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... we lived in that society a double life: an official one – propagated by the political system, and another one real. In mass-media it was promulgate... ...nformations in science is an old problem not entirely solved by the existing theories of Dempster- Shaffer, Dubois-Prade, Smets, Yager, Zadeh (fuzzy ... ... second half of the 20 th century, several new and interesting mathematical theories have emerged in parallel with the development of computer scie... ... out that the artistic/literary ground is at least as important as the socio-political source of the movement. 186 DAN T ĂRCHIL Ă (România) P... ...s. Every doctrine can be questioned by reference to paradoxical antithetical theories. For example, monotheistic religionists maintain the existence...
... Romania of 1980’s. Why was the movement based on contradictions? Because we lived in that society a double life: an official one – propagated by the political system, and another one real. In mass-media it was promulgated that “our life is wonderful”, but in reality “our life was miserable”. The paradox flourishing! And then we took the creation in derision, in opposite s...
... this is only suspicion, rumor, nothing more. The source is attributed to his political opponent.” Alfredo shrugged his shoulders. “You know politici... ...here ever since.” “What were your studies, aside from what was required?” “Political Science, Holy Father.” Again things started to take shape. ... ... “Political Science, Holy Father.” Again things started to take shape. “Why Political Science?” “You know the Jesuits, they’re into everything.” ... ...een his Campaign Manager, and whom he considered to be one of the most astute political observers he had ever known. Maybe, that’s why he married her... ...rvices Committee. I guess he was looking for some answers. You know he’s very political,” he said trying to make some sense. “Alex, you’re not tell... ...ieve his theory is correct." "And what is your theory?" "Before we advance theories, let us look at the facts. Some of which have just come to my...
...f the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of the future against the backdrop of political power struggle. ...
...coln’s assassination. Daniel assured her that of all the wild conspiracy theories that popped up in the penny press on a regular basis, he had ne... ... Carew, madam. May I congratulate you on your achievement and trust it was politically motivated and not a personal vendetta.” Backed against the ...
... fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true. Daniel entices her into a marriage of convenience. Can she save him from the treacherous political legacy of his late wife? Set in 1871, the story sweeps from the tragedy of the Chicago Fire to the streets of New York and finally to the wild, dangerous coast of Ireland. Is Daniel merely using Morgan for his own d...
...f Measurement VI. The Quantum of Continuity VII. Quantum Mechanics and Superstring Theories SPE C U L A T I O NS I. Psychophysics ... ...Theodicy: The Problem of Evil IV. Miracles, Wonders, Signs V. Appendix: Scientific Theories The Author PHYSICS Time A... ...chophysics Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy Superstring and Membrane Theories Return Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy... ...d the convergence is precisely where concepts of order and disorder emerge. String theories, for instance, come in numerous versions which describe... ...stitions are less concerned with the physical Universe and more with human affairs. Political falsities - such as anti-Semitism - supplanted magic ... ...erology, or other esoteric "systems". The emergence of "relative", New Age, and politically correct philosophies rendered science merely one opt... ...ew theory is invented. Incorporation is the sworn enemy of parsimony because it is politically motivated. It keeps everyone happy by not giving up ... ...rate with the powers that be: with the industrial base, the military complex, the political elite, the intellectual cliques in vogue. Institutiona... ...elds of finance and economics, and numerous articles dealing with geopolitical and political economic issues published in both print and Web period...
...nt, falsifiable, logically compatible, monovalent, and parsimonious. Psychological "theories" – even the "medical" ones (the role of serotonin and ... ... done in the name of the greater good, largely as a preventive policy. Conspiracy theories notwithstanding, it is impossible to ignore the enormou... ...der (justice), the development of the ability to hypothesize, predict and introduce theories and so on. We are all endowed with a sense of wonder. T... ...isciples (Adler, Horney, the object-relations lot) diverged wildly from his initial theories – they all shared his belief in the need to "scientify"... ...ing a few (minor) modifications to it. (1) Society consists of practices: economic, political and ideological. Althusser defines a practice as: "A... ...her means of production, all organized within defined webs of inter-relations. The political practice does the same with social relations as the ra... ...ise: the economic is determinant not because the practices of the social formation (political and ideological) are the social formation's expressive... ...s. Sometimes, IASs within the same social formation offer competing ideologies: the political Party, the Church, the Family, the Army, the Media, th... ...sentations of power over other human beings. The business concern, the church, the political party, the family, the media, the culture industries -...
