The Philosophy of Self or Truth

Truth or Punishment: Secrecy and Punishing the Self.

We live in a world that values justice; when a crime is committed, just punishment is expected to follow. Keeping one's misdeed secret therefore appears to be a strategic way to avoid (just) consequences. Yet, people may engage in self-punishment to right their own wrongs to balance their personal sense of justice. Thus, those who seek an escape from justice by keeping secrets may in fact end u...

Truth-bearers or Truth-makers?

Amsterdam Graduate Philosophy Conference — Meaning and Truth —

ion and Construction Martin Stokhof University of Amsterdam The talk takes another look at the ways in which abstraction enters into the construction of core concepts in linguistics, such as language, competence, meaning, and communication. It compares how abstraction functions in linguistics with the role it plays in other sciences. It suggests that there are a number of differences, some whic...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

the impact of cooperative questioning vs. self-questioning methods on the reading comperhension ability of iranian pre- intermediate efl learners

این تحقیق به بررسی تاثیر استفاده از روش پرسش مشارکتی در مقابل روش خود پرسشی بر توانایی خواندن زبان آموزان سطح پیش متوسطه ایرانی می پردازد. در این تحقیق تلاش شده تا متوجه شویم که آیا این استراتژی ها تاثیری بر روی توانایی خواندن زبان آموزان دارد یا نه و کدام یک تاثیر بیشتری دارد. بر این اساس 98 زبان آموز انتخاب و از طریق تست مهارتی ماک تافل همگن شدند. سپس محقق آنها را به سه گروه تقسیم کرد که این ...