... meaning thereby just that they feel,
see, think, reason and so forth. According to this view of the
matter, the philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of
minded things just insofar as they ... philosophical analysis of
the concept of seeing: but each will have more credibility to
the extent that it is consistent with the other.
METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
The philosophy of mind is not ... one of these
physical states. That is to say, suppose it is not the case that
there is one of these physical states, say P
i
, such that if either
one ofthe states M and P
i
had not existed, the...
... world of inde-
pendent political communities bound together by the rule oflaw rather
than by the sovereignty of a single emperor. The Chinese can therefore
be said to have been the pioneers ofthe ... verb
meaning to sing’.
53
Over time, the mere presence of heralds was taken
to signify the existence of a war.
54
Another interesting Greek custom was
to send a lamb across the frontier into the territory ... beginning of history tothe present day. Its primary focus is
on legal conceptions of war as such, rather than on the substantive or
technical aspects ofthelawof war. It tells the story, in...
... Brainstorm around a Topic
The teacher asks students to suggest words associated with a topic.
The teacher writes the topic in the middle ofthe board and as students call out words, s/he
writes their ... CHECK
Stop the activity and choose a random pair. Ask them to repeat the activity. Do the same
with two other pairs. If the students know the teacher is going to check after the activity,
they ... methods/approaches to make
full use ofthe advantages offered and to minimize the shortcomings revealed. Also in the
first chapter are the definition and principles ofthe communicative approach. Last in the...
... 24
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements iv
List of abbreviations v
Part 1: Introduction
1. Rationale ofthe study 1
2. Aims ofthe study 2
3. Methods ofthe study 2
4. Scope ofthe study 2
5. ... correction.
I would like to acknowledge my debt to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lê Hùng Tiến and the
staff members of Postgraduate Department, College of Foreign Languages, VNU-Hanoi for
their enthusiastic support.
I ... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to express my deep gratitude to all my teachers at College
of Foreign Languages, Vietnam National University-Hanoi for their valuable lectures. And
their knowledge, their...
... JavaScript file is the equivalent of using the
onclick
attribute in Listing 1.1.5 . They accomplish the same outcome of waiting (listening) for the user
to click the link before executing the function ... and ensure that all the work fits together in the end.
Scaling a small screen interface to grow for the future is a little further out there in terms of
concepts related to progressive enhancement, ... home page,
many ofthe assets get saved so the user doesn’t have to redownload them. This betters the
performance of your site from a user perspective. If all the JavaScript for the entire site...
... review
To provide a theoretical background tothe study, this chapter is devoted tothe
reexamination ofthe concepts most relevant tothe thesis’s topic. Firstly, an account ofthe
CLT theory ... the reality ofthe teaching oral skills tothe first year students
in HaUI when the teachers are considered to be applying CLT approach in their teaching.
The main goal ofthe research is to ... "found it
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factors which impede the effects. Then according tothe theories of CLT, some suggestions
are put forward, which are relevant tothe application of CLT.
2. Aims ofthe study
This...
... share 7 ofthe biggest mistakes that people make when attempting to use
the Lawof Attraction to attract more money into their lives; and offer helpful suggestions on
how to turn them around ...
allow the actions themselves to be fun and enjoyable. Do them because you enjoy doing
them, without expecting them to pay off in any other way. When you do this, you are
―allowing‖ lots of great ... emotions like these, you are creating more lack. In order to turn lack
into abundance, you have to avoid investing in these negative emotions.
Law of Attraction Think Rich Lesson #3
How to Prevent...
...
when they are alone, they have the ability to
take themselves off into an amazing fantasy
world where they are the ruler of all. The
cartoon Calvin & Hobbes comes to mind.
Calvin has the ... illnesses. They expunge in festival terms the
depths of they’re suffering and despair and the more people they have
listening to them the bigger and more fantastical their stories become.
There ... good time to stop. Let go of your
controlling thoughts and let the other person be who they want to be.
The more you push against them the worse the vibration between you
becomes. Stop fighting...
... possible. And the
provision of just such a conception is one ofthe principal
tasks of metaphysics.
3
The point of these remarks is to emphasise there cannot
be progress either in the philosophy of mind ... philosophical analysis of
the concept of seeing: but each will have more credibility to
the extent that it is consistent with the other.
METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
The philosophy of mind is not ... TOTHE REST OF THIS BOOK
I have organised the contents of this book so as to begin,
in chapter 2, with some fundamental metaphysical problems
concerning the ontological status of subjects of...
... eagle.
OBJECTIONS TO A TELEOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF
MENTAL CONTENT
These advantages ofthe teleological theory of representation
over the causal theory may encourage us to try to extend it
to the case of mental ... statistical notion of normality will
not help the causal theory of content to solve the problem
of misrepresentation, then it begins to look as though the
causal theory is doomed to failure. Nor ... instance, the
various different alarm-calls used by vervet monkeys to alert
other monkeys tothe presence of various kinds of predator.
19
One type of call appears to represent the presence of eagles,
another...
... states of consciousness
to other human beings, so that to deny consciousness to the
hypothetical pile of pebbles in the circumstances envisaged
would be to succumb to narrow-minded prejudice, ofthe ... tothe computer’s ‘inputs’, other software states of the
computer, and the computer’s ‘outputs’. By a ‘software’ state
of a computer, I mean, for instance, its storing of a particular
piece of ... introduction tothe philosophy of mind50
suitable pattern of causal relationships, as may the states of
a bundle of human neurones, or the states of a piece of com-
puting machinery, or even the states of...
... and their
position relative to one another – things such as the colour
and shape ofthe tree and ofthe house, the intervening
ground between them, the sky behind them, and other
objects in their ... one to divide one’s attention in a
way which seems to be psychologically impossible. From the
point of view ofthe causal theory, then, it is easy enough to
An introduction tothe philosophy of ... neither of
them assigns any significant role in perception tothe qualit-
ative or phenomenal characteristics of perceptual experience.
Indeed, neither of them really has any use for the notion of
perceptual...
... regarding thelawofthe sea. In comparison with the first UN
codification ofthelawofthe sea, it had to include and develop new topics, such as
the exploration and exploitation ofthe seabed ... UNCLOS III with the ‘status of
Antarctica’. Thus, all lawofthe sea issues, that do not impinge on the unresolved
problem ofthe status of Antarctica (e.g., the regime ofthe high seas, the main prin-
ciples ... paragraph ofthe LOS Convention, where
Conference participants stated that they were prompted ‘by the desire to settle . . .
all issues relating tothelawofthe sea’. Furthermore, they expressed their...
... sphere altogether in favour of an equation of literature
with poetry. But these Romantics, as we now refer to them, none
the less sought to establish the importance of their vision of aes-
thetic ... complex intersection of these two histories – the political
turmoil ofthe 1790s and the broader hegemonic shift towards
the meritocratic bias ofthe professional classes – demands that
reactions ... these apparently dis-
tinct histories became part ofthe same story ofthe fragmentation
of the ideal of literature as a public sphere. The excesses gener-
ated by the French Revolution, on the...