Rare Punctuation Marks Before focusing on some rare punctuation marks, it is important to know that there are 14 commonly used punctuation marks in English grammar. They are the full stop, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, semicolon, colon, dash, hyphen, square brackets, brackets, curly brackets or braces, apostrophe, quotation marks, and ellipsis. However, the more interesting punctuation marks are the less commonly used ones. There are many excellent guides to punctuation marks, one of the best can be found of the Cambridge Dictionary site, I could not hope to improve on them here. However, I would much rather obsess over…
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Epistemology and Research
If you are wanting conduct epistemology research, please see my introduction to ontology. If, however, you are in the Social Sciences and your supervisor, colleague, co-author, reviewer or editor is suddenly wanting you to talk about epistemology or defend your epistemological position like some demented pseudo-philosopher who has just swallowed a dictionary: Welcome! What is Epistemology? It is the study the theory of knowledge. Don’t panic! take a breath and relax. It really is all very simple. However, before you explore epistemology, make sure you have your ontology nailed down! Your ontological position is central to your selection of…
Ontology and Research with Jeremy Bentham’s three kinds of entities
Ontology and Research If you are wanting conduct ontological research, may I wish you the best of luck and Godspeed, but this is not the page for you. If, however, you are in the Social Sciences and your supervisor, colleague, co-author, reviewer or editor is suddenly wanting you to talk about ontology or defend your ontological position like some demented pseudo-philosopher who has just swallowed a dictionary: Welcome! Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies of reality. Don’t panic! take a breath and relax. It really is all very simple. You are writing about something or researching…