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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Maxim"”.
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Berkeley on the Source of Self-Knowledge: Introspection and Causal Maxim
… an inference which integrates a crucial causal maxim. Further, I argue that Berkeley thought the causal maxim which grounds his argument for the existence of the self is itself grounded in experience. Berkeley’s early position on self-knowledge interestingly anticipates Hume’s criticism of the …
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Wicing Sceal on Waelstowe: The Viking Maxim in The Battle of Maldon
… of the battlefield, as if they had their own maxim pairing and were acting according to expectation. By defining how maxims function in the Old English corpus, illustrating the prevalence of Viking violence leading up to the battle, and presenting literary evidence of a Viking maxim in Maldon …
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Rassismus und Geschichte in dem Familienroman Haltet euer Herz bereit von Maxim Leo
… des Familienromans Haltet euer Herz bereit von Maxim Leo. Im ersten Teil der Arbeit werden bedeutende historische Ereignisse – vom Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs über die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus bis hin zur Teilung Deutschlands und dem Kalten Krieg – dargestellt, wobei besonderes Augenmerk auf …
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The incommensurability of the archaic perceptions of the maxim res ipsa loquitur in medical negligence litigation
This thesis assesses the legal doctrine res ipsa loquitur ('the thing speaks for itself) in the context of delictual claims for compensation for medical negligence in South African law. The thesis accepts that the doctrine is defensible in principle: a civil court may justifiably draw an inference …
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Some Constraints of Consideration on Conversation: Interactions of Politeness and Relevance With Grice's Second Maxim of Quantity
… of language Paul Grice establishes four maxims speakers follow in conversing: maxims of quantity, quality, relation, and manner. The maxim of quantity he divides into two parts, saying that conversational participants must give enough information to each other, but must not give too much. …
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The interplay of pragmatic inference, face and emotion
… which they presumably operate according to the Maxims postulated by Grice (1975). The empirical phenomena that this thesis takes as a starting point are mock impoliteness, banter and teasing. The literature reveals a rather complicated picture of what speakers intend and how hearers respond when …
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The moral of the story Is... extract a generalizable lesson from a fable through emotional explanation and alignment with a past experience
… a step toward fulfilling my vision by building MAXIM, a new module in the Genesis Story Understanding System. From a fable and a description of a past experience written in English, MAXIM extracts and generalizes the moral of the fable and explains it in English. For example, from Rudolph the …
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Scientific evidence to support the art of prescribing spectacles. Identification of the clinical scenarios in which optometrists apply partial prescribing techniques and the quantification of spectacle adaption problems.
Although experiential prescribing maxims are quoted in some optometric textbooks their content varies significantly and no direct research evidence was available to support their use. Accordingly in chapters 2 and 3, the uses of several potential prescribing rules were investigated in the UK …
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Online Anonymity and the Kantian Publicity Principle: Can the Internet Solve the Paradox of Tyranny?
Immanuel Kant’s publicity maxim states that other-regarding actions are wrong if their maxim is not compatible with their being made public. This has the effect of forbidding dissent or rebellion against tyranny, since rebels cannot make their intentions and plans public. However, new internet …
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Verbal irony as conversational implicature
… This is done by 1)an addition to Grice's Maxim of Quality so that this maxim will be able to take presupposition into account; 2)an inclusion of the notion of mutual knowledge in Grice's framework and 3)an establishment of speakers' motivation for violating Grice's Maxims. This motivation …
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Applications of legal maxims in Islamic criminal law with speciual reference to Shariah law in northern Nigeria (1999 - 2007)
The Subject of Islamic legal maxims is one of the sciences in Islamic jurisprudence which aphoristically subsumes all the spectrums that purpose of Sharl`ah is all about. There are six basic Islamic legal maxims agreed upon among the Islamic scholars on which the tenet of Islamic law is based. Each …
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Conversational Implicature in Children's Referential Communication
… the Cooperative Principle (CP) and its maxims of Quality, Quantity, Relation, and Manner. That children's referential communication deviates from the CP is very well-documented: the Quantity Maxim, which requires speakers to give as much information as the listener needs but not more, …
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Situations, incentives and reasons. Kant on rational agency and moral motivation
… of action (the possession of and action upon maxims; the subjection of maxims to moral assessment through the Categorical Imperative's universalisability test; our supposedly perennial consciousness of the moral law; and so on) seem not to square at all with our lived experience of agency. The …
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The impact of intervention strategies in addressing bullying among secondary schools students in Motupa Circuit
… to analyse data from the questionnaire using the maxim for statistical significance. Findings from the empirical study were discussed. The implication is that intervention and preventive strategies need to be based on personal and contextual factors, in order to effect change.
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Observations and Light Curve Analysis of Transiting Extra-Solar Planets
… in order to refine the detection process. Both Maxim DL and Mira Pro x64 software were used to process the resulting images. The PHOEBE program was used to model the data to determine the properties of the exoplanets, which were then compared to the results obtained by other astronomers. The …
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A Photometric Study of the Eclipsing Binary V574 Lyrae
… Sloan g', r', and i' filters and processed using Maxim DL and Mira Pro x64 image processing software. The resulting light curves were used with the Wilson-Devinney program to successfully determine the physical parameters of the system and model the stars.</p>
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Minding Our Manners: Investigating The Nature Of Gricean Manner Implicature Using Psychological Priming Techniques
… is bridged using a set of conversational maxims that can be exploited to trigger conversational implicatures. This thesis investigates the nature of Gricean Manner Implicature (MI) and its relationship with other types of conversational implicature, specifically ad-hoc and adjectival …
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Vibration Energy Harvesting IC Design with Incorporation of Two Maximum Power Point Tracking Methods
… stage. The power stage is controlled with a new maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm, which integrates both fraction open circuit voltage (FOCV) and perturb and observe (PandO). The proposed algorithm was able to extract maximum power from a transducer due to high accuracy on the maxim …
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The New Man And The New Lad: Hegemonic Masculinities In Men's Lifestyle Magazines
… women were examined. The findings indicate that Maxim and Stuff were deluged with displays of certitude of gender roles, irony, "new sexism" and double voicing. Playboy had a high level of gender certitude, marginal levels of new sexism and irony and low levels of double voicing. Lastly, GQ had …
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FINITE ELEMENT METHODS AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR SOME MULTI-PHASE PROBLEMS
… listed below in my dissertation. Olshanskii, Maxim, Quaini, Annalisa and Sun, Qi. ”An unfitted finite element method for two-phase Stokes problems with slip between phases”, Journal of Scientific Computing, V. 89 (2021), Article 41; Olshanskii, Maxim, Quaini, Annalisa and Sun, Qi. ”A Finite …
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