Essays on Ontology

Since the beginning of time people used to have various views and standards for the way that everything around them should be. Throughout the history there existed many examples of the expression of ideas contradictory to the norm and all terrible consequences of such actions. Thomas Kuhn in his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, made an attempt to describe the possible apprehension to change. It was mainly focused on the scientific world and the historic nature of the educational research. Any research was considered to be grounded upon one or more scientific achievements that had to be certainly ...

Organizational communication is inextricably related to the phenomena of social life that entails three aspects, namely axiology, epistemology, and ontology. Epistemology is related to general problems of knowledge and thinking in particular. Ontology refers to the way of thinking about the nature of being, while axiology is connected with values. Ontology studies the nature of existence or, more narrowly, the nature of the phenomena that people seek to know. Understanding the nature of cognition and the processes by which it is carried out is essential for any scientific knowledge. It is worth noting that epistemology and ontology are inseparable, ...

Introduction

The current study entails the determination of the constituents of a high self-esteem in young children. The methodology chapter details the approach of the researcher into answering this question. This section presents information on the paradigmatic choices of the researcher. The chapter will also outline the ontological and epistemological positions on which the study is based. The section will also outline the research design to be used and a description of the participants and their location. The methodology chapter will also highlight the materials that the researcher will use, the procedure through which the study will be performed, the ...

Psychology

There are several ways through which one can understand the terms ‘qualitative’ and ‘quantitative’. Some of these ways are as follows:

The assumptions made

This is the first way through which can understand the meaning and the differences between the two terms. Research that is considered to be quantitative uses objectivity to see the world and the events happening in it. This implies that it is possible for one to identify causes and effects, reasons and explanations. A good example of this is considering a potential tourist. Such a tourist might begin by making a list of the potential destinations. He will ...

Question 1

a) Information Systems for an Airline: Airline industry has been utilizing the merits of computer based information systems to provide a better class of service for its customers, since the 1970s. These industries had invested a lot in transaction processing systems and management information systems since then. Even though decision support information systems is still at its infancy in Airline industry, latest studies have revealed their importance in fixing business related parameters of Airlines (such as Airfares) in improving their business value without making unnecessary compromises in profits . Integration of decision support systems with either of the aforementioned information ...

I. INTRODUCTION Each day, a person reveals his worldview simply in the way he speaks, decides, and acts. Philip Graham Ryken observed that “wherever we bump into the world, our worldview comes spilling out”. The conflict between creationists and evolutionists is such a bumping of worldviews. Can the universe be known? According to John Henry Newman, the universe must be knowable if religious truth is “a condition of general knowledge” instead of a portion thereof. Moreover, if a part of reality is phenomenal (called imminent reality), then that reality it can be known because the human mind contains the ...

Rene Descartes is a French philosopher and mathematician of the XVI century, considered as a father of modern philosophy. He defined an opening point of existence and he is an author of well-known dictum “Cogito ergo sum” that means “I think; therefore I am.” He was influenced by Plato, Aristotle, Anselm and Thomas Aquinas. Descartes’s famous proofs of God’s existence are based on the system of personal experience and the “I” conception but in his speculations, it was not a person that have a conversation with God but the idea of the human “I” as a thinking ...

Abstract

The invention and the continuous research on intelligent machines have greatly impacted on the way man carries out his day to day activities. This research paper examines the topic “Artificial Intelligence” in its broader perspective. It gives the definitions and brief background information on the topic of study and then extends to detailed examination of the topic as given in various literature materials. Artificial Intelligence is considered as a great step in technological innovations and this paper analyses its importance and the areas where it finds applications. A conclusion of this work affirms that, indeed Artificial Intelligence has greatly enhanced ...