...hor A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existen... ... the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer I. Overview of Theories of Anarchism Politics, in all its forms, has failed. Th... ...ully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians ... ...t closer to the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism... ...o the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism (postulat... ...n), and communitarian anarchism (Daniel Guerin). The narrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communiti... ...diment of said subversion. The logical outcome is to call for the overthrow of all political systems, as Michael Bakunin suggested. Governments sho... ...involvement in the economy in his influential and exquisitely-timed "Principles of Political Economy", published in 1848. Undaunted by mounting evi... ...fellow humans (the only ones possessed of moral significance). These are called the theories of indirect moral obligations. Thus, it is wrong to tor...
... released them all. ... To punish a simple outbreak of private passion in which no political element was involved [the prefect] had to mobilize the... ...t that time. This was the modus operandi of all military-organized ideological and political groups. And, taking everything into account, the IMRO ... ...ust in the inevitable triumph of a just claim. The Macedonians were never worse off politically, having contributed no less - if not more - than any... ... new Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia). These political Lego games led to enormous population shifts - the pol... ...public of Macedonia is today ruled by a party called VMRO-DPMNE. It is one of a few political parties to carry this name and the biggest and weighti... ...y beauty or performance, or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering ideals or political theories. 3. The group as a whole, or members of the group - a... ...ge of phenomena associated with the Nazi regime - from industrial murder to racial theories, from slave labour to the forcible annexation of territ... ...ht on European soil. Moreover, Nazi Germany innovated by applying prevailing racial theories (usually reserved to non-whites) to the white race itse... ...tes go to pieces. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Social experiments end in mayhem. It ...
...its that people do not behave in accordance with the predictions of basic economic theories, such as the standard theory of utility and the theory ... ...lain, seeking to perpetuate and increase its power ruthlessly, as per public choice theories. Both views are caricatures of reality. Governments in... ...hould be amenable to scientific treatment. "Prospect theory", "bounded rationality theories", and the study of "hindsight bias" as well as other co... ...id rigid reactions to attacks from within and from without. Many current economic theories do not meet these cumulative criteria and are, thus, me... ...ty. It is never explicit or known in advance. It is always arbitrary, or subject to political and geopolitical considerations. Thus, it serves to in... ... In a May 2001 paper, tellingly titled "Does the World Bank Cause Moral Hazard and Political Business Cycles?" authored by Axel Dreher of Mannheim ... ...s Private Investment Corporation), the British ECGD, and the French COFACE - shift political risk from buyers, project companies, and suppliers to ... ...l clientele (i.e., their willingness and ability to pay) - or in deference to their political and legal clout. Differential prices are not set by s... ...ents have sprung all over the world and their philosophy permeates the ideology of political parties in many countries, not least the USA. Taxes ar...
...on 65 SUMMARY 65 6 THE COMMUNICATION OF IDEASS 67 AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 67 Theories of Communication 68 Idea Marketing: A Special Case 69 I... ...ed the term marketing occasionally does. Propaganda is frequently associated with politically inspired and malevolent inculcation of ideas into the ... ...burb is an island, that everyone's fate is connected and that a distant military or political development has the potential for painfully disrupting ... ...s the presence of needs but not wants. During the time since Dewey wrote, 21 theories by Freud, Lewin, Skinner and others have argued that deci... ...at concepts may be viewed as products in the marketing sense is also rooted in two theories more recent than Dewey's. One is the "bundle of attribut... ...in classifying "approaches to the study of marketing and all the problems, issues, theories, models and research" (p. 22). By contrast, the model pr... ...rl scouting, military recruiting and the value of education. The furtherance of a political campaign (party or candidate) is an idea to be adopted ... ... are the best terms available. By contrast. exchanges of social products occur in political, organizational, educational, leisure, health care, fami... ...eptibly changed of thcmselves within him. Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views, these political opinions an views...
... able to read the works of the great, and not so great, intellectuals of our race. It now gives me cause to consider some of the psychological theori... ...izing that, let‘s see what I can do to help you. I‘ll have to warn you that I try to go back to the basics as much as I can. There are so many theori... ...re, like sex, our basic drive or are we driven to find higher meanings in life? Serious students of human nature have expressed each of these theori... ...ife? Serious students of human nature have expressed each of these theories. ―Perhaps by understanding some of the various psychological theori... ...or being the toughest inmate, the power gained from being in the best school or on the best team—the examples are endless. Then there are the politi... ... in our children and young adults the abilities to have power to do some things well. This can be in the vocational, avocational, familial or politi... ...is often valued by the newsmen. But is press freedom more valuable to a Muslim whose prophet has been defiled? It is religious values versus politi... ...r over men. Granting sexual favors is even a better means of gaining power over them. Men tend to get their sexual attraction from economic or politi... ...cles for the drive for power. It had forced them to achieve in business, to become the money winners, and to work at the highest academic and politi...
