A fundamental fact of human existence is that we have no access to nature or to another mind, or even to our own mind, except through signs. Our cognition of the external world is always mediated by perceptual and conceptual signs, just as our social relations are always mediated by linguistic and gestural signs. As Deely says (1988: 31): There is nothing in thought or in sensation which was no...

The free vibration analysis of the functionally graded cylindrical shell panels  with and without cutout is carried out using the finite element method based on a higher-order shear deformation theory. A higher-order theory is used to properly account for transverse shear deformation. An eight noded degenerated isoparametric shell element with nine degrees of freedom at each node is considered....

This research examined the influence of undergraduate degree and ethics education on the moral reasoning of social workers. Statistical analyses found MSW social workers with liberal arts undergraduate degrees more likely to prefer postconventional levels of moral reasoning, defined as greater complexity of thought and principled reasoning. The overall mean Defining Issues Test scores of 44.77 ...

principality of existence, which is one of the most fundamental issues in primary philosophy, is one of the main branches of ṣadr al-muti’allihīn's philosophy and nearly all discourses of transcendental philosophy are considered to be based on it, to the extent that the transcendence of mullā ṣadrā’s philosophy is considered due to the transcendence of existence and the “existence” as his first...

the problem of attributes and semantics of divine features and its relation with god’s real theism is one of the fundamental issues in theology and very often has been a sphere for representing of different believes of islamic thinkers. among them, gh?sz? sa?ed from qom, one of the greatest shiite thinkers at the time of safavi dynasty, has had a special idea about existential and semantics of ...

the idea of islamization of science is among the important issues of islamic countries of which ziaeddin sardar proposed a new theory. in his theory, the critique of western secularism and orientalism play a central role. he has given a definition of science in the framework of cultural tradition, and has tried to refer to the tradition of sunnah and quran, by redefining islamic fundamental ter...

We reviewed the researches on linguistic relativity in color, space and time domains, and rethink the relationship between language and perception to support the idea that language interact with other cognitive processes and shape the perception and thought of human. Language, perception and action are not separated systems, but are closely interconnected and highly interacted to some extent. A...