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The elderly of society have traditionally composed the population of sages. However, in an excerpt from Walden, Henry David Thoreau contradicted this customary opinion. He believed that the elderly possessed no beneficial knowledge to pass on to the next generation, since they have encountered numerous...
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The process of obtaining information can be done in many ways, taken from different areas of knowledge and is continuously evolving. Through the notion that knowledge production is constant, it is important to recognise that past information has had a huge influence on the development...
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You can never have too much knowledge. People often like to argue this against the cliché claim that “too much of any good thing is bad for you”. However, with knowledge, comes the importance of a relatively equal amount of wisdom. Mary Shelley demonstrates this...
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Aristotle defines “speech” as a kind of articulated “voice”, and the basic difference between “voice” and “speech” is the process of articulation which is performed by the tongue. Aristotle thinks that only human beings have the ability to use “language”to indicate the advantageous and the...
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The Piano Handbook by Carl Humphries is a great book for amateur piano-lovers. It consists of an introduction and 18 units that are arranged from easy to hard. However, can someone learn how to play the piano by reading The Piano Handbook, a systematically organized...
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“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.” – Plato These three things from the quote really differentiate humans from other animals. Desire is what we live for and have an aim in life to achieve it and emotion is a way...
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The whole range of the educational system would be in part physical, in part intellectual, and in part moral. If a man cannot withstand moral temptation, then he might sacrifice the interest of the society in order to satisfy his own interests. The process of...
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For sure, there is no affection like first love. It generally remains as a cherished memory to you and you look at all the individuals who get into an association with, with your first love. You may proceed onward, get hitched or even cover our...
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The connection between shared and personal knowledge of communities within a religion, science, or more broadly a belief system have systematically ruled over all aspects of life. From the minuscule decisions of picking an outfit in the morning to pulling the plug on a relative,...
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The doctrine, originally coined by Samuel T. Coleridge in his 1817 publication of Biographia listeria, ‘suspension of disbelief’ is built, principally, on the idea that, in order to fully immerse in the fictional world, it is paramount that we force ourselves to believe in premises...
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When we speak about the “production of knowledge” it refers to a complex and time- consuming process of something, that means as a “acquiring or gaining” knowledge which is a reliable information, an entity or thing that relates to our experience, conceptual, representational thinking which...
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It is very important for me to continue to improve my knowledge and development as a leader and manager of a team it is my role and responsibility to lead the team, the organization I represent and the people I support, this way and can...
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The term tort has originated from latin word ‘tortum’ which denotes ‘to twist.’ It consists of that behaviour which is not right or not legalized but is twisted, illegal or bent. It includes all those unjust acts where a wrongdoer infringes the legal right conferred...
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The amount of people that understand the importance of knowledge in today’s world and Socrates world are very different. The Apology is a book written by the philosopher, Plato, that describes why knowledge is important. In Allegory of the Cave, Plato speaks about a philosophical...
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A learned man came to me once A learned man came to me once. He said, “I know the way, come.” And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the...
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Knowledge is true opinion’. This saying by Plato really hit my senses, as I had always received knowledge from a higher authority, from teachers in school to elderly in my religious society. However, through collective opinion, we get a varied response from many people, possibly...
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“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” I have always been fascinated and motivated by this statement of Benjamin Franklin. Understanding the importance of a foreign degree, after the completion of Bachelors in Business Administration I decided to continue my further study in...
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During their everyday lives, people are dealing with many options. We have had to take decisions ever since we open our eyes. For example, once we get we either prepare for a new day or continue to sleep. We will always experience decisions after decisions...
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In the natural sciences, disinterestedness is not crucial in the pursuit of knowledge, and may even be hindering. When looking at the natural science of biology being interested in what you are learning is extremely important. This is because when learning biology it entails learning...
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“Modernity has long been obsessed with, perhaps even defined by, its epistemic insecurity, it’s grasping toward big truths that ultimately disappoint as our world grows only less knowable. New knowledge and new ways of understanding simultaneously produce new forms of no knowledge, new uncertainties, and...
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The quote, “We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge” by John Naisbitt seems to refer to the quality of knowledge issue, as some knowledge claims tend to lack quality. What the quote claims to mean is how one can separate quality of the...
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University should be a platform for young adults to explore new things and gain as much experiences and knowledge to prepare them for future undertaking. Keys (2018) suggests that education should be a part of adult life in order to boost up their personal and...
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Hand sanitizers are consumed as a sterilizing substance in the form of liquid, gel, or foam that fights against infectious bacterias on the hand. They comprise 60% of rubbing alcohol that kills the germs present on the surface of the skin. They are a good...
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Tacit knowledge: this is the understanding made up as a be counted variable of the outing and individual context. It’s no longer composed down and is difficult to explain. Tacit records (knowing-how): it is the understanding inserted in the human persona via journey and employment....
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“The quality of knowledge produced by an academic discipline is directly proportional to the duration of historical development of that discipline.” Explore this claim with reference to two disciplines. ‘Knowledge’ implies the awareness of an individual to a theoretical or intellectual interpretation of a phenomenon....
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Many people see Religious Knowledge System and Ethics convincing because of the fact that these two have established rules and evidence to support what they put on or what they judge as true. In this word many people have the faith in religion and those...
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Abstract The aim of this paper is analysing the effect of knowledge and creativity on the overall result of a design process, in order to investigate how to apply these two principles to produce the best outcome. After defining these two concepts, different kinds of...
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Introduction With the outbreak of COVID-19, the demand for wholesale hand sanitizers are now greater than ever. A bottle of hand sanitizer is now a common sight everywhere from grocery shops to medical institutions. With alcohol as it’s the star ingredient, hand sanitizers are an...
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Like many industries, the academic library has seen comprehensive changes over the past five years due to the emergence of new technologies. This has forced many institutions to re-think how they manage the administrative tasks of collection, curation and acquisitions while dramatically changing the role...
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Knowledge is a concept of realizing and understanding the patterns and implications of existing data and information (Filemon & Uriarte, 2008). In general, there are two types of knowledge: tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge. Tacit knowledge is a knowledge that resides in the human brain...