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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"fact and value"”.
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Conceptual schemes and human (inter)action: disentangling fact and value for a broader vision
… in human affairs. Conceptual schemes involve values and beliefs, assumptions and presuppositions that originate in past experience and, projected onto new observations, guide what is seen, what is considered salient, and what is overlooked or dismissed. Paradigms (in the sense of exemplars) …
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Staðreyndir og gildi : íslensk þýðing á kaflanum Fact and value í bókinni Reason, truth, and history eftir Hilary Putnam
… fer á eftir er íslensk þýðing á kaflanum Fact and value í bók bandaríska heimspekingsins Hilary Putnams Reason, truth, and history sem fyrst kom út árið 1981. Í kaflanum fjallar Putnam um tvíhyggju staðreynda og gilda sem hann telur að eigi sér djúpar rætur í vestrænni …
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The dilemma of mind in contemporary Buddhism : some British testimony
… entity. Without some dialogue between religion and science in order to resolve differences of fact and value, the dilemma of the competing plausibility of scientific and religious mind-theories may diminish the social acceptance of science and the social relevance of religion. In order to …
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Decision-making for acceptable risk in contaminated site problems in British Columbia
… District. These problems are complicated and multi-dimensional, and raise fundamental concerns about the risks to human and environmental health. This thesis shows however, that there are no easy answers to how much risk is "acceptable", and no one right way to decide. How the acceptable …
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The metaphysics of Wilbur M. Urban
1. PROBLEM AND METHOD This investigation is an attempt to organize and evaluate the metaphysical system contained in the writings of Wilbur M. Urban by an examination of his theory of knowledge, of value, and of reality. 2. SUMMARY OF THE INVESTIGATION For Urban the metaphysical task is the …