Category: Philosophy

Why did Germany want Alsace-Lorraine? Well, initially Germany mainly wanted Alsace-Lorraine to act as a buffer zone in the event of any future wars with France. The area contains the Vosges Mountains, which would be much more defensible than the Rhine River if the French ever attempted to invade.১৯ মার্চ, ২০১৮ What does Lorraine mean? […]

What happened to Harry in Requiem for a Dream? Harry gets his arm amputated. Sara undergoes electroshock therapy. And Marion participates in a humiliating group sex act for money. It doesn’t seem that bad when we type it out like that. How long is Requiem for a Dream? 1h 50m What drugs are they doing […]

What is tangential response? tangential response. acknowledging a person’s message but immediately taking the conversation in a different direction. Impersonal response. When a person give a monologue (talking at length about one’s own concerns rather than participating in conversational give-and-take) Incoherent response. What is a tangential response? tangential response. acknowledging a person’s message but immediately […]

Why did scholars choose the term Postformal to describe the fifth stage of cognition? Why did scholars choose the term “postformal” to describe the fifth stage of cognition? Postformal thought goes beyond adolescent thinking by being more practical, flexible, and dialectical. Why does the term broken home indicate a lack of dialectical thought? Why does […]

How do you ask an indirect question? To make an indirect ‘yes / no’ question, we use ‘if’ and the word order of a normal positive sentence. This is the same as for reported ‘yes / no’ questions. On the other hand, we don’t usually need to ‘backshift’ (change the tense of the verb) as […]

What is a ∆ B in sets? The symmetric difference of two sets A and B is the set (A – B) ∪ (B – A) and is denoted by A △ B. A △ B is the set of all those elements which belongs either to A or to B but not to both. […]

Is a crime as well as tort? There are many wrongs which are covered under both civil and criminal wrongs like nuisance or fraud which are wrong under both torts and is a crime under criminal law. Similar is the case of Torts law, there are many wrongs which require an intention to be proved […]

Is capital not an asset? Capital provided by investors is a source that funds your company’s assets, as such it is a form of balance sheet liability although it differs greatly from other instruments such as debt. Note that from an accounting perspective capital is not a liability but simply equity. What are the types […]

Is vertical up and down? Vertical describes something that rises straight up from a horizontal line or plane. The terms vertical and horizontal often describe directions: a vertical line goes up and down, and a horizontal line goes across. You can remember which direction is vertical by the letter, “v,” which points down. What does […]

Does not exist in one word? nonexistent; missing; that does not exist. Does the limit exist? In order for a limit to exist, the function has to approach a particular value. In the case shown above, the arrows on the function indicate that the the function becomes infinitely large. Since the function doesn’t approach a […]