The world we live in is most certainly real, discordant, and unharmonious so we tend to make disillusioned realities in our minds as a means of survival. Plato’s writing suggested that the perception of the prisoner’s reality of the cave was deception of what reality is like and the light that personified the truth; the prisoners were blinded by fallaciousness of their own silhouettes of observations. In the Bible it states that the truth will always reveal itself in the darkness and that’s exactly
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Truth and Knowledge Many philosophers have defined truth in different ways. Truth has been linked with the normal understanding of existence. The reality of truth can be described by the possession of common sense which is defined as the capacity to grasp and possess immediate and self-evident aspects of reality. St. Augustine stated that we can certain that we exist because if we are mistaken then we exist since a non-existent being is incapable of being in error. To understand fully what truth
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big-small, sweet-sour, success-failure etc.” (Judith Allen Shelley, 2006, p. 34). It has the separation between good and evil. Good is represented with order and freedom. Evil is represented with chaos and enslavement. This worldview has the basis of reality divided into two camps. This dualistic worldview had an influence from Christianity and began to have a division between spirit and matter. There was a sharp distinction between natural and supernatural. More people focused on the supernatural realm
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0. What two assumptions constitute the "Enlightenment Vision"? The universe was completely intelligible and that the universe and that we were capable of a systematic understanding of its nature. 1. What six theoretical developments starting in the early 20th century challenged the Enlightenment vision? The relativity theory, which challenged assumptions about space, time, matter, and energy. Second, discovery of the set theoretical paradoxes seemed to challenge the rationality of that very
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philosophical position on the main difference between the physical world and the World of Forms (WoF). He believes that his analogy could clearly explain to others why the physical or world of sense experience was nothing but an illusion; that true reality must be found in the eternal unchanging World of Forms.Plato's analogy begins in a cave. The cave is meant to represent the physical world or the world of sense experience. A number of prisoners are bound by their necks and legs so that they cannot
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Influence is unavoidable; our reality is not of our own making Like a game, reality is dependent on a set of mutual laws and expectations rule-makers agree upon and there are penalties for those who go against the expectations of the majority such as the loss of a “life” or “game over”. Some have a lot invested in the game- wealth, time, effort, goals. Others see it for what it is; a projection of our imagination with a subjective sense of meaning. This game of life is far more complex than
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believe that reality exists independent of the human mind. Matter is characterized by instability; therefore it is not a reliable source of knowledge. Idealism is characterized as education that is highly intellectual in content and the standards of achievement are universal. This means that all students are held to the same standard of excellence. All ideas are deemed as enduring and the only true reality (Dunn, 2005). Idealism challenges the mind to consider the nature of reality and questions
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practice? In what situations do I choose theory over reality to solve a problem? After reading this chapter I have learned that theory is used for everything to make sense of your practice. There are many definitions of theory but what stuck out to me the most was Robbins approach of theory. His approach was that theory is created socially from birth. The thing that we learn from birth to adult hood shapes our reality and everyone’s reality is different so that’s where different cultures come
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Financial Shortage Life is really hard nowadays. No wonder why even the Philippines itself is under pressure when it comes to financial matters. Students are also affected to this kind of scarcity due to many reasons, both valid and invalid. In general, students are compensating tons of bills in availing education. Mere fact, no institutions are offering low prized education and as a matter of fact, education itself is expensive. The availability of money is a factor for students to purchase
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A game is any situation of conflict with at least two players (it may be a person, company). Each side chooses some kind of behavior (strategy) to get the best payoff. Game theory is a way to study conflicts and strategies used to get best results. The decision process is made without full knowledge and that’s what drives people engage into game to strategize to get as good output as possible- perfectly to win everything or at least to lose as little as possible. Game theory as a mix of psychology
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