Kant’s Theory of Knowledge: A Critique of Pure Reason

Kant’s Theory of Knowledge and Reality (Critique of Pure Reason)

1. Human Knowledge and Representation

Human knowledge is finite and limited. We do not know things directly as they are in themselves (that is the privilege of an infinite mind). Instead, we know them through representations.

2. Knowledge as a Process

Human knowledge is a process of receiving and interpreting information, not a creation of it.

3. The Role of Sensitivity

Sensitivity is the capacity to be affected by objects and receive representations

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Borderline Personality Disorder: A Comprehensive Guide

Subtypes of Borderline Patients (Grinker et al. 1968)

Type I: Borderline Psychotic

  • Conduct: maladaptive and inappropriate
  • Problems with reality testing and sense of identity
  • Negative and openly expressed anger

Type II: Central Borderline

  • General negative affect
  • Vacillating commitment
  • Performance of anger
  • Inherent identity

Type III: Group as If

  • Tendency to copy the identity of others
  • Lack of affection
  • More appropriate conduct
  • Relationships lacking genuineness and spontaneity

Type IV: Borderline Neurotic

  • Anaclitic
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Human & Animal Communication: Language, Thought & Reality

Human and Animal Communication

Animal Behavior and Communication

Stereotyped Behaviors:

Some animals exhibit learned and behavioral patterns without defects. These animals typically have simpler nervous systems (e.g., bees, ants).

Learned Behaviors:

In other animals, individual experiences leave a mark on memory and alter future conduct. These animals are capable of learning through experience.

Language learning enriches human communication behaviors and intentional intelligibility. It requires a specific

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Understanding Schizophrenia: Clinical Forms and Symptoms

Schizophrenia: Clinical Forms

Hebephrenic Schizophrenia

This form typically begins between 15 and 20 years of age. It’s characterized by a progressive emotional emptiness, loss of interest in the external world, and the development of extravagant personality features. Emotional indifference, ambivalence, depersonalization, and a detachment from reality are prominent. Unmotivated agitation and aggression may occur, alongside signs of disintegrated thought and volitional processes.

Simple Schizophrenia

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Conflict Theories in Sociology

Turk and Dahrendorf

Most sociological research on diversion works are characterized by accepting that there was consensus. The opposite is the paradigm of the conflict.

For Dahrendorf, it was necessary to replace the integration theory of society with a different model. This model is characterized by arguing that the conflict goes beyond the class conflict of Marxist theory to cover the conflict that occurs within what is called “imperatively coordinated associations“. These partnerships are the union

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Human Sexuality, Reproduction, and Hygiene

Phenotype: These are the physical characteristics we see in a person.
Genotype: It’s all about the genes and heredity.
Biological Sex: This is determined by the sum of an individual’s genotype and genotype profile.
Sex Hormones: Biological sex is influenced by sex hormones.
Phenotypic Sex: Development begins in the 8th embryonic week, influenced by the presence of testes and testosterone, and vice versa.
Sex Allocation: This is the sex assigned to a child at birth, usually based on external genitalia.

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