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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"perspectivism"”.
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Rhetorical Perspectivism: an Epistemologically Meaningful Response to Incommensurability
… response to incommensurability. Rhetorical perspectivism is reviewed as a theory of rhetorical epistemology, and applied to the McLean v. Arkansas evolution/creation trial. The study found that the theory provides significant insight into the creation/evolution conflict. The results suggest …
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Nietzsche's perspectivism and the revaluation of values
… of horizons and whatever else pertains to perspectivism." This statement raises a number of significant questions: What exactly is perspectivism? What does it mean for value judgments, or anything for that matter, to be perspectival? And why does Nietzsche think that it is important that …
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Revelations: Spirituality as Privileged Perspectivism in Magical Realist Distortions
<p>This thesis examines the role of spiritual beliefs in the literary mode now known as magical realism in Cuban Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World (1949), Indian-Born British and American Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), and a lesser-known novel, Household Saints (1981) by …
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Nietzsche's Theory of Cognition: An Interpretation and Defense of Perspectivism
<p>Friedrich Nietzsche has long been recognized as a pivotal thinker in the history of moral philosophy, but until the last quarter century his importance for our understanding of the concepts of truth and knowledge had been largely ignored in English-language scholarship. In my dissertation, I add …
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Towards establishing an epistemological position for library and information science
… An epistemological position called holistic perspectivism is proposed as one which satisfies the postulated criteria. A graphic model of this position is explained as a means of demonstrating the application of holistic perspectivism in given areas of the knowledge-transfer role of library …
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Aprendendo com a experiência: princípios arteducativos para o ensino da dança entre carlos moraes e o projeto axé
… discussions on teaching, decoloniality, afro-perspectivism within the context of art-education of the AXÉ Project were added.
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Nietzsche on "Life": An Examination of the Metaphors and their Significance
… at the same time speaking to his emphasis on perspectivism. The thesis closes with a reflection on Nietzsche’s notion of the “affirmation of life” wherein this thesis argues that the diversity of accounts of life Nietzsche provides can find something of a unity.
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Effect of restructuring training and field-dependence-independence
… verbal disambiguating task, and a task of visual perspectivism. Training effect was observed in field dependents for all three test tasks.
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The Path Toward the Other: Relational Subjectivity in Modern Chinese Literature, 1919-1945
… especially those shaped by multiple-perspectivism, non-hierarchy and horizontal ways of seeing. Finally, this research offers possibilities for locating an alternative beginning for modern Chinese conceptualizations of self in community.
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The chronology of Waikato pā: A spatio-temporal investigation of pā in the middle Waikato basin
… Dates are interpreted using the theory of time perspectivism, focusing on three distinct scales of analysis: Event, Local, and Regional. The event scale of analysis successfully produced twenty high-precision felling dates on posts recovered from Lake Mangakaware 1 (MA1), Lake Mangakaware 2 …
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Nietzsche's Dialogic Ethic After Illusion: Rhetoric and Difference
… architectonic Nietzschean metaphors of perspectivism, genealogy, and revaluation of values, producing a dialogic ethic of meeting. This outcome interprets otherwise the work, as Levinas also does, of whom many consider the founder of deconstruction, Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche's …
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Suspensions, Expulsions, and The Black Masculine Student-Body: The Problematization of Exclusionary Discipline in Schools
… discourse. This is accomplished by an exhaustive perspectivism, whereby an event [discipline in schools] is explored from a particular view of the ‘situated’ researcher (Howarth, 2008). It is not simply a look at the modern exclusions of black male students; rather, a critical look into how the …
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A revaluation of tolerance and toleration : a Selective Incorporation of Classical Conceptions of Tolerance
This dissertation aims to revitalise and revalue a currently disregarded conceptual field of tolerance, and explores the prospect of it - and its respective practice (toleration) - satisfying Nietzsche"s criteria of life-affirmation and flourishing. The project of revaluation undertaken within this …
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Showing what we see: psychoanalytic vision, transparency, and linguistic pragmatics
This dissertation explores the possibilities that pragmatic linguistic analytic methods might have for psychoanalysis, both in the latter's attempts to establish itself as an empirically grounded endeavor and in its understanding of its own theoretical constructs. I begin with a discussion of some …
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Diskurz sociální sítě se zaměřením na virtuální komunitu Facebook
Social Network Discourse - Facebook, the Virtual Community - Abstract Rigorous thesis "Social Network Discourse - Facebook, the Virtual Community" endeavours to study the social network discourse on its contextual level. When using various perspectives, the concrete analysis of such disourse …