...A2 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE What follows should act as reminders. For full revision you need to do more than rely on these notes. Use your course notes, essays and text books. 1. Key Words: Religious language is cognitive if it is thought of as conveying knowledge of what is really there. Religious language is non-cognitive it is thought as conveying feelings or expressing desires or guiding ways of behaving. Religious language is realist if it is thought of as conveying testable facts that actually pertain in reality. Religious language is non-realist it is thought of as conveying guiding ideals but with no basis in factual reality. Religious language offers a correspondence theory of truth if it is thought of as being able to point to the reality that it is trying to convey. Religious language offers a coherence theory of truth if it is thought of as conveying making sense within a network of other beliefs which people hold to be true. 2. What Religious Language is: Religious language is an outlet for emotion in special times of life. Religious language is the language of worship. It is performative, ‘I baptise you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit’, and it is prescriptive (law making – i.e. honour your father and mother). However, none these uses of religious language is our focus. Our focus is how religious language might make truth claims about the reality of God and whether it can succeed in doing this. Philosophers...
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...verified by a sense-observation. If you cannot demonstrate with sense-observations how a statement is true, then the statement is factually meaningless. A ‘putative proposition’ is the name Ayer gives to statements yet to be verified. A putative statement is either verifiable practically or in principle. For instance, a statement such as “that is a red car” is verifiable in practice by looking at the car. However, a statement such as “There is life in another universe” is verifiable in principle but not in practice, as we possess insufficient technology. Therefore Ayer then makes distinctions between strong and weak verification. Strong verification refers to any statement that can be verified as true beyond any doubts through sense experience, and a weakly verifiable proposition is most probable. For example if I picked up a book and stated ‘this book contains 300 pages’ this can be conclusively verified without any doubt and therefore would be a strong verification. On...
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...: F Nationality : Correspondence Address City : State : Country : ZIP CODE Country : ZIP CODE Mobile No.(including ISD/STD code) email: Permanent Address City : State : Mobile No.(including ISD/STD code) email: Languages Known (Underline native language) UNDERSTAND 1. 2. 3. 4. READ WRITE Family Information (Including brothers and sisters if any) NAME RELATION QUALIFICATION DESIGNATION ORGANISATION 1. FATHER 2. MOTHER 3. 4. 5. Educational Qualifications BOARD / DEGREE / DIPLOMA SCHOOL / COLLEGE PERIOD ATTENDED SUBJECT/ DISCIPLINE GRADE / % FROM : (mm/yy) SCHOOL : 10th TO : (mm/yy) FROM : (mm/yy) SCHOOL : 10+2 TO : (mm/yy) FROM : (mm/yy) GRADUATION TO : (mm/yy) Full Time Part Time FROM : (mm/yy) POST GRADUATION TO : (mm/yy) Full Time Part Time English Language Proficiency Not Taken TOEFL IELTS Date of Test Score Passport Details I have a passport Yet to apply Employment History Total Work Experience Years Months Name of the Last Org : Address of Org : Designation : Period - From : Last Salary Drawn (CTC) Per Annum : To : Not Applicable Management Test Scores (Fill applicable column) Test GMAT CAT CMAT MAT Score Note : Management Test Scores are not mandatory. Hobbies Awards / Achievements (If any) Write in not more than...
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...HRM410 Course Draft and Final Version REQUIRED Template Student Name: | Jerry Seidl | Instructions: * Use this required template for the Week 3 Draft of your project (your Handbook below must be 25% completed for full-points consideration) and 100% complete for the Week 7 final version. * Remember, this is a Staffing Handbook, not an Employee Handbook * Remember that no more than 10% of the completed Handbook can be from borrowed material (so plan accordingly on any borrowed material used in the draft). The majority of the Handbook must be original—meaning written by the student. ALL sources used (textbook, Internet, etc.) must be cited via proper APA citations (both in-text with quotation marks and a References section). This includes any forms or samples in the Handbook. Everything in the Handbook will count towards the “no more than 10% borrowed” requirement, including forms. It is advisable if you create these yourself. * See the Course Project tab for lengthier descriptions of each section. The specifics of the requirements of each section are NOT included here. * Text font can be no larger than 12. * You do not need to include a table of contents. * Be sure to insert your fictitious company name, where needed, in the Handbook below. * Your Handbook must be full 10-12 pages (not including this page, the cover page, or any reference page), double-spaced. You may single-space any forms or samples you create. * Note that the spacing placed between...
