Knowing Yourself and Being Worth Knowing

Knowing Yourself

The paper discusses the concept of energy, its transformation, and transmission. Any physical object, event, word, sound, thought or even money is seen as a bundle of energy. This is a fictional story suggesting direction of technological/scientific development in the future.

Knowing How vs . Knowing That

More than forty years after Gilbert Ryle published his paper on "Knowing How and Knowing That" in 1945, 1 the problem of practical knowledge has still failed to establish for itself a secure position in the field of problems dealt with by analytic philosophers. Thus even today it can safely be asserted that it is discursive or theoretical knowledge, knowledge linguistically expressed, above all...

Emancipatory knowing: Hidden necessity

Background & Aim: Knowledge patterns in nursing are key foundation elements for the development of knowledge and practice. Carper identified four fundamental knowledge patterns; empirical, personal, ethical and aesthetic. Chain and Kramer added the pattern of emancipatory knowledge to Carperchr('39')s patterns. The pattern of emancipatory knowledge in nursing has been neglected. The aim of this...

Hantavirus Pulmonar Syndrome: A Zebra Worth Knowing -- American Family Physician

www.aafp.org/afp AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN 1015 omyscus maniculatus), one of the most common small mammals in the United States. Additionally, the cotton rat and rice rat are the rodent vectors in the southeastern United States for the Black Creek Canal and Bayou viruses, respectively; the whitefooted mouse carries the New York virus in the northeast. Before 1993, illness caused by hantaviral i...

Knowing Me, Knowing You: Networks of Cooperation