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Showing 1 to 20 of 207 for “"Impossibility"”.
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La Nouvelle Heloise: Rousseau's Fiction and the Impossibility of Utopia
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Chaos Theory, Theology, and Curriculum: Striving Towards the Impossibility of the Gift
… the ability to give the true gift, which is an impossibility and is always to come, becomes meaningful. Curriculum studies allows for many wide ranging topics to be discussed and because of its wide ranging influence it is the avenue through which creating positive change in the world could …
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Nuclear Belief Systems and Individual Policy-Makers: Duncan Sandys, Unmanned Weaponry, and the Impossibility of Defence
This thesis attempts to explore the influence that Duncan Sandys' experiences of the Second World War had on his policy preferences, and policy-making, in relation to British defence policy during his years in government. This is a significant period in British nuclear policy which began with …
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The paradox of differentiation : Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory and the impossibility of unilateral control - the case of apartheid
… a theoretical framework to understand the impossibility of unilateral control. By using Luhmann's theory of differentiation, this paper will show how the unique evolution of the Apartheid subsystem led to the temporary success of its efforts at unilateral control. It will also be shown how …
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To Be Born IS to Die: A Study of Spatio-Temporal Impossibility and the Apocalypse in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
In the nearly 25 years since its first publication, critics have labeled Salman Rushdie's <italic>The Satanic Verses</italic> postmodern, postcolonial, modern, or any combination of the three (as well as religious, antireligious, and other terms on which I do not focus). I argue for an …
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In Color
… and content are hybrid in nature to reflect the impossibility of neat categorization, and the impossibility of cataloguing identity, which she has nonetheless attempted to do. In many ways, this collection is a failure. It could be no other way.</p>
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Letterkunde en die dood : onmoontlikheid en die moontlikhede van die teks
… largely dependent on the text's commitment to impossibility. The assumption that underpins this formulation is that death is the utmost possibility - the impossibility! - of any cognitive endeavour.
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Margaret Cavendish on Inconceivability
… in nature (i.e., inconceivability entails impossibility in nature). On the other hand, she writes that there are some things that exist or occur in nature that are inconceivable to humans (i.e., inconceivability does not entail impossibility in nature). Put simply, Cavendish seemingly …
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Searching for Healing Amidst the Genocidal Logic: Fragmentary Exiled Bosnian (Im)Possibilities
… of exiled Bosnians and a minimally threefold impossibility that they lived within—the impossibility of being Bosnian, the impossibility of Bosnia as a legitimate country, and the impossibility of full healing. Stemming from intertwining diachronic personal, familial, and more formal research …
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Social justice after Kant: Between constructivism and deconstruction (Rawls, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida)
… persons, Levinas and Derrida defend the impossibility of determining the content of justice. Rawls and Habermas subscribe to the art of the possible , rendering Kant s impartial standpoint by means of the original position (Rawls) or the procedures of discourse ethics (Habermas). By …
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A no-go theorem for derandomized parallel repetition
… results. Feige and Kilian (STOC'95) proved an impossibility result for randomnessefficient parallel repetition for two prover games with small degree, i.e., when each prover has only few possibilities for the question of the other prover. In recent years, there have been indications that …
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After Horses
… the risk of a lack of human connection, the impossibility of language, hope as illuminating and good thing, hope as desperate and devouring thing, and an underlying fear and awareness of the fact that no one can be sure of what ultimately matters, anyway.
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‘D’un usage de la donation en théologie’: the question of revelation through the prism of givenness in the phenomenological work of Jean-Luc Marion
… as such. And yet, is it not precisely from the impossibility for us of a revelation that a concept of revelation remains possible? As a phenomenal possibility, the phenomenon of revelation would, from the immanence of its appearing, operate a critique of the Kritik, as the phenomenon that breaks …
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Collective and Individual Rationality: Some Episodes in the History of Economic Thought
… prisoners' dilemma in game theory and Arrow's impossibility theorem in social choice theory sets the scene. The prisoners' dilemma epitomises the collective irrationality coordination problems lead to. The source of the dilemma is identified as the combination of interdependence in content and …
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Essays on Consent
… of Moral and Legal Rights from what I call the Impossibility Objection. The Impossibility Objection alleges that if the Will Theory is correct, then it is impossible for children, the unconscious, and the dead to have moral and legal rights. I formulate a version of the Will Theory, and use …
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Approximations for Economic Efficiency and Fairness
… etc. In this dissertation, we address this impossibility with methodology from the study of approximation algorithms. Through various cases in the field of computational economics, we demonstrate how to establish and improve the design of provably guaranteed approximations on an ideal yet …
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A core calculus for the analysis and implementation of biologically inspired languages
… on the expressive power of priority. Several impossibility results are described, which clearly state the superior expressiveness of prioritised languages and the problems arising in the attempt of providing their parallel implementation. To this aim, a new setting in distributed computing …
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