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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"objective reality"”.
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Transcendental Idealism, Transcendental Realism, and the Possibility of Objective Reference
… realism, the idea that there really exists an objective world that we can come to know through experience. I maintain that, according to Kant, the possibility of coming to know objective reality depends upon the possibility of referring to objects, which itself, Kant thinks, can be explained by …
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Transcendental Idealism, Transcendental Realism, and the Possibility of Objective Reference
… realism, the idea that there really exists an objective world that we can come to know through experience. I maintain that, according to Kant, the possibility of coming to know objective reality depends upon the possibility of referring to objects, which itself, Kant thinks, can be explained by …
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Possible Relationships between Realism and Comprehension in Elementary School Age Children
… hypothesizes that a greater understanding of objective reality would impact a child’s listening comprehension. To conduct the study, 32 elementary school children aged from six to eleven that attend an after-school daycare were tested for a five-week period. Students were given four different …
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"""To Know if There Is Something or Nothing"": The Relationship Between Fiction and Reality in the Works of Stephane Mallarme, Samuel Beckett, Louis -Rene Des Forets and J. M. G. Le Clezio"
… on the relationship between fiction and reality. The first chapter explores how Mallarme deconstructs fiction and analyses its effects on the readers to convey reality. It also shows the poet's efforts to prove that the mind possesses a power of fiction that can represent an absolute and …
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Christian apologetics in transition : from C. S. Lewis to Frederick Buechner and Susan Howatch.
… from William Placher), avoiding any appeal to objective reality in justifying Christian truth-claims. Chapter Five recapitulates the apologetic territory I have covered.
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Empty caves
… escape and a need to engage with an horrendous "objective" reality. In other words, his struggle is between poetry and plain speaking; between art and science. 3) The Poems, which form a group of forty written throughout 1997/8. They have been thoroughly edited several times over, in close …
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Chesterton, modernism, and the representation of reality
… crisis of representation - the doubt that any reality, other than that which is subjective, can ever be known or represented. I suggest that this turn towards subjectivity exposed the modern world firstly to a kind of negative liberalism that tends to dehumanise politics, and secondly to an …
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Manufacturing History and Identity: A Study on the Teacher of Righteousness, Collective Memory, and Tradition at Qumran
… of the Teacher as a tradition rather than objective reality. Furthermore, this thesis looks to display substantial continuity between the scrolls' presentation of the Teacher of Righteousness and biblical heroes abound the memory of the Qumran sectarians. In arguing for a fictitious Teacher …
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A position on architectural education
… are built on a foundation of theory and objective reality. However, the fundamental underpinning of knowledge and theory lies in our perception of reality itself. The old cliche, “you don’t know what you have until you lose it,” is a perspective from which we can evaluate that which …
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Careful Design: Using multi-modal data and virtual reality to bridge the subjectivity gap in architectural space-making.
… architecture. But does it have to be? Virtual Reality provides the unique affordance of rapidly testing and adapting virtual environments to the real-time biofeedback, eye-tracking and self-reports of the beholder. Something that brick-and-mortar architecture is unable to achieve at sufficient …
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Assessing students in English for Academic Purposes: The role of alternative assessment tools in writing instruction
… and experience the same non-manipulated objective reality. The participants in this study are students and lecturers of the English for Academic Purposes course at the University of Namibia Language Centre. The study employs a qualitative research design, along with triangulation, where …
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The Social and the Real: The Idea of Objectivity in Peirce, Brandom, and Mcdowell
… take to be correct differs from what is correct objectively. In McDowells case, the problem of the objectivity of norms forms a part of his wider ontological project. This project aims to answer the question of how experience can be conceptually framed through and through, and yet constitute an …
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Biosemiotics as systems theory: an investigation into biosemiotics as the grounding for a new form of cultural analysis
… of 'representation' in favour of purely objective reality, and recasting 'motivation' in terms of cybersemiotic constraints.
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The future does not have a definite form
… rests on the belief of the existence of an objective reality which structures our attempts at creating. What does it imply about t he influence we have on our future , if the environment we live in is a predetermined stasis? How objective is "what exists" ? Can form and spatial practices be …
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A naturalistic journey into the collaboratory: In search of understanding for prospective participants
… regard to geographic location. In Phase One, an objective reality of the collaboratory is constructed from the documents made accessible through the world's libraries. Taxonomy construction and quantitative and qualitative data analysis are used to investigate and prove as practiced principles …
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Through the Gnostic Threshold: Analogical Space in Swedenborg and Blake
… written records of their visions. The objective reality of their visions is perhaps irrelevant to the Romantic spirit--for they provide us with what Wordsworth lauded as "Intimations of Immortality." We who stand in their presence can spend a few moments in the wonder, joy, and perhaps …
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Freedom in Existence: A Comparative Study of the Poetics of Emily Dickinson and Sohrab Sepehri
… method of experimentation in synthesizing the objective reality. Shaped by the social atmosphere to which each belonged, Sepehri and Dickinson’s art is representative of a “speculative mode of cognition” described by Hegel as dialectical.</p>
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Danger and death: organisational and occupational responses to the murder of police in South Africa - a case study
… police construct danger as much as danger, as an objective reality, shapes the police’s experience of danger and their responses to danger. Danger can be said to have both an objective and subjective reality – it is at once constituted and constitutive. The findings illustrate that danger is given …
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Reconciling humans with nature : using Marx's dialectical materialism to critically explore philosophy and politics in contemporary environmentalism and to develop a perspective on environmental justice
Nature exists as an objective reality on which human beings rely physically and spiritually. We are part of nature. But throughout human and environmental history 'nature' has also existed as a human idea and cultural construct. We project our values, fears, and aspirations onto our environment so …
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