Memes with the Watson keyword “Philosophical Concept”

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How Science Resists the Philosophical Concept that Perception is Flawed

In the traditional theory, which still is the prevailing one, there were alleged to exist inherent defects in perception and observation as means of knowledge, in reference to the subjectmatter they furnish. This material, in the older notion, is inherently so particular, so contingent and variable, that by no…

Jun 15, 2016 1

knowledge
perception

Plato's Theory of Forms and Object Oriented Programming

In the theory of forms, Plato posits that there were these things called "forms," and a form is basically an abstract concept that represents some sort of object that exists. Then these objects were basically some sort of particular thing that has form-ness of some kind. So you can almost think of this as like a class…

May 11, 2013 1 2

computer science
forms
modeling
oop
philosophy