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65Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control by Walter A. Shewhart
This is the book who has the most influenced my life (the book I keep near my bed to re-read it from time to time ! ): yes I know it seems bizarre that I could make such a strong assertion about a book that...
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77Nietzsche Essay - Genealogy of Morals Book 3 and Ascetic Advocacy
The essay that follows is a brief look at the three approaches to asceticism Nietzsche defined in book three of The Genealogy of Morals. This is obviously just one academic interpretation of the work....
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69Epistemology: The Theory of Knowledge
Epistemology is the philosophical examination of human knowledge. One of the central problems that faces an epistemologist, a philosopher engaged in the examination of knowledge, is how to refute the...
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57Epistemology: Attitudes of the Mind Towards Knowledge
It is necessary to examine and define the ideas underlying the problem of knowledge. Knowledge, being a primary fact of experience, like 'seeing,' 'hearing,' etc., is incapable of an exact definition....
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61The 5-Year-Old Platonist
As a very young kid, I somehow got the idea in my head that the world could be made out of mirrors. I had spent a lot of time looking into mirrors. Although I’m sure the concept of a mirror as a flat...
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52Book Review: Dismantling the Universe
Dismantling the Universe, by Richard Morris was originally published in 1983. Yet despite the 2 decades that have passed since its release, the book still holds its own for what it originally promised. ...
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49Where Shall Wisdom be Found
"Where shall wisdom be found?" Harold Bloom queried in his book of that same title. He suggests that we shall find "wisdom" within the Literature of the Ancients. That would be, of course, for those so...
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48Epistemology: about the theories of Knowledge or How do we know what we know ?
Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature and scope of knowledge and belief: analyzing the nature of knowledge and how it relates to similar notions such as truth,...
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63Capitalism
Where did the word “capitalism” come from ?Karl Marx coined the word “capitalism” in the mid 1800s, though in his “Communist Manifesto” he never really defines it. He seems...
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