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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"the pre-Socratics"”.
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Sense-making in theory and practice: a metatheoretical foundation and application for health information seeking
This thesis attempts to provide deeper historical and theoretical grounding for sense-making, thereby illustrating its applicability to practical information seeking research. In Chapter One I trace the philosophical origins of Brenda Dervin’s theory known as “sense making,” reaching beyond current …
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A cybernetic model for the unified explanation of human behavior
<p>The mechanistic approach to the explanation of human behavior is as old as western philosophy itself, dating back to the materialistic theories of mind of the pre-Socratics. Despite its antiquity, however, mechanism has never gained undisputed ascendancy as a psychological model. The “mental” …
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The environment and natural rights
The argument advanced is this thesis is that the entities that make up the environment are those that do not owe their origin to any willful creative activity but have evolved through accidental natural processes. This fact of not being willfully created makes the environment ontologically …