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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Purposiveness"”.
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Pragmatism and the Problem of Mind in Nature
… grow out of, and are embodied in, the natural purposiveness of organisms and the difference that language and linguistic practices make to that natural purposiveness in the human context. I canvass the history of the pragmatist tradition of wrestling with this question in order to understand …
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Early Greek Philosophy and the Discovery of Nature
… conceptions of nature are marked by elements of purposiveness. Far from being anti-teleological, then, the Presocratic polysemous concept of nature serves as a vital first step in the development of early forms of purposiveness in nature into the more robust teleological conceptions found in …
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Museums That "Matter": An Analysis of Four History Museums
… and specifically his four evaluative criteria of purposiveness, capability, effectiveness, and efficiency — are employed in this study in order to evaluate four history museums — the building for the protection of the royal tombs of Vergina, Greece, the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki, …
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Adaptations of the Beautiful: Natural Theological Aesthetics from Paley to Darwin
… teleological challenge of intrinsic aesthetic purposiveness. Sexual selection provided a way to explain the aesthetic correlation between subject and object, with animals selecting for the conspecifics they found beautiful, and so materialising the ideal of their faculty of taste within the …
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“The way I see it is… Whole-School Evaluation in Irish Post-Primary Schools from the perspectives of principals, teachers, parents and students”
… talk about WSE, the study identifies themes Purposiveness and Relationships that shape the participants’ perceptions of WSE. Two additional themes, specific to particular groups of respondents, were also uncovered. The Implementation theme arose from the principals’ talk and …
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Environmentalists and their politics : an analysis of protest strategy in the politics of some Australian environmentalists
… any large discontented group. To demonstrate the purposiveness and normality of protest in the Australian environmental movement, the thesis develops four profiles of Australian environmentalists; Management-Oriented Conservationists, MorallyResponsible Scientists, Radical Environmentalists and …
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Environmentalists and their politics : an analysis of protest strategy in the politics of some Australian environmentalists
… any large discontented group. To demonstrate the purposiveness and normality of protest in the Australian environmental movement, the thesis develops four profiles of Australian environmentalists; Management-Oriented Conservationists, MorallyResponsible Scientists, Radical Environmentalists and …
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The Bardic Style In The Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, And Dylan Thomas
… of bardic poetry--its orality, formality, and purposiveness--are, in the opinion of this study, what gives rise to some of the more provocative aspects of the poetry of Hopkins, Yeats, and Thomas.;Each poet is discussed separately, but the shape of each discussion is the same. First, the poet's …
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Drawing perception : an analysis of the tectonics of drawing process and their influence on the structure of visual perception.
… of process, to a conscious understanding of the purposiveness of each mark made. The study concludes with a reflection on the research period in response to the hypothesis outlining the original contribution to knowledge, before positing possible future areas for further research.
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The Perpetual Finishing of Nature and reason Kant on Work, creativity, and individual fulfillment
Following clues suggested by Merleau-Ponty regarding Kantian intentionality, we lay out a phenomenological reading of Kant wherein aesthetic experience offers a unity of self and community, now and across time. What is new in our understanding is that the unity we articulate is not the abstract …
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Overriding the choices of mental health service users; a study examining the acute mental health nurse’s perspective
… is an idiographic mode of inquiry where sample purposiveness and analytical depth is more important than sample size. On this basis, six qualified mental health nurses were recruited who have used coercive strategies while nursing service users in acute mental distress. The semi-structured …
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Time, Self, and the Other in a Rural Chinese Township
… thought: the antinomies between moment and purposiveness, utility and uselessness, transience and eternity, waste and acquisition, work and play, while proposing rhythm as the ground for reconciliation between them. Last but not least, it sheds light on a locally prominent model of …