Terror management theory posits that people tend to respond defensively to reminders of death, including worldview defense, self-esteem striving, and suppression of death thoughts. Seven experiments examined whether trait mindfulness-a disposition characterized by receptive attention to present experience-reduced defensive responses to mortality salience (MS). Under MS, less mindful individuals...

Terror management theory posits that people are motivated to affirm cultural meaning systems, including political ideologies, to avoid the awareness of mortality. Accordingly, studies show that increasing mortality salience (MS) intensifies people’s attitudes toward political issues and figures. However, whereas in some studies MS increases affirmation of preexisting political ideologies, be th...

The goal of General Spatial Intelligence is to present a unified theory to support the various aspects of spatial experience, whether physical or cognitive. We acknowledge the fact that GIScience has to assume a particular worldview, resulting from specific positions regarding metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, mind, language, cognition and representation. Implicit positions regarding these d...

Leviticus 11 presents dietary laws, specifying which animals are "clean" ( edible) and "unclean" (inedible). Nine major theories to account for these dietary laws are described in this paper, giving arguments pro and con regarding each. The theories discussed are the Obedience Testing, Arbitrary Divine Command, Assertion of Divine Authority, Moral Discipline, Hygiene, Spiritual Symbolism, Pagan...

"Divine William" and The Master: The Influence of Shakespeare on the Novels of Henry James

Western culture's imaginary positions human figure as exceptional and identified with cosmological wholeness: "humanity" is taken for granted in the construction of people's identity, while non-human beings are assigned a condition non-subjects. This paper departs from assumption that this worldview supported by fundamentally mythical structure, which has, an important representant, world creat...

In this article, the author investigates concept of “war” during Akkadian period (ca. 2234–2154 BCE) through fragments and clay tablets that have remained from in history more than 4,000 years ago. Given special place divine realm took worldview, manifesting even everyday interaction, reworks well-renowned trinity Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz. The argues Clausewitz’s analysis ...

Philosophy lacks criteria to evaluate its philosophical theories. To fill this gap, we introduce nine criteria to compare worldviews, classified in three broad categories: objective criteria (objective consistency, scientificity, scope) subjective criteria (subjective consistency, personal utility, emotionality) and intersubjective criteria (intersubjective consistency, collective utility, narr...

We present a new release of the parallel and distributed LTL model checker DiVinE. The major improvements in this new release is an extension of the class of systems that may be verified with the model checker, while preserving the unique DiVinE feature, namely parallel and distributed-memory processing. Version 3.0 comes with support for direct model checking of (closed) multithreaded C/C++ pr...

Recent studies of the emotional brain have opened new doors to the understanding of human behavior, character development, relationships, happiness and well being. Recent research has shown that the development of “emotional brain” is dependent on “relationship,” initially parent and child relations. Aside from an individual’s relation with the parents, the human mind has been engaged historica...