Essays on Knowledge Page 3

            People make many choices and decisions in their everyday lives. For instance, people decide on what to eat for breakfast, where to go in the afternoon, what to buy for dinner, who to go out with in the evening, etc. Basically, the story of our lives is based on the choices and decisions that…

Self-knowledge is the discovery of one’s world and oneself in relation to all things. In Phaedo by Plato, Socrates explores the meaning and origin of self-knowledge. While in jail awaiting his execution, he cautions his comrades about the dangers of scrutinizing beings excessively, likening it to staring at the sun during an eclipse. According to…

This paper contains a discussion about the dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative research paradigms in context of social and behavioral science field in general and the field of educational research, in the USA. Discussions are constructed around the relationship between knowledge, researcher, epistemology and methodology based on the papers by Peter Demerath, 2006 and Anthony…

Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets” investigate the relationships between mothers and daughters. Both writers show a struggle, by the children, to understand the true meaning of heritage. Each story has a specific type of mother-daughter relationship. Mother and Daughter Conflict: The Struggle to Understand Heritage in First-generation Americans A…

The paper discusses knowledge innatism, its definition, implications, Locke’s criticism of it, and the different responses to these criticisms. The objections against innatism will be examined and arguments will be presented either supporting their weaknesses or acknowledging their validity. Nativists argue that certain knowledge exists inherently in the mind, regardless of experience. This includes comprehension…

Bank of America acquired US Trust in November 2006 to strengthen their Private Banking portfolio. The goal was to integrate US Trust’s computer systems, responsible for managing client investments and trust account data, into Bank of America’s own database called TrustWeb. Bank of America considered the impact on contracts and employees and decided to merge…

How have spoken sounds acquired meaning? What is the nature of the connection between the sounds and what they are taken to represent? Language in a communication system has undergone a number of evolutionary changes. Language can be further explained by saying that it is a collection of sounds, sounds that have acquired meaning over…

Formative Reflection Knowledge is considered a critical factor in determining nature of decisions made in any undertaking (Battelle 2005, 19).  The information search process (ISP) was an eye opener on the relevance of information in planning and led to appreciation of the challenges that strategists and planners have in choosing information that is relevant to…

Precious Knowledge Movie Review As the documentary begins, it introduced Priscilla, Gilbert, Crystal and Mariah. They are four high school students who attend the Mexican American studies at Tucson High School in Arizona. In spite of how well the program is doing, there has been many disapproval of the program. The main person who really…

The discussion in the Meno revolves around the analogy of two traveling men, one who possesses knowledge of the correct path to Larissa and the other who simply holds a true belief about it (Meno 97a-c). Socrates argues that if both men reach the same outcome, then true belief is just as advantageous as knowledge…