... as our working questions. However, another dominant method in our project is the qualitative method. It has been used primarily to find relevant quotes and other case studies on particular topics to backup our claims that we state throughout the project. Therefore most of the empirical data consists ... or thing that eats or uses something." ("Definition of Consumer in English"). Throughout our project, we are referring to a consumer as the first explanation found in the Oxford dictionary. We agree on the second statement from the dictionary as well, except that we only see consumers as...

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... away from home in hope of avoiding incest. Humans on the other hand utilize such devices as taboos and sentiments to decrease the likelihood of sleeping with a relative. The distal explanation is the same, both species desire to maximize their fitness and understand that incest does not facilitate this motive. The proximal mechanisms each species employs is quite different, insects scatter ... of courage and selflessness in their attempt to save another human life. The problem is even though these feelings might have been constructed by societies as proximal mechanisms, the distal expla...

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... ); "than a transition was made to purely astronomical theory." (Brown, p.138) The previous theory which combined both claims said more about the world than the latter astronomical explanation. Yet the astronomical explanation proved to be more accurate.  Like many debates in philosophy realism and anti realism has an immense grey area. It occurs because there is no clear line between what ... is acceptable as truth and what is not. Scientists of course ignore this debate and let philosophers fight this battle. Brown appears to have a proper, narrative style explanation for the dispute. ...

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... simple things that physicists either understand, or are working on."[iii] He holds the view that science is the only acceptable form of explanation; if science does not discover purpose, there is no purpose in the universe. Dawkins then makes the leap to an ontological reductionism or ... , while the theologian can say that God sustains and makes use of the whole natural sequence. Primary causality represents a different order of explanation in answer to questions very different from those which the scientist asks about relationships within the natural world. The Jesuit scientist, William...

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... of distinctiveness propose that if your attention is drawn to something it is distinct from other things you encounter which may not be as distinctive. This explanation has been backed by many studies. The true memory explanation has also been backed by a lot of studies as well and shows that the actual act of recalling the memory from other memories around it ... makes things distinct. The studies behind this explanation show that when a distinct event is encountered the features of the event that make it distinctive are stored as well as the other item-specific information. The distin...

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... take Aristotle's critique of Plato's theory of the forms. Aristotle critiques Plato's forms as only abstract copies of actual things or beings. As such the forms do not provide any explanation of the existence of such thing or how they change consequently for that reason and several others, I believe Aristotle to have the more persuasive argument on the "forms". In the ... Plato's theory on the transmigration of the soul, because if the soul migrates from one body to another at one person's death or birth, then we would still have no explanation for the soul's knowledge of the forms. Fo...

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... take Aristotle's critique of Plato's theory of the forms. Aristotle critiques Plato's forms as only abstract copies of actual things or beings. As such the forms do not provide any explanation of the existence of such thing or how they change consequently for that reason and several others, I believe Aristotle to have the more persuasive argument on the "forms". In the ... Plato's theory on the transmigration of the soul, because if the soul migrates from one body to another at one person's death or birth, then we would still have no explanation for the soul's knowledge of the forms. Fo...

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... simple, the very question about why existence itself exists is impossible and/or futile. As a result, existence, or - in other words - reality, does not need explanation as it is prior to as well as independent of anything. As it does not require any explanation, questions about when it began and who its creator was are ineffectual, let alone otiose. Consequently, when no ... explanation of existence is necessary, no question concerning existence itself can arise. "Existence is simple, irreducible, and foundational"(Full Context: Metaphysics: par 1). Existence provides the context for ....

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... members of a particular culture. Furthermore, Gellner fails to contemplate the role of culture in the creation of identity, which, in Guibernau's view, is the main explanation for the "loyalty" of individuals to their nation. The second explanation for nationalism in the modern world is laid out by Anderson, in "Imagined Communities." He believed that nations were social constructions or cultural artefacts which ... centuries, the rise of nationalism did not emerge until the late eighteenth to nineteenth centuries. To give so much significance to print capitalism, one would imagine ther...

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... bank of microscopic possibilities transform itself to the blurred picture we have of a definite macroscopic state. That is the measurement problem and SchrÖdinger's cat is a simple and elegant explanation of that problem. . Interpretations of quantum mechanics We consider the theory of quantum mechanics to be divisible into formalism and an interpretation. We will assume for each of the interpretations ... they travel. Two universes which are identical except for the photon arriving at a certain point on the film with opposite phases, cancel each other out. Neither one is real. The exp...

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... relatives the primates, which consist of monkeys, chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas. Primatology is the study of these primates and their relationship to the human race. Evolution is the most logical explanation for mans place on earth. Though all religions have their own theory of creation this one proves to be most reasonable. Through careful examination of fossil remains found in the ... relatives the primates, which consist of monkeys, chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas. Primatology is the study of these primates and their relationship to the human race. Evolution is! the most ...

