Phenomenal Manifestations Research Articles

The Problems of Declustering in the Processing of Seismic Information in the Tauro Caucasus Region

ABSTRACT Accurate calculation of a declustered earthquake catalog is essential for adequately evaluating seismic hazards in a given territory. Different declustering methods for different seismotectonic conditions can give different results. In this article, we analyze the efficacy of several declustering algorithms in study seismicity in the Tauro Caucasus region and their influence on seismic hazard assessment. We examine approaches proposed by Gardner and Knopoff (1974), as well as different windowing techniques suggested by Uhrhammer (1986) and a modified version of Grünthal (1985). We also investigate declustering methods introduced by Reasenberg (1985) and Zaliapin and Ben-Zion (2013). The results indicate that, for the Tauro Caucasian region, the Gardner and Knopoff, Gruenthal window and Zaliapin and Ben-Zion methods provide more objective results. In the process of declustering, previously unknown phenomenal manifestations of seismicity have been uncovered.

The Influence of Vedanta on the Writings of Emerson: A Philosophical Inquiry

This article explores the insights of Vedanta in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Vedanta proclaims that the ultimate reality is within us. The Vedanta propounds for the philosophical explanations of the Vedas. The absolute reality that Vedanta projects as Brahman is essentially inward, and the entire phenomenal manifestations are just the reflection of that ultimate reality. Every phenomenal manifestation is the qualitative growth of the absolute one. The ultimate reality rules everything that exists in the material world. In this way, Vedanta believes in unity between God, man and nature. These essentials of Vedanta have their influences on Emerson’s writings. His essays and poems talk about this cosmic unity. His concepts of Over-Soul and the self-reliance remain as the metamorphosis of the philosophical insights of Vedanta. His poem “Brahma” exactly reflects the impacts of Vedanta because the poem views an individual in an eternal divine form. Therefore, Emerson proves to be an American rishi (sage) in Concord who accordingly elaborates and qualifies the Vedanta with new insights. This article is exploratory and interpretive. It tries to correlate the concepts, ideas and essence of the Vedanta in the writings of Emerson. This study, in this way, makes a philosophical inquiry of Emerson’s writing with the perspective of Vedanta.

Peirce’s Pragmatic Maxim as a Logical Consequence of Semiotic Idealism.

The purpose of this paper is to show that the pragmatic maxim can be construed as a logical consequence of semiotic idealism. Peirce proposed his semiotic idealism in the 1860s and based it on two premises: first, that we could know only symbols and, second, that the only things that exist are those that could be known. From these premises, he concluded that only symbols exist. This conception was meant to refute the distinction between the substance and its phenomenal manifestations. If semiotic idealism implies the pragmatic maxim, then it becomes clear why the pragmatic maxim says that the conception of the effects of the object is the conception of the object: it is because Peirce thought that the effects are the object. Furthermore, the close link between these conceptions may account for Peirce’s prolonged silence about pragmatism.

Understanding Culture through Knowledge Cybernetics

These days, countries around the world continue with their process of globalization in the digital business and marketing. However, they find themselves straddling different national cultures, which lead to problems of cross-cultural communication management resulting in, for instance, miscommunication and misunderstanding. Consequently, an understanding of the characterisation or mapping of culture is significant, and while there are not many theories of cultural mapping, most stem from the base work of Hofstede. Basically, most people begin with a categorisation of culture through the creation of an ontology that differentiates relatable levels of reality, as a theory of levels allows culture to be broken down into parts that can be analysed more easily. It also helps them to facilitate the creation of a set of generic or universal dimensions of culture which can be used to map different cultures. However, a problem with this theoretical approach is that it does not offer a very dynamic representation of culture, and it has manifestations that impoverish the way that phenomenal manifestations of culture can be explained. On the other hand, there is an alternative approach was adopted by Schwartz. This approach does not discuss ontology but it creates a value inventory in which respondents assess ‘comprehensive’ cultural values. Consequently, there is some relationship between outcome of Hofstede’s and Schwartz’s results. Yolles has developed a theory of Knowledge Cybernetics that delivers a new ontology and a dynamic modelling approach. Schwartz’s results have been merged into this, resulting in a new theory dynamic theory of culture quite distinct from Hofstede’s level theory.

