abstract nature of philosophy is one of the most important and controversial discussions in history of philosophy. early wittgenstein as not only very great philosopher in the history but also the greatest philosopher in contemporary philosophy critic the traditional metaphysics and determinate the boundary of language. he assign language as a picture of the world then determinate extent of sen...

Dialogue is not new to computational linguistics but, up to now, it has been applied only to very restricted domains. The computer is often either too task oriented and logic or quite mindless: no solution has been found to this problem yet. By applying human computer dialogue to persuasive dialogue, this thesis hopes to take the research in domains that have barely been studied in conjunction ...

one of the major aspects of quality of life is place-attachment which is affected by human-nature interactions. looking at such a critical issue in human settlements requires the study of the relationship between architecture and nature. it is a critical issue in the contemporary literature of built environment and is discussed in specific frameworks such as phenomenology and environmental psyc...

this paper will discuss some new implications of whitehead’s philosophy for environmental thought.[i] they fall under three headings: 1. the interrelations between three ways of thinking about the environment: bioregionalism, land ethics, and the philosophy of organism.  2.  the implications of whitehead’s philosophy of organism for environmental aesthetics.  3.  the implications of whitehead’s...

This article concerns the use of rhetorical strategies in the natural historical and anatomical works of the seventeenth-century Royal Society. Choosing representative works, it argues that naturalists such as Nehemiah Grew, John Ray and the neuroanatomist Thomas Willis used the rhetorical device known as ‘comparison’ to make their descriptions of natural things vivid. By turning to contemporar...

This study explores woman’s agency in Alameddine’s fiction, An Unnecessary Woman (2013) concerning the normative state of a communal structure that controls women’s behaviors and wishes set by suppression. The current uses deconstruction theory French post-structuralists Jacques Derrida Hélène Cixous, taken from feminist perspective, which undermines gender dichotomies interrupts “the unquestio...