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...to being incomprehensible and pointless. If we are to take the logical positivist approach then we would view all religious language as meaningless. For logical positivists the entire discipline of philosophy was centred on one task, which was to clarify the meaning of concepts and ideas. In turn, this led them to look at statements and inquire just what the “meaning” of them was, and what sort of statements really did have any “meaning.” A group of philosophers that known as the Vienna circle took a univocal approach to language, that is to say, that we mean the same thing when we talk about God and man. The logical positivists formulated the verification principle which saw assertions which are only verifiable through observation or experience, can be deemed meaningful. In this case, other assertions are either analytic or meaningless utterances. This approach was built on the work of both John Locke and David Hume, who argued that all philosophical matters must be approached with a strict empirical system. Thus, according to the verification principle, meaningful assertions fall into three categories. The first category is analytic statements. These are logical propositions as they are true by definition and contain there truth within the premise and are necessarily true. The second were mathematical statements, which have to be necessarily true throughout the universe. The final criterion is synthetic...
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...end” -epistemic distance between us and God -Universal salvation -Replica theory -traducianism (soul inherited from parents) -Price’s mental world= consistent Price -“mental world” in which we live Karl Popper -falsification principle, true until proven otherwise Antony Flew -parable of the two gardeners, death of a thousand qualifications - historical evidence, tested experience -God could have made us free, but do the right thing R.M Hare -bliks, lunatics Basil Mitchell -resistance leader, rel people may accept points, but view won’t change Maimonedes -via negative avoids anthropomorphism of God! Scotus -analogy as a means of describing God= vague Aquinas -Analogy of attribution(good bread=good baker)/ analogy of proportion (it’s all relative) -God cant do “non actions” like 2+2=5 - God is timeless, REASON, we get his nature via revelation Tillich - symbols unlock things from God Bultmann -demythologising stories Wittgenstein -picture theory of language, language games James -physcology, empiricism,pluralism, pragmatism -passive, ineffable, noetic, transient -Philosopher/ Phychologist -rel exp has mental dimension, not just this -truth is in the results! Otto -Wholly Other Schliemacher -emotional experiences Buber -I thou relationship Feuerbach - God is man in large letters Freud - God stems from childhood Jung -rel exp is a result of collective unconscious Alston -rel exp may be the same as normal exp? Broad -blind...
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...resurrected on the third day” would be seen as meaningless as we cannot test this claim in the here and now. Once again this stresses the fact that we cannot say anything meaningful about God using the strong verification principle as we cannot physically see him in our present time. This principle criticised itself because it not only meant that we could say nothing meaningful about God but also past historical events since we are unable to verify their certainty. However the weak verification principle allows statements to have meaning if the means to which a statement can be verified are known. This allows for historical & scientific statements to be seen as meaningful if it is possible in practise to gather the evidence, and if experience and observation can establish the statements as probable. In this instance the statements “Jesus resurrected on the third day” or “God exists” are meaningful, even though I cannot go back to the past to...
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...Analyzing the Impact of the Web Lutricia Hunter Capella University ABSTRACT The development of the web has dramatically changed the way society acquires and publishes information. This has had both positive and negative impacts on education. As the information available on the web expands, the number of industries that it will impact will also increase. Traditional brick and mortar school buildings as we know them today will gradually become a thing of the past as society transcends into the age of convenience. In the presented assignment I will be analyzing “Will the Web Kill Colleges?” This assignment will describe the key points of the author’s argument, analyze the aspects of the author’s argument that I agree with, analyze the gaps or challenges that I see in the author’s argument, implications for education, and potential ethical questions raised by the author’s vision of the future. The development of the web has dramatically changed the way society acquires and publishes information. This has had both positive and negative impacts on education. As the information available on the web expands, the number of industries that it will impact will also increase. Traditional brick and mortar school buildings as we know them today will gradually become a thing of the past as society transcends into the age of convenience. In the present assignment I will be analyzing “Will the Web Kill Colleges?” This assignment will describe the key points of the author’s argument...
