Locke's epistemology, or his means of supporting justified belief as opposed to conjecture, is very much based on the distinctions he makes as to what most defines elements of reality. As will be seen, all the components of Locke's thinking are inextricably related to one another, in that ideas and...

Description Earl (2001) states that, Knowledge Management (KM) is increasingly becoming important to managers, and it has been brought home through conferences and publications. Most companies have embraced effective handling of knowledge, and it is one of the significant factors that help counter competition among them. It should be noted...

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is introduced in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. God explicitly tells Adam and Eve not to eat from this tree, as Genesis 2:16-17 states, “The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat...

When considering the natural sciences, it is evident that the interaction of critical and creative thinking are important for generating knowledge, whilst in the arts it is less necessary for increasing understanding. The natural sciences involves the generation of knowledge through a combination of creative invention and the ability to...

Describing the philosophical foundations of the consumer of research and the trends and developments of social and behavioral science investigation concerns how empiricism relates to quantitative research methodology framed verifiable experience and/or observation rather use of pure logic or theory. The ideology of quantitative research looks to real world data...