Ways of Knowing. Primary emotions are: * Happiness * Sadness * Fear * Anger * Surprise * Disgust those emotions are not learnt, they are inborn, because even born blind or deaf people show these emotions. So how did emotions help us in getting knowledge during the history? I think, that the best example of this will be war, as it’s always full of emotions, such as fear, pain, hope, sorrow, loss and others. All of them makes people’s minds unclear and spoiled so they can’t perceive
Title: Can we trust statistics? Assignment no: 1 Introduction Statistics is an important technique of information process, and the number is as good as the information put into them. Statistics help us to tell the story of what is going on in our world today through data transformation into information. Envisage the world without statistic; countries were going to struggle to solve some challenging problems. In fact, statistics give us the perspective of the world we live in today than we cannot
Can we trust our memories? People rely on memories to make judgments on everything from voting for political candidates to deciding what to eat at a restaurant. However, memory is not always reliable. Previous research has established that memory is vulnerable and susceptible to confabulations under specific circumstances (1, 3, 9, 11, 12, 13). Misremembering information or an event can influence subsequent decisions, sometimes with drastic consequences. In order to prevent these adverse consequences
Topic #2: When should we trust our senses to give us truth? Word count: 779 words Our senses help us interact with the world. Smell, hearing, sight, taste, touch, and external stimulus play a major role in shaping our perceptions of the surroundings and the world. To trust our senses means that we have justified belief of what we perceive is “true”. To what extent can our senses give us truth? In order to obtain a better understanding of under what conditions we can rely on our senses, we need to
savor life and to live one filled with joy. This is another problem Man has often faced: how to be happy. Most of us think that we are happy when everyone else is proud of us, when we have achieved something for them or done something for the rest of the world. We strive to accomplish what others expect us to do, whether it is our parents, our friends, or even our teachers. The truth is something that has always been shunned: Man finds happiness by accomplishing the goals he sets for himself, realizing
Why do we trust Google Maps to give us the best route? Google Maps provides an interesting example of a complex optimization application that the user understood easily and implemented without requiring optimization expertise. The user simply provides an origin and destination before requesting an optimal route. Google Maps identifies this optimal route based on the fastest travel times, up-to-date traffic and road closure information, and user define constraints (e.g. avoid highways and tolls)
Talking Humanities Can we trust our own religious and humanistic view of the world? Over the centuries, religious views have been continually changing. This is because society has evolved to the point that logic and other insights will refute existing beliefs. While at the same time, they will introduce new ideas that will change the way religious dogma is interpreted. When this happens, there is a fundamental transformation in how everyone looks at deities and their role in the world. A
We cannot succeed when half of us are held back”. Malala Yousafzai. This is the way that feels a young girl in a globalized world today. There is not clear when Globalization starts, but some people believe that it begins with the end of the Cold War and the separation of the Soviet Union, others along with the arrival of man on the moon or with the development of telecommunications. As a matter of fact, Globalization is not always a synonymous of progress; however, the process of people’s interaction
Jan). Whereas most recently Boscheck determined the meaning as “one’s ability to isolate oneself from others and their views. To have no privacy means to be exposed, out of control and possibly open to coercion” (2011, Oct). The use of privacy term can be related to many other terms such as confidentiality, isolation, and secrecy. Due to advance in technology, website are able not only to track users and their records but also to build a sequence of their online activities. (Dhillon, Mooes, 2001,
the Bible that can give us direction and answers to the questions people are asking. There is a meaning to the apparently haphazard catastrophes that have been plaguing our planet. There is a divine plan which is revealed in the book of Revelation, and through these prophecies we can discover where these events are leading us. For centuries, the book of Revelation has been considered to be so mystical and filled with symbols so difficult to decipher, that it is impossible for us to comprehend the