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...| REPORT FOR A RECRUITMENT SELECTION PROCESS | | | | | You have been asked by Johnsons Care Company to recruit a new Administrative Assistant for them. Write a report for a recruitment selection process that could be used to select this person | The purpose of this report is to understand the effective recruitment selection process from Johnson Company in recruiting the suitable candidate of Administrative Assistance in their organizations. Recruitment selection process is a procedure of engaging individual suitable qualifications with abilities to apply for a position in an organizations. We will look into the KSAOs model as an assessment of recruitment selection process for the position of Administrative Assistance in Johnson Company. KSAOs are the model that consist in Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other characteristics that a basic applicant must possess in order to perform and excel successfully in the position. Moreover, KSAOs typically divided into two major categories which consist of technical and behavioral. From technical perspective, KSAOs measure attributes knowledge and “hard” technical skills, like the basic administrative and management in the warehouse for an administrative assistance position in this instance. Behavioral KSAOs measure “soft” skills which consist of the attitudes and approaches that applicants applied in the work strategy, such as the ability to collaborate and communicate on wide level of range with the warehouse...
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...INTRODUCTION Internal control, the strength of every organization, has become of paramount importance today in Nigerian banks. The reason being that the control systems in any organization is a pillar for an efficient accounting system. The need for the internal control systems in the organizations, especially banks, cannot be undermined, due to the fact that the banking sector, which has a crucial role to play in the economic development of a nation is now being characterized by macro economic instability, slow growth in real economic activities, corruption and the risk of fraud. Fraud, which is the major reason for setting up on internal control system, has become a great pain in the neck of many Nigerian bank managers. It has also become an unfortunate staple in Nigeria’s international reputation. Fraud is really eating deep into the Nigerian banking system and that any bank with a weak internal control system, is dangerously exposed to bank fraud. The CBN reported that cases of attempted fraud and forgery in banks, as at half-year 2007 have surpassed what was recorded for the whole year 2006. The CBN half-year report for 2007, revealed a total of 741 cases of attempted fraud and forgery, involving 5.4 billion, $35,406.1, 150 Euros were reported as at June, 2007. In 2006, 1,193 cases were reported involving 4.6 billion, $1.8 million and 14,389.7 pound sterling. The CBN also reported that the backward development was attributable to weaknesses in the internal control...
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...ID:................................... Admissions, Enrollment and International Relations Department P.O. Box 59911, Abu Dhabi, UAE T 971 2 501 5555, F 971 2 501 5990 P.O. Box 1790, Al Ain, UAE T 971 3 767 0000, F 971 3 767 0001 Application for UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSION All applications are considered on the basis of qualifications regardless of national origin, race, religion, color, gender or disability. All documents received by Abu Dhabi University become the property of the university. The documents will not be returned, forwarded to another institution or duplicated for any purposes other than admission. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE FILLING IN THE APPLICATION FORM: 1. All items must be filled in. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 2. Applicants must complete the application themselves. 3. An admission offer is valid for one academic year only. 4. Applicants should not wait to apply until the results of the High School examinations or its equivalent, are announced. They are advised to apply early (However, missing documents should be submitted to the Admission Department before the announced admission deadline.) 5. The admission requirements stated below are applicable to all of the Colleges/Departments/ Programs/Campuses of Abu Dhabi University. 6. The Admissions Committee is responsible for reviewing and evaluating the admission policies on regular basis. 7. Documents required to complete the admission process are: A...
