„Possible Worlds‟ by Robert C. Stalnaker from Cornell University. The author Robert C. Stalnaker is probably best known as one of the founders along with David Lewis of the possible world theory of conditionals and counterfactuals. Stalnaker takes the possible world framework as a method to look at some problems in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of mind. In this paper, the author recognises four theses in what he calls David Lewis‟s extreme realism about possible worlds. The author explains the reasons
journalist, well-known for his eccentric and individualistic writings. His devotion to the World of Soccer has prompted him to write a perspicacious and thrilling book on the sport. The extract is from the book “How soccer explains the world: An unlikely theory of Globalization” which was published on June 29th 2004. The book presents a unique and brilliantly illuminating look at soccer, the world’s most popular sport, as a lens through which to view the pressing issues of our age, from the clash of civilizations
that dialetheia is a sentence which is both true and false. Dialetheism is the view that some statements can be both true and false simultaneously. More precisely, it is the belief that there can be a true statement whose negation is also true. Such statements are called "true contradictions", dialetheia, or nondualisms. Dialetheism is not a system of formal logic; instead, it is a thesis about truth that influences the construction of a formal logic, often based on pre-existing systems
thinkers have always been contested or proved that there are theories for that as well. Falsification is a concept invented by Karl Popper which holds that a scientific hypothesis cannot be true but can 'pass' tests. By creating the framework of Falsification, Popper tried to distinguish between real science, real scientific approaches and pseudoscience and virtue and morals disguised as real scholarship. In this essay, Popper's falsification theory will be explained and related to two components of the
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd” - Voltaire Cartesian/radical scepticism (RS) is not a philosophical position but rather a paradox which permeates the on-going epistemological debate and poses a severe problem for the existence of knowledge. The paradox leads us, on surface value, to believe that we don’t actually know anything at all. This is because, as Descartes says, we cannot rule out the possibility that we are victims of sceptical hypotheses (SH) - “scenarios in
Property dualism is the best answer to the mind body problem. Without separating the mind and the body using the substance dualism point of view. This viewpoint of property dualism covers the problem of separating a physical body and the mind. The thesis statement of this paper is to discuss the issues of the mind-body problem arguing for the viewpoint of Property Dualism and refuting against it with the physicalist argument. The Mind Body problem is the question of the interaction between the idea of
advertising strategies are embraced. While several attempts have been made to incorporate advertising on YouTube, new ideas are continuously appearing, causing the layout of the website to remain transitional and in a state of constant update. In this thesis, we are going to study how YouTube is actually affecting the TV's role in many ways, from attracting talent managers, brokers, production companies to advertising agencies and marketers. In other words, we are going to examine how YouTube is affecting
content. The second sense of ‘empty’ is the ‘determining’. Systematic Interpretation of Emptiness Charge views as Hegel’s empty charge a non-self-standing philosophical problem, irrespective of its historical context or systematic place in Hegel’s theory. The will must be acting on a law and cannot be acting merely randomly. The only law follows a law like, e.g. universalizable maxim. Law-giving force is reciprocal with moral law in the Analytic, when one is following the moral will, one is acting
writers are, what the prevailing theories and hypotheses are, what questions are being asked, and what methodologies and methods are appropriate and useful. It covers everything relevant that is written on a topic such as books, journal articles,
Forward after the death of in excess of thirty million people, Mao confronted a political backlash when facing unwilling self-criticism in the 7,000 Cadres meeting in the early months of 1962. The following few years saw a re-emergence of pragmatic theory from Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi which displeased Mao, eventually leading to a power struggle which would begin the disastrous Cultural Revolution in 1966. The extremely high levels of violence and chaos however don’t attribute themselves to the