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Showing 1 to 20 of 181 for “"Hilary."”.
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Staðreyndir og gildi : íslensk þýðing á kaflanum Fact and value í bókinni Reason, truth, and history eftir Hilary Putnam
… and value í bók bandaríska heimspekingsins Hilary Putnams Reason, truth, and history sem fyrst kom út árið 1981. Í kaflanum fjallar Putnam um tvíhyggju staðreynda og gilda sem hann telur að eigi sér djúpar rætur í vestrænni heimspekisögu og hafi enn mikil áhrif á hugsunarhátt …
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Declare I Dare Not
… novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel and Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession by Alison Weir. The novel chapters included are from Act III of Declare I Dare Not, focusing on the tumultuous ending of Anne Boleyn’s reign as Queen of England. After using witchcraft to seduce the …
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An Examination of the No Child Left Behind Act
… candidates, specifically, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton, on the Democrat side, and Mike Huckabee and John McCain, on the Republican. Conclusions drawn from this research project suggest the noble intentions of the NCLB legislation are challenging to apply in reality, that amendments to the …
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The dreamer awakes : semantic and metaphysical presuppositions in skepticism about knowledge of the external world
… have over our beliefs about our experience. For Hilary Putnam, the skeptic trades on presuppositions in the theory of reference. Drawing an alternative account of reference from Ludwig Wittgenstein's work, Putnam refutes a standard skeptical thought-experiment. Putnam focuses on the contemporary …
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Natural realism : the world and the mind according to Aquinas, Dretske, and Putnam
… the mind to be a capacity, not a substance, Hilary Putnam's criticisms of representationalism and what he calls "traditional realism" or "metaphysical realism," as well as his support for a turn in philosophy to what he calls "natural realism," are explored in relation to the accounts of …
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An Analytical and Educational Survey of Kenneth Hesketh's Vranjanka
… analytical and educational domains. Timothy and Hilary Reynish commissioned this piece in 2005 in memory of their son William. Tim Reynish is the former conductor of the Royal Northern College of Music's Wind Ensemble. He has also been deeply involved with the Commissioning Project of the Royal …
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On the epistemological significance of aesthetic values in architectural theory
… philosophers and literary theorists such as Hilary Putnam, Nelson Goodman and Satya P. Mohanty. These writers emphasize the rational and affective nature of our aesthetic experience and our aesthetic values and judgments, and propose a sophisticated account of objectivity by reexamining the …
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The Tension Between Falsificationism and Realism: a Critical Examination of a Problem in the Philosophy of Karl Popper
… realism. I examine three alternatives in detail: Hilary Putnam's internal realism, Richard Boyd's realism, and Ian Hacking's entity realism. Internal realism is shown to be an unsatisfactory solution because of its failure to incorporate a notion of approximate truth. Boyd's version of realism is …
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"""Lines of Spiritual Motion"": The Realization of American Catholic Fiction, 1845-1965"
… Orestes Brownson, Kathleen Norris, Dorothy Day, Hilary Leighton Barth, Harry Sylvester, and Flannery O’Connor—who provided a fertile ground for American Catholics to transition from a conflicted relation to dominant American culture to fuller participation in it, marked by the move from urban …
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Stone age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Western Cape
… use with reference to a hypothesis proposed by Hilary Deacon, framing the MSA within the context of earlier and later patterns of behaviour. Based on observations from sites across South Africa, Deacon described ESA landscape use as stenotopic, occupying a narrow ecological niche focused on …
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Implementation of a Fruit and Vegetable Voucher Program in San Francisco
… over 20% higher than the national average. Dr. Hilary Seligman, a national expert on food insecurity and an advocate for strategic upstream interventions to support healthy dietary intake and food security in low-income communities, launched EatSF in 2015. EatSF is a free fruit and vegetable …
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Carnap and the Ontology of Mathematics
… by, among others, Kurt Gödel, W. V. Quine, and Hilary Putnam. The most powerful challenge to Carnap's view, however, can actually be found in a less well-known paper by the logician E. W. Beth. The core of my thesis is thus a new interpretation of what I call Beth's argument from non-standard …
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Dissolving Borders: The Integration of Writing into a Movement Practice
… dance artists, Miranda Tufnell, Helen Poynor and Hilary Kneale. It engages with the central idea that a combined practice of creative writing and movement improvisation enhances the artist's articulation and assimilation of the experience of dance, consequently developing a deeper connection to …
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What is the Spirit Saying to the Churches? Toward a Contemporary Ecumenical Pneumatology
… within the teachings of Church Fathers such as Hilary of Poitiers, Cyril of Jerusalem, Basil of Caesarea and John Chrysostom. I also analyze 119 contemporary ecclesial statements produced by leaders within the Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian-Reformed, Baptist, Pentecostal and Roman …
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Demythologizing the sixties; reappraising the British groupie and her relationship to feminism, 1965-1974
… form of female liberation which corresponds with Hilary Radner’s neo-feminist paradigm (2011), and an imperfect form of resistance. This intervention disrupts established assumptions regarding the tangential role of women and girls in post-war male-dominated subcultures. This approach also …
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Photography and the Falklands Conflict : Homeric Heroism in Modern Warfare
… that have remained closed to others.<br/><br/>Hilary Roberts, Head of Photography Collections at the Imperial War Museum, has been very influential in this work and has given me more co-operation and trust than I could have hoped for. She has also allowed me more time to present this work than …
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Looking for Mary Webb: Part one - Creating a lost diary; Part two - A single violet: the lost diaries of Mary Webb
… references the work of Charles Palliser and Hilary Mantel, as well as Webb’s own coterie of biographers including Dr. Gladys Mary Coles and Dorothy Wrenn. The process of finding Webb’s writing voice is appraised alongside examination of the practicalities of writing nature in twenty-first …
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Polemic and episcopal authority in fourth-century Christianity
… of four bishops (Athanasius of Alexandria, Hilary of Poitiers, Lucifer of Cagliari and Epiphanius of Salamis), who are noted for their fierce opposition to heresy, and, in the case of the first three, their vehement attacks on the emperor Constantius II (337-361). These authors chose to draw …
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A practice of painting : living with the reception and generation of image on the visual threshold
… Johnson, A. G. (1993) pp.121-149); Closure, by Hilary Lawson (Lawson, H. 2001); and Francis Bacon: Sensation and Painting, by Giles Deleuze (Deleuze, G. 2003). This text begins with 15 reproductions of the paintings forming the exhibition, followed by a framing statement. The text then describes …
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