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 Topic: End of History |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 14 Views: 1113 |
 Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:11 pm Subject: End of History |
| - What exactly is Fukuyama’s hypothesis/thesis in your own words? Does he make a convincing, well-proven case? Do you agree with him? Why or why not?
- How might the ideas apply to your final proje ... |
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| Topic: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schroedinger |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 14 Views: 646 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:45 pm Subject: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schroedinger |
| Nica brought up an important point that as the study of quantum mechanics furthered, things became not so predictable. The methods had changed over time. What people thought could be measured by refin ... | |
| Topic: Modern Times |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 13 Views: 620 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 10:59 pm Subject: Modern Times |
| I found it interesting that the word "insight", instead of "discovery"/"conclusion" was chosen to capture Einstein's theories. Starting from Newton, the scientists made e ... | |
| Topic: Newton's View of the World |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 16 Views: 824 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:55 pm Subject: Newton's View of the World |
| I found it very surprising, even shocking to see that Newton's observation of different colors of light was commonly explained by Aristotle's theory. I see a huge huge gap between these two guys.. Wha ... | |
| Topic: The Great Cat Massacre |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 13 Views: 1633 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:40 pm Subject: The Great Cat Massacre |
| I wouldn't day Constat was a historian. And the account, in my view, cannot be counted as history. Similarly I wouldn't call the journals I wrote that account past events in my life is history either. ... | |
| Topic: Darwin, Marx and Turner: Day 2 |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 15 Views: 1151 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 3:45 pm Subject: Darwin, Marx and Turner: Day 2 |
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- Changes are inevitable. - They all proposed theories/ideologies that fundamentally re-shaped people's view on natural world and/or the development of societies. - Both nature and hum ... |
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| Topic: Darwin, Marx and Turner: Day 2 |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 15 Views: 1151 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:06 am Subject: Darwin, Marx and Turner: Day 2 |
| Make 2 lists:
• What do these 3 thinkers have in common? • Where do they diverge from each other? Post • Are the philosophies and methodologies of science and history changing in ways that ar ... |
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| Topic: Darwin, Marx and Turner: Day 1 |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 13 Views: 1027 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:51 pm Subject: Darwin, Marx and Turner: Day 1 |
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Dictionary.com has two definitions for "theory". 1. a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation a ... |
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| Topic: Darwin, Marx and Turner: Day 1 |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 13 Views: 1027 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:17 pm Subject: Darwin, Marx and Turner: Day 1 |
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Darwin: • Succinctly state Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection • Look up the definition of “theory”. According to Darwin, what makes a good theory? What made his theory so hard to ... |
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| Topic: Kant and Hegel: Day 2 |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 14 Views: 1498 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:56 pm Subject: Kant and Hegel: Day 2 |
| I think people pretty much covered all the major points of Kant and Hegel, so I will just jump into their influence on science and history.
Kant's contribution to science would be his notion that in ... |
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| Topic: Kant and Hegel: Day 1 |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 13 Views: 1134 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:44 pm Subject: Kant and Hegel: Day 1 |
| Zoey brought up this really important point that They abandon the previous views that man and nature are separate, and mind and matter outside mind are separate and do not affect each other... Both Ka ... | |
| Topic: Galileo |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 16 Views: 1391 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:26 pm Subject: Galileo |
| I shared Sam's curiosity in what 'empiricist philosopher" is, so I looked it up.
"The dispute between rationalism and empiricism concerns the extent to which we are dependent upon sense ... |
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| Topic: Herodotus and Thucydides |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 17 Views: 1419 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 10:51 pm Subject: Herodotus and Thucydides |
| Yiwei Qi
I would say that Herodotus is the father of history (as a discipline), and Thucydides the father of researching methods of history. Herodotus drew information from various resources such ... |
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| Topic: Aristotle Reading and Post |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 15 Views: 1492 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 4 Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:49 pm Subject: Yiwei Qi |
| *What is the role of experience and logic in acquiring knowledge?
I would relate my answer to this question to Mijia's question about whether we can truly gain knowledge without first-hand experie ... |
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| Topic: Zero Ace and Unit 731 |
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| Yqi2013 Replies: 7 Views: 672 |
Forum: Modern Japan Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:11 am Subject: Zero Ace and Unit 731 |
| As both of the accounters said, they struggle a lot after the war. They needed to re-examine their identities because identities were lost during the wars. Being used as tools, as discussed in previou ... | |
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