According to Claude Bernard,each of the sciences investigates different natural phenomena using experimental methods unique to that science,especially experimental medicine.However,Bernard also argued that these scien...
supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.003024).
This article defines and defends"the practical historical approach",a long-established approach to history which prizes the critical treatment of sources and,above all else,the presentation and assessment of accurate ...
Looking back at the history of landscape design, there are various styles and schools as well as numerous design concepts. From the perspective of philosophical epistemology, landscape design has experienced three per...
A diversity of methodologies can be utilized for knowledge building in social sciences, particularly in education. Nevertheless, in order to give meaning to the research findings and progressively create theories, an ...
Our objectives in this paper are, first, to identify several puzzling aspects of the "Trilemma Argument" of Section 6 against the Sense Datum Theory; second, to resolve these puzzles by reconstructing the Trilemma A...
Charles Morris constructs his semiotics on the basis of scientific empiricism. The latter is the combination of three schools of thought, namely, formalism, empiricism and pragmatism. The former similarly consists of ...
Father Joseph-Adrien Lelarge de Lignac was born in Poitiers (France) in the year 1697. He died in Paris in 1762. In 1731, he was ordained priest and he became an oratorian the following year. His Letters to an Ameri...
In this paper I examine the contribution of feelings to the reader's literary understanding,focussing on aspects of response that have been studied through the use of empirical methods.I first provide a review of seve...