In this dissertation I examine the conceptions of opinion (<italic>doxa</italic>}), knowledge (<italic>gnosis</italic>), and understanding (<italic>episteme</italic>) that are presented by the character Socrates in Plato's <italic>Meno</italic> and <italic>Republic</italic>. A central claim I make, and one that sets my interpretation apart from…

La mayor parte de paisajes forestales en gran parte del planeta se han visto transformados en un mosaico de fragmentos de diferentes tamaños y grado de aislamiento, inmersos en una matriz de vegetación con diferentes estados de degradación. Esta transformación…

This Ph.D. thesis has covered the scientific issues of defect reactions involving dopants and impurities in Si, and the applications of this knowledge to reactive ion etching (RIE) and Fe gettering processes. The reactions among self-interstitials (Sii), vacancies (V), impurities…

Cette thèse vise à mettre en lumière, dans les Essais de Montaigne, un aspect peu connu du débat sur la constance à la fin du seizième siècle. Alors que la vertu de constance devient à cette époque un enjeu philosophique…

Dado un conjunto de agentes con una base previa de conocimiento, se desea saber cómo el nuevo conocimiento afecta a todos los agentes. Para modelar el nuevo conocimiento, se utilizóla lógica booleana, expresada mediante clausulas 2CNF, para reducir la complejidad.…

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Two main currents are clearly discernible in the Islamization of Knowledge literature regarding social science scholarship and its potential for use as a possible source of knowledge in the Islamization scheme. On the one hand, we have those who would…

The purpose of the study was to investigate whether teachers’ knowledge of student assessment was influenced by their gender and if it was related to their teaching experience (years in education). One hundred and twenty six physical education teachers (n=126)…

Artículo publicado en el libro: Crossed words: criticism in scholarly writing / Françoise Salager-Meyer & Beverly A. Lewin (eds).
p. cm. -- (Linguistic insights: studies in language and communication; v. 104)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-3-0343-0049-0
1. Academic writing. 2.…

In the last few years, several studies have emphasized the use of ontologies as an alternative to organization of the information.
The notion of ontology has become popular in fields such as intelligent information integration, information retrieval on the Internet,…