Modernisation as an Organising Language for Higher Education in the South African Public Administration: Implications on Public Policy Interventions

The purpose of this article is to elucidate the notion of modernisation as an organising language for Higher Education in the South African polity landscape with a view of exposing its limitations on authentically addressing matters that are genuine to the society. That is done by outlining modernisation as an ontological premise and a reflection on how such is reigning as an organising language in Higher Education landscape with specific reference to Public Administration. The argument put forward is that in as much as modernisation remains the bases of the epistemological foundation of acquiring knowledge over the time, there are quite complex phenomenal manifestations that require the discourse to consider areas that are less navigated within Higher Education structuration. Such areas require a multiplicity or plural discourse engagement that is not necessarily confined within the modern science rational conception. That in it will eventually have implications on public policy interventions as the frameworks in use are informed by the epistemological foundations that are currently restricted within the rationality of modernisation. The paper is conceptual in nature and attempts to engage on the philosophical stand of knowledge generation within Higher Education landscape in South Africa specifically within the field of Public Administration and practice with the exposition of the complexities of the policy landscape within a defined polity. The conclusion therefore is that modernisation as an organising language for Higher Education does have limitations that need to be dealt with through considering ontological stances that can complement it in relation to African realities informed by the exogenous status of the continent. On that basis Africans will be moving towards the emancipation from the modernisation grip. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n10p451

Defining design and its phenomenal manifestations

There are a lot of definitions, interpretations and explanations of design and its phenomenal manifestations. Nevertheless, it is predominantly relegated to the category of art, which neglects its technical-technological, economical and social characteristics that arise from its interdisciplinary character. Since design has been actualised in almost 'all aspects of social activities - economic, industrial, political, social, cultural, psychological, scientific and philosophical' (Vukić), I will try, from the historical point of view, to shed light on the phenomenon of this creative activity and position it in contemporary theoretical practices; to point to misunderstandings, often even paradoxes, which occur when only creative-artistic content is considered, while its other features are neglected. I will thematize the issues about the domains that encompass design, together with its phenomenal manifestations, in order to show that it is indeed the creation that invites interdisciplinary contemplation.

FROM LUTHER'S THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS TO NIETZSCHE'S PROBING FOR THE ÜBERMENSCH: GROWTH IN THE MODERN RHETORIC OF SELF-DOUBTING INTIMIDATION

FROM LUTHER'S THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS TO NIETZSCHE'S PROBING FOR THE ÜBERMENSCH: GROWTH IN THE MODERN RHETORIC OF SELF-DOUBTING INTIMIDATION

On the theory of compound colours, and the relations of the colours of the spectrum

On the theory of compound colours, and the relations of the colours of the spectrum

Empiricism in Practice: Teleology, Economy, and Observation in Faraday's Physics

M /ICHAEL FARADAY is highly regarded for his major factual discoveries. He is also known for his imaginative visual representations of electric and magnetic phenomena as interacting systems of lines of force. During the 1840s he and others developed this visual language into a set of qualitative explanations that led to a new mathematical representation of electric, magnetic, and optical phenomena. Faraday thought that mathematical representations could and should stay close to their observational sources, which he believed to be the phenomenal manifestations of real agents and processes. This characterization of his achievements and his epistemology fits a traditional view of science, according to which metaphysics and theology are important determinants of scientific theorizing, but the production of observational evidence still plays a crucial role both as a stimulus to theory and as a constraint on it. Experimentation thus lays the empirical foundations on which the success of any theory ultimately depends. My account of Faraday's work on magnetism, although it qualifies this view of observation as source and foundation for theory, supports the traditional view that experimentation mediates between beliefs and experience. But the mediating role of experimentation requires a nonempiricist interpretation because of overwhelming objections to the traditional understanding of why a properly scientific theory must submit to observational constraints: an understanding based on the empiricist assumption that knowledge of an independent world can be given in sensory experience, or derived from it. Further, recent historical and sociological studies of science argue that empirical evidence is rarely (if ever) crucial to the acceptance or rejection of a theory. Instead, the role of experiment is normative rather than informative, the standards that a good experiment must meet are not self-evident but a matter of consensus, and controversies about whether particular experiments actually meet such standards are resolved by negotiation. In sum, the evidential relevance of fact to theory, the exactness of fit between data and theory, and the reality of facts and data are socially deter-

INSANITY AS RELATED TO CIVILIZATION.Read before the Section of Medical Jurisprudence, Washington Meeting American Medical Association, May, 1891.

Insanity may not be, as is so commonly and confidently asserted, a disease of civilization—but conditions essential to the phenomenal manifestations of insanity obtain so rarely among savages and lower animals, and so frequently among civilized people, that, in the absence of contradictory testimony, the assumption that it is so, would seem to be justified. The question then becomes pertinent and interesting: What constitutional modifications are effected by, or with, the process of civilization, whereby human beings are rendered more liable to become insane? Who shall answer? By common consent the medical profession is looked to for intelligent answers to all questions pertaining to insanity, and the insane. Is the profession qualified to so answer? Qualified or not, there are members of the profession ever ready to respond; the least qualified, often, being the readiest. Capability to talk volubly, or write voluminously, about insanity—or any other subject, for that matter—with