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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Falsity"”.
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Marketing channels and transaction cost analysis: the role of transaction specific investment
… to the amount of opportunism (operationalized as falsity) prevalent in the negotiation process. Also, it was hypothesized that after the contract was formed, the resultant investment in transaction specific assets was inversely related to opportunism (operationalized as a reduction in contract …
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Religion as a factor in the defeat of Alfred E. Smith in the election of 1928
… this essay will be to determine the veracity or falsity of this interpretation of the cause of Smith’s defeat in the election of 1928, in the hope that a careful representation of the past will enable us to understand the living present and to predict the uncertain future.</p>
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Body Double: Mythmaking and Identity in a Virtual Countryside
… outward. In this context, there is no truth or falsity, only indeterminacy. This poses challenges for the discipline of architecture, long considered a cultural practice, as the internet and its infrastructures blur distinctions between place, time, and identity. The goal of this work is …
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Fighting Words: Slurs, Semantics, and the Law
… argues that this view is mistaken, and that its falsity has important implications for hate speech jurisprudence. I argue that, to grasp what makes slurs such potent verbal weapons, we ought conceive of them not only as tools for expression, but also as tools for a sadly neglected use of language …
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The nature, value and paradoxes of pleasure
… in showing Prudential Hedonism’s falsity has been re-considered. This sea-change is thanks mainly to insights descending from an experimental method. The most recent attempt to revive the experience machine objection to Prudential Hedonism, the Experientially Identical Lifetime …
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A Possible and Necessary Consistency Proof
… giving a reduction procedure for derivations of falsity. In contrast to Gentzen's proof, the procedure contains a vector assignment. The reduction reduces the first component of the vector and this component can be interpreted as an ordinal less than epsilon_0, thus ordering the derivations by …
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Models of propositional content
… be seen as the primary bearers of truth and falsity; since sentences can be said to be necessarily or possibly true in virtue of expressing necessarily or possibly true propositions, propositions could be seen as being the primary bearers of modal properties; since it is possible to know what …
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Language and scientific explanation: where does semantics fit in?
… Moreover, externalists insist that the truth or falsity of the meanings of our words must be an integral and explanatory part of a theory of semantics. In what follows I will examine the heated debate between externalists and Chomskyan internalists in regard to the correct way to construct a …
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Derrida and a Theory of Irony: Parabasis and Parataxis
… texts, while recognising and playing with the falsity of such generic makers or divisions. Inscribing Derrida within a tradition of thinkers of the non-thetic both extends readings of that tradition and of irony itself, while affording a valuable way of approaching the “structures” within …
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Mapping Caribbean Histories: Glissant, Walcott, and the Counter-Poetics of Modernity
… helps show) that in addressing this violent falsity we not only replace the proper subject of modernity into narratives of history, but that we also begin to think anew the very philosophical (conceptual) meaning of history itself. Furthermore, rather than seeing modernity (its histories and …
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ANTIREALISM AND TIME: AN ESSAY IN METHOD AND METAPHYSICS
… that we should reject the notion of truth and falsity in metaphysics, and instead opt for metaphysical theories that capture the understanding of each philosopher provided that such theories have explanatory power and are internally consistent. Then, the way to choose between several candidate …
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A Constant Struggle: Renegotiating Identity in the Aftermath of Rape
… equals aggression and proclaiming the falsity of the notion that men are genetically programmed to dominate. Despite this, stereotypes remain. In part because of this, feminist researchers and theorists who address the topic of rape have been preoccupied with increasing public education …
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How Should Religious Fraud and Religious Undue Influence be Regulated by English Courts?
… even if juries are prohibited from testing the falsity of religious beliefs by the jurisprudence on Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The second objective of this thesis is to illustrate the problems with how courts determine when religious influence, an inevitable part of …
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Subjectivity And Politics In Pasolini's Bourgeois Tragic Theater
… and martyrdom, the latter of which will be a falsity and no politics at all. However, Orgia and Porcile in its drafts formulate a more critical radical subjectivity and politics: the transformation of self-destructive otherness into the “Logic of Otherness,” which looks to reconstruct …
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Space and character dynamics in selected African dramatic texts
… could delve into issues of Space and character falsity in drama: can characters present fake identities and why? Others can explore space and character portrayal in poetry, while others could also look at use of ‘Space’ in the vernacular narratives or drama in comparison to English texts.
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Space and character dynamics in selected African dramatic texts
… could delve into issues of Space and character falsity in drama: can characters present fake identities and why? Others can explore space and character portrayal in poetry, while others could also look at use of ‘Space’ in the vernacular narratives or drama in comparison to English texts.
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Emergence and experience: systemic emergence and the prospects for a mechanistic explanation of the existence of experience
… of thinkers have argued that this entails the falsity of the materialism in all its forms. In addressing this concern, I argue that there are in fact two problems associated with consciousness: there is the problem of accounting for the existence of experience in general, and there is the …
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About the relation between implicit Theory of Mind & the comprehension of complement sentences
… without giving any information about the truth/ falsity of the belief (Exp. 2). Afterwards, their expectations about the protagonist’s future behavior were measured. Overall, implicit measures reveal no considerably earlier understanding of sentential complementation. Whereas 3-year-olds did not …
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Concepts of law of nature
… causes, etc. Insofar as the truth or falsity of reductionism about laws has implications for many of the problems mentioned above, I think that this result should be of interest even to those who who do not work in metaphysics or the philosophy of science. My methodology, which I lay …
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