...tion really the robbery in disguise of state assets by a select few, cronies of the political regime? Margaret Thatcher was accused of it - and so w... ...f the business (to show its track performance and growth). • Points regarding the political, legal (licences) and competitive environment. • A v... ...s has implications which are nothing short of revolutionary. Most of the financial theories we use to determine the value of shares were developed ... ...y was this oxymoron - the "earnings yield" - perpetuated? According to all current theories of finance, in the absence of dividends - shares are wo... ...on and re-investment - for present ones. The myth was born. Thus, financial market theories starkly contrast with market realities. No one buys sh... ...s little to do with its discounted future stream of dividends, as current financial theories teach us. But, if so, why the volatility in share price... ...times threaten the national economy and the very fabric of society and incur grave political and social costs. There are two types of bubbles. Ass... ...y the collapse of a series of nation- wide leveraged investment plans in 1997. Inept political and financial crisis management led Albania to the ver... ...y of other, less pious, pyramid schemes. They melted down and dragged economies and political establishments with them. By definition, pyramid sch...
... lived in that society a double life: an official one - propagated by the political system, and another one real. In mass-media it was promulgated t... ...logic thus generalizes: - intuitionistic logic, which supports incomplete theories (for 0<n<100, 0<=t,i,f<=100); - fuzzy logic (for n=100 and i=0, a... ...t generalizes: 7 - the intuitionistic set, which supports incomplete set theories (for 0<n<100, 0<=t,i,f<=100); - the fuzzy set (for n=100 and i=0... ...fied as neutrality. K) Delimitation from Other Philosophical Concepts and Theories: 1. Neutrosophy is based not only on analysis of oppositional pro... ... have a catastrophe! P) Neutrosophic Studies and Interpretations of Known Theories, Modes, Views, Processes of Reason, Acts, Concepts in Philosophy.... ... today it will be raining or not. Because any attempt to change the political power ends up in embarking another power, "the revolution is imp... ...account they transform the church into a business and the religion into a political propaganda. "The contradictiousness is a component of indiv... ...s-media partially does this. Social disease, created by mass media's political manipulation: Give citizens the impression/disillusion they are ... ...ine a country or group of people or class to remain neuter in a military, political, ideological, cultural, artistic, scientific, economical, etc. in...
...d with ideal love, the construction of brilliant, revolutionary scientific theories, the composition or authoring or painting of the greatest work ... ...f narcissism"? Human collectives – states, firms, households, institutions, political parties, cliques, bands – acquire a life and a character all t... ... pieces. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Social experiments end in mayhem. As their end... ...: a massive post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). APPENDIX: Strong Men and Political Theatres - The "Being There" Syndrome "I came here to see a co... ...on, intimidation, and collusion with Western interests, both commercial and political. The new "democracies" are thinly-disguised and criminalized p... ..., nepotism, and cronyism; self-censoring media; socially, economically, and politically excluded minorities; and so on. But while this malaise does ... ...ese worldly and intangible goods (popularity of the leadership which yields political stability; prosperity; security; prestige abroad; authority a... ... pieces. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Social experiments end in mayhem. It is import... ...enomena associated with the Nazi regime - from industrial murder to racial theories, from slave labour to the forcible annexation of territory. Ger...
...pope. Similarly, the values of the people and those of their religious or political leaders often vary.‖ ---―Wanda, one of my parishioners tol... ...tables or how to add when you have a calculator? Why consider alternative theories of the origin of the universe when we have the Bible? Why consid... ...are the rule rather than the exception. Prostitution, gambling, drugs and political payoffs are only a small part of their overall business, much of... ...How well are the common people represented when they have not watered the political flower pots? ―There is something to be said for self inter... ...is something to be said for self interest. Ayn Rand‘s popular conservative theories stress that self interest makes for honest and fair trading. Dish... ...ose your driving license if you speed, will you speed? If you know that a political candidate will lower your taxes but that your children will be sa... ... but that 50% thinks it is absolutely right, and it makes a great deal of political noise, so you think there are more of them than there actually ar... ... influenced by the refusal of conservative religious people to accept the theories of science, such as evolution. They may also be influenced by the ... ...phers of the Enlightenment. Today with the certainty of evolution and the theories of the astrophysicists, I think that yesterday‘s deists would mor...