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...* Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences | Year: 2009 | Volume: 6 | Issue: 4 | Page No.: 181-189 | | Impact of Internal Control System in Banking Sector in Nigeria | | Olaoye Clement Olatunji | | Abstract: The Central Bank of Nigeria reported that the backward development in Nigeria was attributable to weaknesses in the internal control systems of the banks. This has clearly pointed out the picture of how fraud has been penetrated in the financial strength of Nigerian Banks. In a nut-shell, the damage which this menace, called fraud has done to the banks is innumerable and needs urgent attention. Therefore, the attempt to put an end to this economic degradation, gave rise to the topic of this research study the impact of internal control in the banking sector in Nigeria with Wema Bank of Nigeria PLC as a case study. However, this study is aimed at verifying the conception that an effective and efficient internal control system is the best control measure for preventing and detecting fraud, especially in the banking sector. Data captured for this study, were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistical methods. The descriptive analysis involves the use of percentages, tabulation and graphical presentation. While the inferential statistical method involved the use of the chi-square. The functions of fraud prevention, detection and control are interwoven, as the three works together to eliminate fraud and fraudulent tendencies. Therefore, internal control...
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...-314-621-8881 F -314-621-8887 Kitchen Hours: Monday-Thursday 11am-10pm Friday & Saturday 11am-11pm Sunday 11am-9pm Late Night Menu (Fri & Sat) 11pm-1am Forms of Payment: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Cash, Travelers Checks, Over/Under Gift Certificates NON-DISCRIMINATORY WORKPLACE The Over/Under Bar and Grill is an equal opportunity employer. We will not tolerate discrimination based on race, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. Employment decisions, such as hiring, promotion, compensation, training and discipline will be made only for legitimate business reasons based upon qualifications and other nondiscriminatory factors. WORKING RELATIONSHIP Missouri follows the Employment-At-Will doctrine. This means that both the employer and employee can terminate the employment relationship at any time and for any reason, as long as there is no employment contract to the contrary, there is no discrimination under civil rights laws (based on race, color, age, national origin, religion, ancestry, sex, or physician/mental disability), no merit laws apply, or the state’s limited public policy exception does not apply. EXAMPLES OF, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, CONDUCT RESULTING IN IMMEDIATE TERMINATION • Failure to follow management instructions or guidelines • Rudeness to guests • Poor or inattentive service • Failure...
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...competence, and abilities. As a manager and supervisor of any company or organization, I would want my employees to be more than applicable for the position in which they are applying for. Although I do understand that employees have to start somewhere in the workforce before their skills, competence, and abilities are fully developed. Employees would need the skills required to carry out the duties and responsibilities to effectively fulfill their position. Employees need to possess not only the skills but also the qualifications and knowledge of the position showing that they are competent enough to carry out their duties. Employees should possess physical, mental, and emotional abilities to handle the position in which they are hired. In the scenario provided, Jennifer does not possess the skills, competence, and abilities needed to fulfill her position in my accounting firm. As a recent graduate of college, Jennifer hasn’t acquired any experience and apparently needs more training. Jennifer says that she is a good worker but her actions fail to show that. I have two choices in response to this scenario. I could let Jennifer go or I could train Jennifer over to be the employee I need her to be to fulfill her position in my...
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...Case Study Analysis Paper Frieda Asep Johnson COMM215 August 11, 2014 Mark Polanzak Case Study Analysis Paper Timeline Scheduling: A New Recruiter’s Placement of New Recruits As a well established textile company, ABC, Inc. has a long standing tradition in assigning job placement staff to surrounding colleges at the end of each semester. It is a means of recruiting the best candidates for employment upon graduation. Also new to our staff, Carl Robins, a Recruiter of six months in the Personnel department, has demonstrated a great capacity for succeeding in his role. Moreover, to safeguard and promote the standards maintaining personnel hiring policies, our organizational workflows have been put in place to systematically or chronologically cluster-link processes with staff, resources, and state of the art technology to complete diverse tasks. After a close examination, indicators strongly suggest discontinuity in the process threatening adverse affects upon expected outcomes. In such an event, repercussions would be exhibited in a dominos effect throughout the company to greater or lesser degree; but the individual(s) responsible to oversee the campaign success, would be held to higher accountability. How vitally important, then, it is to observe with an eye towards turning the well established premise that preparing for complete failure can be traced back to failing to completely prepare—albeit, unintentionally. In his duties, Carl has the unique charge...
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