Ontology: The Frames Of Ontology

The seclusion endured by the narrator causes a dramatic change in her mental state. Her surroundings are now coming alive within the walls around her. “I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman” (736). Initially, the figure witnessed around the walls was merely just the shadow projected from the narrator creeping around the paper. Now this shadow is taking on not just any life form but ironically the form of a woman. Just like the narrator is trapped within the barred windows of the mansion, the woman is trapped within the patterns of the paper. This parallel view is transforming the narrator’s identity within the walls of the paper. However, this obsession begins to heighten. She begins to see the woman through every window in the bedroom. She appears to be creeping not only around the walls but now outside in the garden and along the

Charlotte Gilman, through the first person narrator, speaks to the reader of the stages of psychic disintegration by sharing the narrator's heightened perceptions: "That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid, but I don't care--there is something strange about the house--I can feel it" (304). The conflicting

How can one feel non-existent in a vast world of existence? We cease to exist in our own virtual reality. As humans, we develop distractions to hide the thoughts that blind us from our true existence. We never truly grasp how it affects our livelihood because we try so hard to avoid it. Ultimately, we come to a point in our lives where we decide to face reality, or escape. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five & Vladimir Nabokov’s Symbols and Signs both explore the psychological theme of escaping the physical world around us.

For nearly a thousand years, the ontological argument has captured the attention of philosophers. The ontological argument was revolutionary in its sequence from thought to reality. It was an argument that did not require any corresponding experiment in reality; it functioned without the necessity of empirical data. Despite flaws and problems found in some ontological arguments and the objections raised to those arguments, ontological arguments still provide a phenomenal vehicle for ontological discussion through St. Anselm’s original ideas and argument, objections raised, and revisions of previous arguments. The ontological argument still intrigues philosophers despite potential objections and flaws

Uncanny encounters with visions and hallucinations blur the presumed constraints of time and space. The ‘phantasms’ or sensory impressions incited by diurnal experiences which are unrealized in normal consciousness, gets holistically unveiled through conjuration of dreams. Referring to one of the foremost exponents of ‘weird’ literature Howard Phillips Lovecraft, definite emotions

A small group of people sat around a ouija board expecting nothing to happen. A few nervous giggles were exchanged amongst each other. The laughter quickly stopped when the planchette stopped moving and the room became cold; the air turned thick and heavy. Something entered the space, a feeling of distress surrounded the group. They became paranoid, and felt like there was something looking at them from the dark corners. After what felt like hours trying to end the session, the planchette still refused to move, almost as if it was frozen on the board. As their impatience quickly grew, they forced the planchette to goodbye. The feeling of despair had vanished, but the feeling of being watched remained as everyone left the room that night. Some view the ouija board as a harmless game, but many have faced the terrifying reality of the mysterious “talking board.” The ouija board is a phenomenon that is a legitimate means of communicating with spirits.

I agree, semantic interoperability is critical for clinical data, the information must remain the same. Semantic interoperability would help improve the view of data, such with drug data, lab data, leveraging patient’s data and etc. It will provide precise and reliable communication among computers.

The philosopher that gets to the core of this historical and philosophical shift that results from Cartesian thought is none other than Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), the French phenomenologist. In Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty both owes heavily to the Cartesian tradition, by heavily undermining it, with the remainder being an analysis of lived experience itself, other wise know as the phenomenological tradition. This critique is no more notable than the critique of the attitude that arises in Descartes' "wax analogy" in order to demonstrate a paradigm shift in Western philosophical (and eventually political) thought. This paper will demonstrate Merleau-Ponty's justified problems with Descartes' "wax analogy".

Therefore, fate alters its face when a train intercepts a line and shifts this perceived reality toward another that transpires in this immutable body. And, time makes its regular circuits with the expired stories and their copies; in the molecules of degenerated and aborted bodies.

Starting with the Scientific Revolution, humanity has adhered to the supposedly well-reasoned and infallible rationalist philosophy, characterized by the preference for reasoning over experience, which inevitably accompanies impersonal fields such as the sciences. Although the scientific approach avoids preternatural speculation, its implications altered the fundamental way in which we understand that which is on a quantum level, and such a revelation transcends any reifications perpetuated by preceding generations. Fortunately, English philosopher Owen Barfield’s Saving the Appearances transcends temporally restricted notions of reality, and this novel serves as a template by which we begin to comprehend the potential for consciousness as reality’s impetus, and through which individual consciousness acts to create reality. With this in mind, New Age philosophers such as physician Deepak Chopra advocate consciousness precedes matter’s presence in the chronology of reality. Comparatively, social scientist Willis Harman and, to an extent, biologist Rupert Sheldrake, adopt a more radical hypothesis: human consciousness creates reality. Presently, iconoclastic New Age theories suggest human consciousness creates reality and hypothesizes our ability to manipulate abstracts, such as time and bodily systems, in order to prolong one’s life or increase one’s health. Through conscious awareness, we can discern how consciousness creates reality; this awareness thusly enables us to

Are there holes? This might seem like a simple question, but it is not to philosophers at times. This is a question of ontological importance, the question of what exist. W.V. Quine seeks to highlight ontologies purpose, and ultimately their function in his paper, “On What There Is”. This paper was very influential in the philosophical world in term to what we consider as ontology. In this paper, we will go through Quine’s thought process on the question of non-being and the use of descriptive statements to cut through what Quine actually considers as ontology. Then from there we will explore the problem of holes and come to a, hopefully, satisfying conclusion about the best possible ontology for knowing if holes exist.

I could also visit Dulwich College and perceive the building itself. By comparing my view with Pissaro's painting I can see enough similarities to assume that we perceived the same public neutral object. Consequently, these objects must exist independently of the minds that perceive them.

This analysis/evaluation is based on Ontological argument given by a very famous philosopher, St. Anselm and the argument against it, by Douglas Gasking.

According to Tom Gruber, an AI specialist at Stanford University, “ontology is the specification of conceptualization, used to help programs and human share knowledge.” Ontology also is a description about the concepts and relationships that can exist for an agent or community of agent. A description in this case means it’s like a formal specification of the program.

Nevertheless, the Ghost’s identity remains obscure. Its theatricality dominates it. This affects its possible identities. As it identifies primarily as assuming the shape or role of a certain person, the Ghost is chiefly an actor. An actor is comparable to an image. An image accommodates difference and repetition, presence and absence and being and representation. Gilles Deleuze maintains that in the realm of representation “la difference ne cesse en effect d’etré un concept reflexif.”