It will be shown that Value Analysis (VA) is a way to avoid rejects at the manufacture, increasing the value for the producer and also improve performance, thus increasing the value for the user. ___________ UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS TO BE ELIMINATED It may be frequent for a company, to have manufacturing difficulties and rejects due to impossibilities to accomplish demanded accuracy indicated in the...

representational theory of the philosophy of art. Though Plato builds the foundation of the mimetic theory of art, he does not finish the structure of his theory. His student Aristotle was one of the first to expand on Plato's foundation and refining his initial theory. While Plato largely dismisses artistic mimesis and the imitative arts, Aristotle is more supportive of them. This is because w...

The philosophy of art and empirical aesthetics are, to all outward appearances, natural bedfellows, disciplines bound together by complementary methodologies and the common goal of explaining a shared subject matter. Philosophers are in the business of sorting out the ontological and normative character of different categories of objects, events and behaviors, squaring up our conception of the ...