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Showing 1 to 20 of 315 for “"Knows"”.
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No One Really Knows You
<p>This is a collection of five short stories that I have written during my time in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. The stories were written, revised, and workshopped in graduate classes over the last two years.</p>
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Who knows what? : perspective-enabled story understanding
Stories are essential to human communication, thus understanding stories is critical to modeling human intelligence. In order to understand a story from multiple characters' perspectives, a reader must form mental models representing each character's knowledge and beliefs. Building on the Genesis …
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A defense of the ambiguity theory of 'knows'
… knowledge ascriptions (sentences of the form ‘S knows that P’ where S is a subject and P a proposition) and knowledge denials (sentences of the form ‘S doesn’t know that P’) have been at the fore of a certain sector of analytic epistemology and philosophy of language. These questions include “How …
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Who knows where : a treatise on indisciplinary thinking
The production of knowledge has been immensely tied to the production of space in both language and application. Through the use of metaphors and metonymy coupled with spatial strategies of exclusion and delimitation, knowledge has been ramified into disciplines and fields whose continuous …
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She Knows Truth: Toward a Redemptive Model of Women's Epistemological Development
Gilligan, Perry, Belenky et al., and Baxter Magolda have spoken the loudest on epistemological development in past decades with numerous follow-up studies that sought to confirm and add to their ideas. Christian higher education has generally accepted or sought to integrate these models which …
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The head knows what lies near the heart : an anatomy in stories and accompanying essay
… of a collection of short stories titled The Head Knows What Lies Near the Heart and an accompanying critical commentary. These tales look to question the ways women relate to their body through examining and emulating certain aspects of traditional fairy tales. While previous feminist examinations …
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Who knows what's best for the poor? : demand-driven policies and rural poverty in northeast Brazil
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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“I’m the only one that knows what I can and can’t do.”: Shaping identities through disability accommodation discussions
This research project sought to understand experiences people with disabilities have when disclosing disability in the workplace for accommodations and how those experiences influenced identity formation. Utilizing a feminist disability theory framework, this project involved using semi-structured …
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“No-one knows what happens.” Enriching our understanding of the resilience of young people in a Pupil Referral Unit.
This study presents an in-depth, idiographic, phenomenological exploration of the experiences, views and perceptions of four young people in a Pupil Referral Unit, in relation to ecological factors of resilience. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and the resultant transcripts subjected to …
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All This the World Well Knows: a symphonic cantata in Sonnets and Proverbs for mixed chorus, four solo voices, and orchestra
All This the World Well Knows is a 30-minute symphonic cantata for mixed chorus, four solo voices (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and baritone), and orchestra. The libretto, adapted by the composer, weaves together texts from Shakespeare's Dark Lady sonnets and from the King James Bible's book of …
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A rural firestation
… is permanent and that which is not. That which knows the earth and that which knows the sky. That which makes us question and that which does not.
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Understanding language
… a that means M, S understand a just in case S knows that a means M. I refer to this as the epistemic view of linguistic understanding. The epistemic view would appear to be a mere conceptual truth about linguistic understanding, since it is entailed by the following two claims that themselves …
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Importance of nurse caring behaviors as perceived by patients after myocardial infarction: A replication study
… and Harrison's study (1988), with items as "knows how to handle equipment", "check my condition closely", and "knows how to give shots, IV's, etc." as most important nurse caring behaviors. "Talk to me about my life outside the hospital" and "visit me if I move to another hospital unit" were …
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The Pricing Strategy of a Bayesian Learning Monopolistic Insurer
… contracts when compared to the insurer who knows a consumer's level of risk aversion. By offering different contracts than the insurer who knows a consumer's level of risk aversion, the insurer who learns earns less expected profit than the insurer who knows a consumer's level of risk …
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Epistemic levels
… the KK principle-the principle that if one knows that P, then one knows that one knows that P. I argue that saying plausible things about higher-order interpersonal knowledge requires rejecting some popular arguments against KK, and that many apparent counterexamples to KK can be explained …
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Between forever and never : the photograph as a bridge between past and present; memory and it's fiction, 1981-2009
… image that seem to depict parts of the mother he knows. He concludes that by being partially true, the total representation in each image is false. He suggests that the physical details and direct documentations of his mother's physical self, do not contain the sense of her, as he knows her.
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On the interpretation of concealed questions
… (CQs), embedded questions in sentences like John knows the time (i.e., John knows what time it is). The fact that know and wonder differ in their ability to embed CQs partially motivated the hypothesis (Grimshaw 1979) that verbs select the possible syntactic categories of their complements …
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Why Mike the Tiger is the Best Mascot Ever
… no reason for this disseration because the world knows that there are no other mascots better than Mike the Tiger at LSU! Case Closed!</p>
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