Neither the Ash‘arites nor Kierkegaard’s systems of theology are anti-rational, for Kierkegaard regards the contradiction present in the object of faith as absolute rather than logical, suggesting thereby the existential dialectics for understanding this contradiction instead of resolving it. The Ash‘arites also hold that one can understand the existence of God through absolute reason, or reaso...

Diagrams have been left as an informal tool in hardware reasoning , thus rendering them unacceptable representations within formal reasoning systems. We demonstrate some advantages of formally supporting diagrams in hardware veriication systems via a simple example and provide a portion of a formal logic that includes hardware diagrams upon which we are constructing a veriication tool.

On Value and Obligation in Practical Reason:Toward a Resolution of the Is–Ought Problem Thomistic Moral Tradition William Matthew Diem "This brings us to one most pointless controversies modern moral philosophy, … How can we move from descriptive normative, fact value, Is Ought?"1 Introduction Hume's is–ought2 gap is, tradition, regularly treated as being same problem fact–value gap. The transi...

What Should We Do?” by Katie Atkinson The design and development of autonomous software agents requires a multitude of elements to be considered and accounted for. In order for a software agent to be considered ‘intelligent’ it must be able to perform effective reasoning about its beliefs and the environment in which it is situated, and also act in this environment. It must therefore reason bot...

Learning practical nursing skills is an important part of the baccalaureate in nursing. However, many newly qualified nurses lack practical skill proficiency required to ensure safe patient care. The invasive skill peripheral vein cannulation (PVC) is particularly challenging to learn and perform. This study explored conditions influencing nursing students' learning and performance of the techn...

(1809-49)-American poet, short-story writer, and critic who is best known for his tales of ratiocination, his fantastical horror stories, and his genre-founding detective stories. Poe, whose cloudy personal life is a virtual legend, considered himself primarily a poet. William Wilson (1839)-A tale about a man's struggle with his conscience — an allegory in which William Wilson meets William Wil...

Nous avons psychologisé comme les fous, qui augmentent leur folie en s'efforçant de la comprendre. This paper falls into thee parts. The first section is concerned with Nietzsche's treatment of the self. Here the main point I want to make is that there is a striking lack of fit between the (non-realist or fictionalist) conception of the self that emerges from Nietzsche's theoretical discussion ...

A strong feeling, directly excited by an object, is felt (except when contradicted by the feelings of other people) as its own sufficient justification – no more requiring the support of a reason than the fact that ginger is hot in the mouth; and it almost requires a philosopher to recognize the need of a reason for his feelings, unless he has been under the practical necessity of justifying th...