments.
There are those who think that our behavior is a result of free choice,
but there are others who presume “we are servants of cosmi .....
Number of words: 1091 | Number of pages: 4 |
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Indian Culture Vs Western Cult
<view this essay>.... the western and Indian cultures were religion, marriage, and social interaction.
The western culture is predominantly of the Christian faith praying to one God. Growing up in the Hindu faith, I always wondered why my mother used to pray to many Gods. As I became older, I built up the courage to ask a Pandit (Indian Priest) why we believed in many Gods whereas all the others believed only in one. He had informed me that we only believe in one God, Lord Shiva. It may appear that we are praying to many Gods, but in fact we are praying to the many forms that he appeared to us on earth.
The Hindu and the Christian religious beliefs are predominantly very si .....
Number of words: 1571 | Number of pages: 6 |
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Money And Information
<view this essay>.... throughout the world. Still lives in Belgravia and as yet no real money has been found or traced to him.
Colombian cartels use corporate criminals in Europe to launder their drug money.
Introduction
The intention of this paper is to highlight the different levels of computer crime in Europe and to examine the various motives involved. One interesting factor, from my point of view, is how the ‘traditional’ organised economic crime has adapted to the worldwide potential of globalisation. Although globalisation has led to the blurring of the distinction between economic crime and organised crime residual elements remain. The global network has made econom .....
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Measuring Thickness Of Concret
<view this essay>.... core. This apparatus must
conform to certain requirements. It needs to be designed so
that the specimens will be held with its axis in a vertical
position by three symmetrically placed studs or posts of
hardened steel bearing against the lower end. The end of the
studs that bear against the surface of the specimen need to be
rounded to a radius of not less than 6 mm and not more than
13 mm. The apparatus needs to allow for the measuring of
specimens of different nominal lengths over a range of at
least 100 to 250 mm. It needs to be made in order to make
a measurement at the center of the upper end of the specimen
and at eight addit .....
Number of words: 673 | Number of pages: 3 |
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Gambling Is Good For Our Commu
<view this essay>.... during the 1992/93 was approximately 1.2 billion dollars. By 1995/96 the number had increased to almost 1.7 billion dollars and such a number is reaching to 2 billion dollars. Gambling has become a socially acceptable source of entertainment and government revenue. Groups from B.C. have differing reasons to support or oppose legalized gambling and the expansion of gambling from government who receive large amount of money every year from the gambling industry.
Gambling today is no longer simply a matter of the traditional bingo night for a local charity organization. The gambling industry at the end of 1990s is quite different from the past. Gambli .....
Number of words: 937 | Number of pages: 4 |
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Witchcraft
<view this essay>.... to know more about other alternatives simply gives us more possibilities to choose. Due to centuries of bad press, general impression of is all about evils, Magick, and spells. In fact, it may just be a religion that believes in Gods and the harmonic relationship between humans and the natural environment. This research paper is to redefine, in more accurate words, the truth of one of the oldest religion in the world.
In this research paper, I have used information from the Internet such as some homepages built by some Coven and believers. I also used books that are mainly about the general structure of the Craft and its religion "Wicca". I have also had an i .....
Number of words: 4771 | Number of pages: 18 |
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Heros Essay
<view this essay>.... of modern times come into your mind's eye? Did a police officer, a fire fighter, or some hero of war enter your brain? If they did and they make up your answer, then, from a certain perspective, you are correct. However, if such characters were all that you thought of, then you are also indisputably very, very wrong. It is certainly acceptable to look upon such people as heroes, but not expanding the horizons of the word also suggests a lack of scope or vision. Such people fit a dictionary's description of "hero", but in defining this word, one finds the dictionary falls short of the obligation of properly defining it. Everyone can be, and probably is, a .....
Number of words: 1898 | Number of pages: 7 |
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