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Reality Orientation
REALITY ORIENTATION Reality Orientation (RO) is a general philosophy of inpatient treatment for reducing confusion in geriatric patients. According to its philosophy, confusion results from (a) understimulation of the patient, (b) care providers Read more |
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skepticism
skepticism [Gr.,=to reflect], philosophic position holding that the possibility of knowledge is limited either because of the limitations of the mind or because of the inaccessibility of its object. It is more loosely used to denote any questioning attitude. Extreme skepticism holds that no... Read more |
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Reality
Reality BIBLIOGRAPHY In everyday usage, reality refers to the universe that exists independent of our thoughts. Dreams or delusions, which we experience when we are asleep or are otherwise not in full possession of our senses, are examples of the nonreal. In philosophy, this commonsense view... Read more |
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Leon Chwistek
CHWISTEK, LEON(1884–1944) Leon Chwistek, a Polish mathematical logician, philosopher, aesthetician, essayist, and painter, was a lecturer at the University of Kraków and from 1930 a professor of mathematical logic at the University of Lvov. Theory of Realities The central problem of... Read more |
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Parmenides
Parmenides , b. c.515 BC, Greek philosopher of Elea, leading figure of the Eleatic school . Parmenides' great contribution to philosophy was the method of reasoned proof for assertions. Parmenides began his argument with the assertion that being is the material substance of which the universe is... Read more |
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Omnipotence
Omnipotence Divine omnipotence means that God possesses all power and potency without any external limitation. The notion of omnipotence indicates a basic principle for the description of divine agency within monotheistic thought. However, in a monistic and emanative conception of God (e.g., as... Read more |
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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard , 1884-1962, French philosopher. He held degrees in physics, mathematics, and philosophy and taught at Dijon (1930-40) and the Univ. of Paris (1940-54). Bachelard regarded knowing as a result of the interaction between reason and experience. He rejected the notion of the empirical... Read more |
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Vedanta
Vedanta , one of the six classical systems of Indian philosophy. The term "Vedanta" has the literal meaning "the end of the Veda" and refers both to the teaching of the Upanishads , which constitute the last section of the Veda , and to the knowledge of its ultimate meaning. By extension... Read more |
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naturalism (philosophy)
naturalism in philosophy, a position that attempts to explain all phenomena and account for all values by means of strictly natural (as opposed to supernatural) categories. The particular meaning of naturalism varies with what is opposed to it. It is usually considered the opposite of idealism ,... Read more |
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idealism
idealism the attitude that places special value on ideas and ideals as products of the mind, in comparison with the world as perceived through the senses. In art idealism is the tendency to represent things as aesthetic sensibility would have them rather than as they are. In ethics it implies a... Read more |
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Mathew R. Martin. Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major...
...philosophical skepticism. This approach...since the philosophy of skepticism...appearance and reality, Martin's application of skepticism promises to...Theater and Philosophy reiterates...recent critical ... |
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A philosophy that makes sense of life.(Commentary)(Forum)
...s presupposition that nature equals reality, and that which is not physical is not...provides exhaustive knowledge of all reality. If love, logic, beauty, honesty...condemns science to be overwhelmed by skepticism (consider Phillip Johnson's "Reason... |
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Quinn, Dennis. Iris Exiled: a Synoptic History of Wonder.(Book Review)
...discipline of philosophy, which is...excursus and commentary, which is...together a working philosophy of education...with primary reality, the existent...soil of modern philosophy, which with its axiomatic skepticism ... |
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Self and World in Schopenhauer's Philosophy.
...Schopenhauer's Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon...and materialist philosophy of mind as a basis...that the world in reality is Will, that...Schopenhauer's philosophy on Nietzsche and...of sympathy and skepticism that makes his...qualifying his ... |
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Norman's conquest: a commentary on the Podhoretz legacy. (Norman Podhoretz)
...are quoting from Commentary articles written...assistant editor of Commentary--a job that...him. While at Commentary, Podhoretz wrote...they reveal the skepticism of a serious critic...complicated view of reality." Liberalism...indeed ... |
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Toril Moi. Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater,...
...Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University...approach to everyday reality. She gives extensive...frequently cites. "Skepticism" the "Ordinary...realistic planes of reality as in the method of...is cultural history, ... |
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What rough beast? Yeats, Nietzsche and historical rhetoric in "The Second...
...not believe his philosophy to be either...643-44). In reality this philosophy was neither completely...thoughts into philosophy" ("Nineteen...especially a skepticism regarding what...Two recent commentaries have underlined... |
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Multiculturalism and the Western tradition.(Commentary)(Forum)
...own advantage. This extreme skepticism is an abyss used to destroy...end is the long historical reality of Realpolitik; politics...then a prescriptive political philosophy can be transcultural, and...sciences, literature, and philosophy reached agreement on ... |
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Voltaire's Candide , medical students, and mentoring.(Commentary)
...with experience. Hopefully, skepticism will not overwhelm them...navigation of expectations and reality during their professional maturation...Pangloss: the optimistic philosophy of the student's pre-morbid...who teaches an optimistic philosophy that is the ... |
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Relativity and relativism; Something higher than the 'I'.(COMMENTARY)
...said to be quite different. One is a philosophy in the realm of culture and morals...the observer in the driver's seat. Reality becomes observer-dependent. Again...cultural applications. Now there is skepticism about both. Maybe, in time, they also... |
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