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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture... ... numerous courses in Finance Theory and International Trading. Certified E-Commerce Concepts Analyst by Brainbench. Certified in Psychological Couns... ... – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World in ...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...uate of numerous courses in Finance Theory and International Trading. Certified E-Commerce Concepts Analyst by Brainbench. Certified in Psychologic... ...tes in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("W...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...ses/Psychiatric_Disorders/Personality/ http://personalitydisorders.suite101.com/ Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture... ...anent. Genetic diseases can exist - unmanifested - for generations. This raises the philosophical problem or whether a potential disease IS a diseas... ... Moreover, the distinction between the psychic and the physical is hotly disputed, philosophically. The psychophysical problem is as intractable to... ...th. All the attempts to introduce "objective" yardsticks of health are plagued and philosophically contaminated by the insertion of values, prefere... ...llaries: treatment and research. VI. Mental Ailment as a Useful Metaphor Abstract concepts form the core of all branches of human knowledge. No on... ...(e.g., the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics) they invariably run into philosophical snags. Modern science uses metaphors (e.g., partic... ... debates. Science frequently deals matter-of-factly with theoretical entities and concepts - quarks and black holes spring to mind - that have nev... ...zed. The conscious is but the tip of an ever-increasing iceberg. He introduced the concepts of libido and Thanatos (the life and death forces), ins... ...t even concerned with finding out the "truth". Science is about providing us with concepts, explanations, and predictions (collectively known as "...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com ... ... be saved as a result and there is no other way to save their lives. Despite strong philosophical objections to some of the premises of utilitarian... ... which has the potential to develop into a person with consciousness and free will. Philosophically, no identity can be established between potentia... ...tion advances. Classifying an abortion as murder poses numerous and insurmountable philosophical problems. No one disputes the now common view tha... ...ted in aborting a pregnancy – is a crime against potentialities. If so, what is the philosophical difference between aborting a fetus and destroying... ... the philosophical side of Religion as well) and the convergence is precisely where concepts of order and disorder emerge. String theories, for inst... ...s do not eliminate vagueness - they only assign continuous values ("fuzzy sets") to concepts ("prototypes"). Open texture is when there may be "bor... ...lid, meanings. Borderline cases (and vagueness) arise at the "edge of chaos" - in concepts and predicates with co-evolving static and chaotic elem... ...lity, a model which is asymptotic to the Universe "as it is". It gives rise to the concepts of quality, emergence, function, derivation, influence ...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com ... ... be saved as a result and there is no other way to save their lives. Despite strong philosophical objections to some of the premises of utilitarian... ... which has the potential to develop into a person with consciousness and free will. Philosophically, no identity can be established between potentia... ...tion advances. Classifying an abortion as murder poses numerous and insurmountable philosophical problems. No one disputes the now common view tha... ...ted in aborting a pregnancy – is a crime against potentialities. If so, what is the philosophical difference between aborting a fetus and destroying... ... the philosophical side of Religion as well) and the convergence is precisely where concepts of order and disorder emerge. String theories, for inst... ...s do not eliminate vagueness - they only assign continuous values ("fuzzy sets") to concepts ("prototypes"). Open texture is when there may be "bor... ...lid, meanings. Borderline cases (and vagueness) arise at the "edge of chaos" - in concepts and predicates with co-evolving static and chaotic elem... ...lity, a model which is asymptotic to the Universe "as it is". It gives rise to the concepts of quality, emergence, function, derivation, influence ...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...ses/Psychiatric_Disorders/Personality/ http://personalitydisorders.suite101.com/ Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture... ...m grasp of what's true and what's not. Isolation of Affect Cognition (thoughts, concepts, ideas) is never divorced from emotion. Conflict can be... ... The good ones are internalised in order to support the inflated ("grandiose") self-concepts of the narcissist and his grandiose fantasies and to av... ...tic personality is especially vulnerable to regression to damaged or defective self-concepts on the occasions of loss of those who have functioned a... ...ation of gender-related cultural memes renders "masculinity" and "femininity" fluid concepts. One's sex equals one's bodily equipment, an objective... ...rcissist's sense of uniqueness. An interesting side issue relates to transsexuals. Philosophically, there is little difference between a narcissist... ...laries: treatment and research. VII. Mental Ailment as a Useful Metaphor Abstract concepts form the core of all branches of human knowledge. No on... ... – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World in ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...serve real people in real-life situations; - Literally visualize new-to-the- world concepts AND the customers who will use them; - Evaluate and re... ...ation technology. Both markets are founded on the manipulation of symbols and coded concepts. The dynamic of these markets is self-reinforcing. Fast... ...s. People switch jobs, renege on obligations, fail to repay debts, relocate often. Concepts like exclusivity, the sanctity of contracts, workplace ... ...ts are the same everywhere and are mostly rational. Practice begs to differ. Basic concepts such as the money value of time or the moral and legal ... ...in view of its mutilation, affected by the model. There are more serious problems, philosophical in nature. It is generally agreed that "changing"... ...nsive, out of context and with interpretation. There are no conceptual, mental, or philosophically rigorous distinctions today between information ... ...tive Justice of the Market"). Even ignoring the fuzzy logic behind the ill- defined philosophical term "utility" - rational economics has very littl... ...ent markets, hidden hands and so on) and behavioural economics is the result of two philosophical fallacies which, in turn, are based on the misappl... ... fallacies which, in turn, are based on the misapplication and misinterpretation of philosophical terms. The first fallacy is to assume that all fo...