Well today was really wasted, it was my first meeting with a member of the Plagiarism Police. It was never going to go well, as I had a pile of marking to do and no time to waste. Just as I was getting going, I hit a wall. It turns out one of my idiot undergrads had copied a chunk of one of my own articles and stuck it in the middle of their essay. Now, for me, the greatest surprise was not that they had done this, but that I had actually been paying close enough attention when marking…
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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…