June, 2011
The mind as a ‘tabula rasa’
This piece of writing was part of a set of short answer questions and is therefore quite short and doesn’t go too deep into the content. John Locke believed that the elements of thought and understanding all derive from perceptual experience, through sense perception and mental reflection. Ideas and representations of the world are imprinted [...]
Descartes – The mind is better known than the body
This piece of writing was part of a set of short answer questions and is therefore quite short and doesn’t go too deep into the content. Descartes thought that the mind is better known than the body for several reasons. He believed that we know things more clearly through mental understanding than through sense perception. [...]
Aristotle – Actuality precedes potentiality
This piece of writing was part of a set of short answer questions and is therefore quite short and doesn’t go too deep into the content. Aristotle believed that “actuality precedes potentiality” for a number of reasons. Aristotle argued that actuality comes before potentiality in time, because an actual substance is able to produce something, [...]
Pythagoras on music
This piece of writing was part of a set of short answer questions and is therefore quite short and doesn’t go too deep into the content. In his study of music, Pythagoras realised that there was a direct correlation between the length of a string in a musical instrument, and the octave that was produced [...]
MySource Matrix – Content Types
This weeks tip is all about divs – specifically, the different content types available, and some helpful things that you can do with them. On a standard page you will have seen that the content is broken up into one or more text areas (divs), we separate the content into multiple divs for different reasons: [...]
MySource Matrix – Asset Listings for Dummies
Asset Listings are one of the core assets in Matrix – I would even go so far to say they are the most important asset, aside from a Standard Page. For those of you who have never heard of or used an asset listing – An Asset Listing page loops through a section of the [...]
MySource Matrix – Impressions
MySource Matrix, the Open Source Content Management System developed by Australian company Squiz, has been released for some time now. This begs the question – can it keep up with newer offering such as those from Joomla, Drupal and WordPress? One of the defining qualities of Matrix when compared to many other CMS’s is that [...]
Pre-socratic views and their foresight into modern science
The Ionian’s and Pythagorean’s were the first humans to attempt to answer the questions about the workings of the universe in scientific and philosophical explanations rather than mystical and religious stories. Their explanations, whilst out dated in many ways compared to modern understandings, gave extensive foresight into modern definitions of scientific knowledge. It is evident [...]
Dualism vs. Physicalism
It was in the seventeenth century that a philosophical distinction was made between the mind and the physical body. This distinction was brought to light through the ideas of René Descartes, with his identification of the mind/body problem – the view that mental processes are substantially different to the physical world (the body), and cannot [...]