... leaves out our hereditary makeup and our neurophysiology is lacking. Such lacking theories are nothing but literary narratives. Psychoanalysis, fo... ...d so on). Slowly – to justify his acts to himself – he gets immersed in conspiracy theories with clear paranoid hues. To his mind, the members of t... ...m known as splitting. The narcissist does not regard people, situations, entities (political parties, countries, races, his workplace) as a compoun... ...ration from their parents and through consequent individuation. Most psychodynamic theories [especially Klein, Mahler] are virtually constructed up... .... In effect, he says that the picture of the child, as proffered by psychodynamic theories, is biased by the way adults see children and childhood... ... the non-separateness of the child, go the classical psychodynamic/object-relations theories. The self is a construct (in a social context, some ad... ...fiers - people who treat others as objects. To some extent, leaders of all sorts - political, military, or corporate - do the same. In a range of d... ...ds of finances and the economy, and numerous articles dealing with geopolitical and political economic issues published in both print and Web period...
...l requirement for a separation of church and state, then look as how many political candidates have to continually call on God to bless everybody. A... ...necessary program. It took some time before she was able to overcome that political faux pas. We politicians learned our lessons—do what is necessary... ...eople want. Pushing for what they need, like a reduced population, can be political suicide. So instead of curing the root cause of our poverty by r... ...he art of being honest‘ but without an educated electorate we have to use political techniques such as propaganda to nudge our voters. All modern de... ... do this. No modern democracy has voters who are all educated in history, political science, economics, the environmental sciences and all the other... ...ower than other educated groups to accept clearly verifiable findings and theories of science. And I know you in the priesthood are a very well educ... ...hould opinions or hopes replace accepted scientific definitions or proven theories? Where should the mere opinions of the powerful be allowed to rep...
...formed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am describing here is—as the last chapt... ...lder’s rights? These questions may be hard, because the underlying moral and political and economic issues need to be thought through. They may be wei... ...ic. Condorcet began by framing the question of lit- erary property as one of political liberty. “Does a man have the right to forbid another man to wr... ... of his ideas. The law of 1793 accomplished this task of synthe- sis through political negotiation rather than philosophical reasoning—that is, by ref... ...negotiation rather than philosophical reasoning—that is, by refashioning the political identity of the author in the first few years of the Revolu- tio... ...se ideas about fair use has much to recommend it, as do the many other grand theories that have been offered to explain the puzzle. And therein lies t... ...y-established hits. But if that is our conclusion, it merely proves that our theories of aesthetics are poorer than the creativity they seek to descri... ... poorer than the creativity they seek to describe. So much the worse for the theories. As Jefferson pointed out, the lines surrounding intellectual pr... ...ted on this point many times, rejecting both labor-based “sweat of the brow” theories of copyright and more expansive visions based on a natural right...
......................................................................... 44 POLITICAL SYSTEM ............................................................. ... foreign financing. I think that some countries are so busy chasing their political tails that they can‟t move forward. Your lawyers, journalists an... ... the long term trends and possible outcomes, you focused on the immediate political interests. Look what it has done to your economy and your intern... ...wing the joys of parenting. Clearly they wanted to use the most effective political techniques to change the minds of the reticent reproducers. ... ...people. Socially we have concerned people who 29 have been loved, and politically we have intelligent citizens. So it‟s a win-win-win situation. ... ...ked at the research. What we found was that there are four major types of theories concerning viewing violence. One is that it arouses people to dupl...
...n office of “Curentul” in Munich a letter sent from the Istanbul camp for political refugees. A small writing, nervous and legible, expanding on fou... ...wards surrealism the Prevertian heredity (Claude Le Roy) and towards “the political significance the holding of silence” (Jean-Michel Levenard). ... ...epressed the hesitation 20 and decided, in compensation, on a resolute political exploration, in which complete actions are taken. Let us come b... ...ious enemy of totalitarianism, which oppresses postmodernism, it was, in a political translation, the necrology of communism. Postmodernism promotes,... ...space, in which are included specific discourses: pragmatic, literary and political discourse, psycho- and biosemiotic matters, design, artificial i... ...aradoxist playing-fields, which in fact come in consonance with the newest theories on the finalist-symbolic fictional universes, specifically litera... ... the restudying of the whole philosophy, the reevaluation of all systems, theories, theories, ideas, contributions of the personalities. The future c...