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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...evements, in other words, as a result of value judgements within given historical, psychological and cultural contexts. Judgement has to be involve... ...th certainty from any negative statement. This formal-logical trait reflects a deep psychological reality with unsettling consequences. A positive... ...s, insider trading, stock option resetting , unwinding, and unloading, share price manipulation, opaque transactions, and outlandish pay packages. ... ...ctive way to distinguish a machine from a human when we rely exclusively on symbol manipulation. Consider pain once more. To say that something do... ...nd my citizenship (an Israeli). But to penetrate the pertinent layers - historical, psychological, semantic, and semiotic - I had to "enter the skin... ...es of the Jews. Mastery over the Palestinians became an important component in the psychological makeup of the nation (especially the more rightwin... ...ntain life and increase bodily pleasures. But it should definitely hold true on the psychological and spiritual levels. On those levels, we all form... ...l real estate. The role of imperial power entails the suppression, subversion, or manipulation of all forms of free speech, governance, and electi... ...the general population. Yet, correlation does not necessarily imply causation. The manipulation of one parameter of the correlation does not inevit...

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