While logical positivism has been said to have had major influence on the development of nursing theory, whether this influence pervades other aspects of the discipline has not been discussed. One central aspect of logical positivism, the verificationist perspective, was used to examine texts, curricular guides and standards of practice that guided nursing practice in the decades in which logic...

SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS 1970 Do we want to be in a Manichean, puritan, computerized world which prostitutes and rejects pleasure, desire, emotion and the mysterious meaning of our living flesh? Or will we recognize that man’s creativity lies not only in his objectivity and logic, but also in he poetic intuition that he touches through the difficult body he has to assume when he lives seriously wi...

Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, you will be able to: Identify the major aspects of the economics of information technology. Explain and discuss the productivity paradox. Describe approaches for evaluating IT investment and explain why it is difficult to do it. Understand the nature of intangible benefits and the approaches to deal with such benefits. List and briefly describe t...

We consider the totally nonfree (TNF) action of a groups and the corresponding adjoint invariant (AD) measures on the lattices of the subgroups of the given group. The main result is the description of all adjoint-invariant and TNF-measures on the lattice of subgroups of the infinite symmetric group SN. The problem is closely related to the theory of characters and factor representations of gro...

A continuous if rather winding thread in Aristotle’s fairly complex argument in Metaphysics Γ against the assertion of any contradiction is that he who asserts a contradiction is thereby committed to a rejection of degrees. On the other hand, though, Aristotle claims that there can be no intermediary situation inbetween pure or entire truth or existence and utter, complete falseness or nonexist...

the belief in allah and having the inclination towards him is of the innate human disposition; and human beings have throughout the history sought to know their god and many have undeservingly applied the quest to false gods whom they have worshiped. in order to know allah, some people liken him to human beings or other creatures and even they attribute a body to him; yet others establish absol...