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... resulting in the removal of the disruptive foreign body. ( p. 116) Freud was in agreement with this splitting of consciousness, however; he did not agree with Breur's hypnoid theory as an explanation for the psychic split. Freud believed that the psychic split was caused by two issues: Freud's insistence on the sexual nature of trauma and his theory of defense. This leads ... patience's psychological history and the key to revealing his/her personality structure. And to an even greater degree, Freud's emphasis in his meta-physiological writings was a necessity for providing a historical...

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... be described as the complex processes by which living organisms originated on earth and have been diversified and modified through sustained changes in form and functionEvolution?. Scientists, looking for an explanation to the origin of man and other organisms created this evolutionism theory, which also presented answers to the many asked questions dealing with similarities between species. Unlike the theory of ... earth, the theory of evolution has a plethora of evidence proving it to be trueCreation?. There are several different types of observations that support the theory of organi...

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... itself to explain the evolution of reciprocal altruism (Wright 1994). Even in a non-zero-sum game cooperation does not always make sense. In the example in the beginning of the explanation about the monkeys sharing food, even though you gain one point form a round of reciprocal altruism you gain six points by cheating, which is accepting someone being generous and not ... society rests not just on reciprocity, but on a common foundation of feelings like sympathy, gratitude, affection, obligation, guilt, dislike, and so on (Eibel-Eibesfeldt 1989). Even fewer have offered a different expl...

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... too masculine or it becomes too feminine; it loses its perfect integrity and, with that, its most essential quality as a work of art." (P5) In Orlando, she further gives her explanation of androgyny: "In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female; and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain, the ... when the two live in harmony together, spiritually cooperating, If one is a man, still the woman also must have intercourse with the man in her. (P102) This is the clear explanation of androgyny given by Woolf, and in Woman and fiction Woolf...

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... equal access to societal means and goals. According to Durkheim, anomie is a feeling of isolation and normlessness related to deviant behavior, or suicide. Merton expanded Durkheim's theory by developing a similar explanation for deviant behavior. Merton's arguments for anomie were largely neglected until the 1980's. Most of the attention was instead focused on his version of strain theory. Merton's anomie theory, eventually ... ...

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... approach too structural. He recognized the study of evolution and also the struggle for survival. He however rejected its generalization of external characteristics because the study was insufficient as an explanation. Bernard asserted that Darwin's work on the appearance of species did not prove a point.12 A few other French scientists had theories similar to Darwin's, such as Carl Vogt, who was ... ...

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... indeed successful in curtailing the influx of Haitians into the U.S. (Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti, 1994). The theory of normative liberalism can be seen as an explanation for the U.S. policy in dealing with the Haitian refugees. The theory assumes that democratic societies have certain democratic norms translate into international non-violence. However, any state that violates these ... ...

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... , and something very similar to our common-sense understanding of them: Shy, quiet people "versus- out-going, even loud people. This dimension, too, is found in everyone, but the physiological explanation is a bit more complex. (http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/eysenck.html) Comparison of Theories All the different theories developed by different authors have different considerations about the personality. They all ... ...

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... , and enforce these policies and the system functions which create individual ideology and recruits leaders are the most similar to the frameworks of analysis. Structural functionalism does not offer an explanation as to how these functions are supposed to be fulfilled, just that they are to exist in order for development to take place. For example, rational choice theory may be ... ...

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... pressure on the value of money. If such changes in the value of money come into contradiction with vestigial links between a money commodity and the monetary system, this type of explanation must be modified to take account of the specific action of those links. In the late twentieth century the system has usually adapted by weakening even further the links between ... ...

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... the general resurrection does not occur until the eschaton with Jesus' statement to the good thief on the cross, " Today you wil l be with me in paradise " (L&. 23, 43). The explanation (which naturally goes far beyond Jesus' simple statement) is as follows: The thief would be with Jesus in paradise that very day in the form of a disembodied soul, only to ... ...

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... not distinguish between acquired characteristics, which are not transmissible by heredity, and genetic variations, which are inheritable. Modern knowledge of heredity "especially the concept of mutation, which provides an explanation of how variations may arise "has supplemented and modified the theory, but in its basic outline Darwinism is now universally accepted by scientists. Evolution concept that embodies the belief ... ...

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... assume that factors exist within the individual that energize, direct, and sustain behaviour (Steers, et al., 1996: 9). These approaches to motivation are concerned with identifying important internal elements and the explanation of how these elements may be prioritized within the individual. On the other hand, process theories try to analyze the process or manner in which people become motivated, focusing on ... ...

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... still offers some advantages which other theories lack. It is the only psychological theory of crime which investigates the role of emotional issues in criminal behaviour. It also offers an explanation for crimes which appear to bring with them no reward, such as compulsive shoplifting by people who are financially stable. The idea that unconscious processes are a significant factor in behaviour ... ...

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