With that fluffy stuff out the way, let’s look at three of the main research philosophies that operate on different ontological and epistemological assumptions: Positivism Interpretivism Pragmatism These certainly aren’t the only research philosophies, but they are very common and provide a good sta...
Leibniz later coined the term "principle of sufficient reason" and famously used it to argue for the existence of God. He proposed two arguments, the ontological argument, and the cosmological argument. In the latter, we find him using PSR to significant effect. He noted that every truth must...
"[Michael] Reddy points out that theConduit Metaphoris not a specific expression; rather, it names the metaphoric assumptions that enable a range of common expressions such asgetting the message across, putting thoughts into words,andgetting a lot out of a text. . . . "Although the Conduit ...
- 2007 () Citation Context ... research questions in line with epistemological, ontological and axiological assumptions, the ... KJ Kulatunga,R Amaratunga,RP Haigh 被引量: 2发表: 2007年 加载更多来源期刊 Developments in the Built Environment 2020/06/01 0...
The added value of such an ontological formalization is that it enables automatic reasoning for a knowledge base. However, while the decidability requirement ensures favorable computational properties, it drastically restricts the expressive power of OWL, which makes it unpractical to represent complex ...
Particularly, Graham argues, we should think of this contingency of nature in light of Latour's claim that "We have never been modern" (Latour 1993), and his claim that there is no ontological purity of forms, only modern Western attempts at "purification" through boundaries and demarcations...
Cartesians adopted an ontologicaldualismof two finite substances,mind(spirit or soul) andmatter. The essence of mind is self-conscious thinking; the essence of matter is extension in three dimensions. God is a third, infinitesubstance, whose essence is necessary existence. God unites minds with ...