Philosophy Where concepts come from| A theory of concept acquisition THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL Jesse J. Prinz SaboWilliam DylanHow do people acquire new concepts? Most theorists (including Quine, Chomsky, Fodor, and many others) assume that childhood learning is a kind of ...
What is Piaget's concept of egocentrism? Egocentrism refers tothe child's inability to see a situation from another person's point of view. The egocentric child assumes that other people see, hear, and feel exactly the same as the child does. In the developmental theory of Jean Piaget, thi...
Define the implicit price deflator. Where does this concept come from? How does it relate to nominal and real GDP?Nominal GDP:Nominal GDP can be evaluated with the help of the current prices of the market. GDP is the financial equivalent that include...
Building one’s security on that capability can never lead to peace – no matter the good intentions we state at the same time. Only self-defence – defensiveness – can. To use an image: The Chinese Wall is defensive, it threatens no one – but was a formidable defensive deterrence: If...
Moral beautyis the more abstract beauty that we see when someone shows kindness or something does the most selfless thing without seeking acknowledgment. Cognitive beauty(beautiful ideas) is nuanced skilled things like a very well-written code or an algorithm that just revolutionizes how things are...
Where Do Numbers Come From?A number is an abstract concept (抽象的概念) used for counting andmeasuring. No one knows for sure when people started to use numbers,but it is thought that about 30,000 B.C., our ancestors started writing downmarks as a record of what they were counting. Ma...
I should be helping my community more. But these unfulfilled shoulds only deplete our self-esteem even further, until we’re either happily achieving them, or we realize that they’re not the problem. Self-esteem seems inextricably linked to the specific feelings of identity we get from the ...
Brought to life by the ever-imaginative architect Bill Bensley, The Slate captures the concept through myriad design details, from industrial-chic steel pillars to cool concrete floors, hammered metal, mining lamps and charcoal-hued bathtubs.
How does Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs affect motivation? Do grades promote intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? What factors foster achievement of self-actualization? Describe three theories concerning the sources of motivation. a. What is the relationship between motivation and emotion? b. Provide an ex...
Where does suffering come from in Christianity? The starting point for the Christian understanding of suffering isthe messianic self-understanding of Jesus himself. A temptation to power and self-exaltation lay in the late Jewish promise of the coming of the Messiah–Son of man. ...