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...llaries: treatment and research. VI. Mental Ailment as a Useful Metaphor Abstract concepts form the core of all branches of human knowledge. No on... ... theory and even had to pass exams in the knowledge of "the only correct system of philosophical thought in existence". We were isolated from the r... ...et era of recovery will be complicated by the popular Russian understanding of the philosophical category of "Justice". He noted, that in liberal s... ...xistence - individual, social, cultural, moral, economic, political, military, and philosophical. At the end of the Cold War, Democratic Liberalis... ...ndable - nobody sane and responsible likes to support inflammatory and provocative concepts. I am trying to understand my enemy and, if possible, t... ...nterparts in the Islamic theocracies are not in the same privileged situation. The concepts of secularism and individual's rights, the greatest ach... ...numerous courses in Finance Theory and International Trading. Certified E-Commerce Concepts Analyst by Brainbench. Certified in Psychological Couns... ...– Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") - An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World in ...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...s. People switch jobs, renege on obligations, fail to repay debts, relocate often. Concepts like exclusivity, the sanctity of contracts, workplace ... ...ts are the same everywhere and are mostly rational. Practice begs to differ. Basic concepts such as the money value of time or the moral and legal ... ...in view of its mutilation, affected by the model. There are more serious problems, philosophical in nature. It is generally agreed that "changing" ... ...ame Theory refuses to acknowledge that real games are dynamic, not static. The very concepts of strategy, utility function and extensive (tree like)... ...numerous courses in Finance Theory and International Trading. Certified E-Commerce Concepts Analyst by Brainbench. Certified in Psychological Counse... ... ("Malignant Self Love") - An Open Directory Cool Site for 8 years. – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World in ...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... we, misleadingly, call "e-publishing". There are major operational and philosophical differences between physical and virtual libraries. The form... ...e. He serves on the Committee on Philosophy and Computers of the American Philosophical Association. He is on the board of governors of the Internati... ...itimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of... ...a Metaphor Three metaphors come to mind when considering the Internet "philosophically". The Internet as a Chaotic Library 1. The Problem of C... ...is not accessible to those who lack basic hardware and (Windows) software concepts. Alas, most of the population falls into the latter category. On... ... exporter of engineers, programmers, systems analysts, Web designers, and concepts analysts. Internet penetration in these countries - even in the ... ...ghts, contracts, intellectual property - are all new, often indigestible, concepts, emblems of Western hegemony and monopolistic practices. Widespre... ...ophers have been the legislators in later centuries (laws were founded on philosophical principles). Another question, that I will explore deeply in... ...t. In your analysis of the Prigogine-type social systems, you include one philosophically-dubious term: identity-preserving. Which identity? human r...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

... firm, where you have no ownership stake? This is not an ideological or a philosophical question. Ask the employees of the Pelagonija Construction G... ... pressures begin to exert themselves. This is closely linked to the other concepts, those of "structural", "frictional" and "conjectural or cyclical... ...rkers" (those who despaired and stopped looking for work). A second, more philosophical issue, is that, as opposed to frictional unemployment, which... ...courses in Finance Theory and International Trading. Certified E-Commerce Concepts Analyst by Brainbench. Certified in Psychological Counselling Tec... ...ogy ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World in Conflict a...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...xistence - individual, social, cultural, moral, economic, political, military, and philosophical. At the end of the Cold War, Democratic Liberalis... ...racy" - with all the trappings of one but without its constitutional substance and philosophical foundations. The United States is: ''increasingly ... ...us, ideology has a realistic attribute - and a dimension of representations (myths, concepts, ideas, images). There is harsh, conflicting reality - ... ... numerous courses in Finance Theory and International Trading. Certified E-Commerce Concepts Analyst by Brainbench. Certified in Psychological Couns... ... – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World in ...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...ess" and its corollaries: treatment and research. Mental Ailment as a Useful Metaphor Abstract concepts form the core of all branches of human kno... ...n Dis-ease": "Moreover, the distinction between the psychic and the physical is hotly disputed, philosophically. The psychophysical problem is as i... ... Graduate of numerous courses in Finance Theory and International Trading. Certified E-Commerce Concepts Analyst by Brainbench. Certified in Psycho... ...eb sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitic...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...s courses in Finance Theory and International Trading. Certified E-Commerce Concepts Analyst by Brainbench. Certified in Psychological Counselling T... ...gnant Self Love") - An Open Directory Cool Site for 8 years. – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World in Conflict ...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...s courses in Finance Theory and International Trading. Certified E-Commerce Concepts Analyst by Brainbench. Certified in Psychological Counselling T... ...gnant Self Love") - An Open Directory Cool Site for 8 years. – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World in Conflict ...

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