Accepting the unknowables of entrepreneurship and overcoming philosophical obstacles to scientific progress

Institutional Obstacles to Entrepreneurship

The Ontological Status of Species: Scientific Progress and Philosophical Terminology

(1) Biological species are not classes, as traditionally defined, because they have no essence and because they have various properties (see 2 and 3) that are incompatible with the class concept. (2) Among non-class properties of species are their spatiotemporal localization, their boundedness, their internal cohesiveness, and their capacity to change (evolve). (3) Other non-class properties of...

Overcoming the Obstacles to Leadership

Lacey's high school needed her talent and skills. Located in an urban, working-class community, the school was struggling to serve all students well and had failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress for two years running. As a social studies teacher, Lacey had developed considerable skill in teaching with a project-based format during her four years in the classroom, and her students were making ...

the role of semantic and communicative translation on reading comprehension of scientific texts

the following null hypothesis was proposed: h : there is no significant difference between the use of semantically or communicatively translates scientific texts. to test the null hypothesis, a number of procedures were taken first, two passages were selected form soyrcebooks of food and nutrition industry and gardening deciplines. each, in turn, was following by a number of comprehension quest...

Problems of scientific revolution. Progress and obstacles to progress in the sciences

R. HARRI, (editor), Problems of scientific revolution. Progress and obstacles to progress in the sciences, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. vii, 104, £1.75. The six essays in this book represent the Herbert Spencer Lectures for 1973, and their main theme is one that was central to Spencer's thought, and in keeping with his political and moral convictions. It is the growth of scientific k...