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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"JUST IN CASE"”.
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The just-in-time philosophy and the accounting implications
This minor thesis looks at the accounting practices of the Just In Case philosophy and the changes JIT has brought to the traditional accounting. It further explains the JIT philosophy; human resource accounting and its implications; financial accounting and its implications; the pitfalls of …
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Moral Status
Chapters One through Three present the following view: (i) I explain moral status as follows: something has moral status just in case we have reasons not to cause harms to it simply in virtue of the badness of the harms for it. (ii) Moral status is not a matter of degree. (iii) A living thing has …
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What Does Value Matter? The Interest-Relational Theory of the Semantics and Metaphysics of Value
… by rationalists and moral realists as providing a desire-independent foundation for normativity. Those maintaining instead that normativity is dependent upon motivation often deny that anything called '""value"" or ""reasons"" exists. According to the interest-relational theory, something has …
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Models of propositional content
Propositions, in addition to being the things that sentences express relative to contexts of utterance, can be invoked to play a few theoretical roles: since a sentence seems to be true just in case it expresses a true proposition, propositions could be seen as the primary bearers of truth and …
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Action, intention and knowledge
… knowledge’; the knowledge we have of our own intentional actions. Part One introduces the target notion by describing three philosophically interesting features it appears to have (Ch. 1) and dismisses two broad approaches to understanding it – a ‘consciousness-based’ and an ‘inferentialist’ …
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Plural predication
My thesis consists of three self-contained but interconnected papers. In the first one, 'Word and Objects', I assume that it is possible to quantify over absolutely everything, and show that certain English sentences containing collective predicates resist paraphrase in first-order languages and …
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Understanding language
My dissertation concerns the nature of linguistic understanding. A standard view about linguistic understanding is that it is a propositional knowledge state. The following is an instance of this view: given a speaker S and an expression a that means M, S understand a just in case S knows that a …
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Conquests of the Common Ground: Mansplaining and Under-Presupposing
In ordinary conversations, a lot gets taken for granted. In order to communicate efficiently, speakers make presuppositions, leaving out information that they know or assume their interlocutor already accepts. Speakers try to match their presuppositions to their interlocutor's, so that they …
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Liberalism, self-determination, and secession.
… provides a systematic analysis of when an individual or group has a right to secede that is grounded in self-determination. Since the primary question in a secessionist conflict concerns the territory being contested, any analysis of the right to secede must provide an account of what …
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Acting from character : how virtue and vice explain praise and blame
… acts manifest virtue and blameworthy acts are incompatible with virtue. Despite its simplicity, proposals like mine have been largely ignored. After all, don't good people sometimes deserve blame, and bad people sometimes deserve praise? I believe the significance of this thought has been …
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An assessment of a quick response case study in an apparel textile pipeline in the Western Cape
… whether South African companies implementing Quick Response in an apparel textile pipeline moved towards flexible specialisation and post-Fordism or a neo-Fordist method of production. I also determined whether these companies implemented Quick Response according to the theory or to suit …
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Explication, similarity, and analogy: a defense and application of philosophical method
… of “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, W.V.O. Quine launched a series of arguments against the idea that analyticity – “truth in virtue of meaning alone” – could be a philosophically explanatory notion. While his rejection represents a significant philosophical stride in its own right, to which …
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Reducing Patient Supply Waste Through Nurse Education to Improve Quality of Patient Care in the Clinical Microsystem
<p>CNL Final Project Abstract</p> <p>With my CNL project, I sought to reduce patient supply waste in the clinical microsystem by 50% by the end of the second quarter of 2017. The project was conducted in a 19-single-room adult surgical/orthopedic unit in a community hospital. I completed a through …
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Home birth in the UK: a safe choice?
The safety of home as a place of birth in developed countries, and the extent to which pregnant women should have the right to choose a home birth, are highly contentious and emotive subjects which have been hotly debated for many years. Since 1993, Government policy in England and Wales has been …
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Three problems of folk psychology: meaning, character, and domain
… has been an object of great philosophical interest for the last 50 years, but it remains obscure in many fundamental respects. One finds little consensus on what folk psychology is, how it works, and who uses it and how. My dissertation aims to resolve some of this confusion by addressing …