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The paper relates that information theory uses a combination of epistemology, axiology, and cybernetics to explain communication and its processes. The paper explains that while most of the theory explains communication through uncompromising numbers and mathematics, the axiological approach uses values and choice to explain relationships. Nonetheless, the paper relates that cybernetics was the first concept in information theory and was conceived over five decades ago in an attempt to reduce communication to a science.

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"Information theory uses a combination of epistemology, axiology, and cybernetics to explain and communication and its processes. While most of the theory explains communication through uncompromising numbers and mathematics, the axiological approach uses values and choice to explain..."

Tags:information, cybernetics, theory

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This paper examines a teacher's personal philosophy of special education, which includes the metaphysical, epistemological, axiological, and logical schools of thought. In the paper, the author describes these philosophical approaches from which she draws her outlooks. Each of these is explored briefly and shown how they fit into her overall viewpoint on education. Additionally, the author addresses how special learners must be aware of their limitations yet harness their abilities to go beyond these limits. The paper concludes with a discussion of the importance of implementing a special education philosophy and it being part of a teacher's mission.

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"Philosophers of education have approached their subject in many different ways. One course may restrict itself to studying a single philosophy of education, while another course may be a survey of the various philosophies that have been presented, with an eye to discovering their similarities and differences. (Dolhenty, 2003) It becomes even more challenging when it is in the milieu of special education since this already involves educating learners or students with learning needs that cannot be covered by the regular scholastic curricula. For most lay people, the moment they hear special education the first thing that comes to their minds is the teaching of persons with learning disabilities such as the autistic. But personally, I consider special education as teaching those that are can find the standard school curricula a challenge; this may include immigrants and foreign students whose native language is not English."

Tags:special needs students, applied philosophy, educational philosophy

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Providing an in-depth analysis of the content, methods, and intent of research helps us not only to achieve a greater understanding of the actual implications of the study in question, but also to assist us in determining the applicability of the study to our own research. This paper examines two very different studies for just these elements. Within the analysis, we will look at several aspects of each to demonstrate that, with careful reading, we can determine the relevance and strength of published research. The two studies chosen for this comparative analysis are: Penny M. Pexman and Kara M. Olineck's "Does Sarcasm Always Sting? Investigating the Impact of Ironic Insults and Ironic Compliments", and Yuko Mizuno and May Kennedy's "An Examination of Adolescents Who Were and Were Not Exposed to 'Teens Stopping AIDS'". What this paper will first present is basic information about each of the studies including the theory and key concepts advanced in the article, a description of the research proposed, including the hypotheses and research questions, a description of the methodology, and finally a description of the findings themselves. Second, this paper will determine the Worldview of the research and how that worldview affects the ontological assumptions being made within the work. Then, it will examine the epistemological and axiological assumptions being made. Finally, using Littlejohn's criteria, the theory of each will be evaluated.

Tags:interpretation, two, studies

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This analysis of the film "Erin Brockovich" uses the meta-theory of interpretive communicative and the social interaction theory to describe how reality in the film is constructed socially. The paper provides examples of interpretive theory as evidence in the film from the ontological, axiological and epistemological perspectives.

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"As argued by Miller, interpretive theories aid in our understanding of a world that is socially constructed through communicative interaction and these theories aim to reflect the complexity of both the ..."

Tags:gender, roles, values, meaning, norms, power, language, knowledge

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The paper focuses on three different branches of philosophy including metaphysics, epistemology and axiology. The paper explains how epistemology refers to the study that tries to go deeper into the meaning and scope of knowledge, axiology is concerned with values that people attach to things and metaphysics deals with the nature of reality that goes beyond the normal scope of science.

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"Metaphysics on the other hand transcends common knowledge. It is that branch of philosophy that deals with nature of reality that goes beyond the normal scope of science. It is by far the most important component of philosophy and the origin of it is credited to the works of Aristotle. Meta literally means, "after," but in philosophy it also means beyond or above thus indicating that metaphysics is a science that transcends physics. In his own writings, Aristotle called the study first philosophy, the science of being or ontology, and theology. It may be defined, tentatively as the science of the first principles of reality, or the theory of the structure and meaning of reality as a whole, or the theory of the nature of the cosmos."

Tags:metaphysics, epistemology, axiology

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The paper discusses aspects of Aristotle's "Metaphysics" such as characteristics of the sage, ontology, axiology, ausiology, and the principle of non-contradiction.

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"In describing the characteristics of knowledge held by the sage or wise person, Aristotle in "Metaphysics" identifies reasons why the highest realization of knowledge must have certain characteristics. They must be universal, most difficult because farthest from the senses, most exact because involving fewer principles, the basis for instruction because they provide knowledge of the causes, most desirable in itself because concerned with the first principles, and finally, most authoritative. This is because Aristotle held that he who knows the highest causes must know the supreme good in..."

Tags:Aristotle, Metaphysics

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"This paper examines the philosophical concept of the paradigm, taking under consideration Erving Goffman's dramaturgical paradigm as evidenced in a study at the Ritz-Carlton. Philosophical terminology such as paradigm, philosophical framework, ontology, axiology, rhetoric, and methodology is defined, and the Ritz-Carlton scenario is described in terms of Goffman's dramaturgical paradigm. A high-level outline is included.

Tags:paradigm, paradigm shift, Kuhn, Crotty, Goffman, social research, Ritz-Carlton, dramaturgical paradigm

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This paper begins by highlighting the primary role played by communication in gender issues throughout the world and points up the variations within cultures. The paper then describes some salient elements of intercultural communication in order to illustrate how gender communication is a form of intercultural communications. Finally, the paper makes recommendations on how to develop effective intercultural communication skills to the situation of variations of women across cultures.

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"There are two assumptions from communication theory (both classical and contemporary theories) that help situate one's overview on gender and communication. First, communication is epistemic. That is to say, communication is the medium by which one comes to know things (it has been argued that absolute truth was inaccessible to humans; hence, truth had to be established by human standards. Similarly, contemporary rhetorical theorists argue that truth is socially constructed through language and other symbol systems)."

Tags:interpretation, gender, differences, epistemic, rhetorical, axiological, value, laden

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The paper examines Hume's conception of justice grounded in material experience vs. Kant's conception of morality grounded in pure reason, and why Kant's conception is more satisfactory as a philosophical method.

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"This research critically examines David Hume's treatment of justice and ethics. It will explain the context for Hume's philosophical work and provide an overview of his account of ethics with particular attention to his theory of motivation and the role of reason. The relevance of Hume's account of ethics to his theory of justice as a so-called artificial virtue that operates in an environment of scarcity and utility will be considered and discussed, with a view toward identifying problems that his ideas leave unresolved. Following this will be a..."

Tags:justice, categorical imperative, materialism, morality, epistemology, axiology, ethics