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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Maxims"”.
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Maxims and Portraits in Balzac 'Comedie Humaine': His Debt to the 17th-Century Moralistes
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The City Coding Project : an investigation into some presumed maxims for residential design in Hong Kong
Formal expressions of architecture in a city are largely dictated by how the city is 'coded' ... re-coding - is capable of making fundamental changes in building forms that would proliferate across the entire city. Therefore, the City Coding Project consists of two primary components: * Through the …
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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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Moral Reasons Arbitrariness
… but she advances two inconsistent accounts of maxims: identity-priority maxims and form-priority maxims. But identity-priority maxims hinge on identities that are not themselves chosen for reasons, while form-priority maxims have a form incapable of constraining moral willing apart from a …
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Assertibility and coordination: Analysing `and' and/or `or', some `some', but not so much `but', `not', `so', or `nor', nor `much'
… restrictions that model some Grice-inspired maxims, can go towards describing the multiple distinct uses of the English natural language connectives `and' and `or'. H.P. Grice famously claimed that `and' and `if' could be completely reduced to the truth-functional connectives `^' and ` ' plus …
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Mantra: a chamber opera
… intones or sings the sparse, esoteric text. The maxims that the Chorus presents are broad, fundamental principles, while the poetry that the Priestess ponders represents an attempt to interpret and understand those maxims.
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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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Verbal irony as conversational implicature
… of speakers' motivation for violating Grice's Maxims. This motivation is subsumed into three principles--the Politeness Principle (PP) (following previous writers such as R. Lakoff, Brown and Levinson), which embodies the speaker's need and want to be polite to others, the Selfishness Principle …
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Pulling the plug - An Islamic Perspective of the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment
… maqāṣid (Goals of Shari’a) and qawāid (juristic maxims) approach. The findings of this study have helped synthesise an Islamic approach and perspective on WLST that can help improve clinical effectiveness, enhance the patient experience and does not compromise the safety, values and beliefs of …
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Interpreting the Culture of Ubuntu: The Contribution of a Representative Indigenous African Ethics to Global Bioethics
… relatedness to humanity is summarized by the two maxims of Ubuntu. The first is: a human being is human because of other human beings. The second maxim is an elaboration of the first. It goes; a human being is human because of the otherness of other human beings. John Mbiti combines those two …
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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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An application of optimal control theory in welfare economics
… in autarky and the implications of different maxims of distributive justice in a command economy.
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Internet users' responses to ai through the prism of politeness /
… communication, politeness, Politeness Maxims, collect two computer-mediated data samples (comments by English and Lithuanian-speaking Internet users regarding AI), to establish the correlation between the polite and impolite patterns in the data samples, and to compare the distribution …
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Thinking about Acting: The use of causal knowledge for the sake of intentional action in Heraclitus, Hippocratic On Regimen and Democritus
… ethical principles expressed through guiding maxims for ethical decision-making. Agents must grasp the underlying fundamental ethical principles within these maxims to effectively apply them to their own circumstances. Failure to do so results in blindness towards the right information …
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Wicing Sceal on Waelstowe: The Viking Maxim in The Battle of Maldon
… 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 and The Battle of Brunanburh, I will define what I believe to be the …
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Curriculum Deliberation by Experienced EFL Teachers (A Case Study in the Indonesian College EFL Context)
… education and professional training), teaching maxims (originating in practical experiences), and teaching norms (originating in moral and ethical reasoning) were all represented in the participants’ data. In particular, the expression and use of teachers’ knowledge in the form of teaching …
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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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Flowers for the Book-binder's Wife: An Investigation of Florilegia and Early Modern Women's Writing
… and advice. By their chronic recycling of such maxims, Renaissance writers reinforced the prominence of literary imitation rather than encouraging originality. Thus, when early modern authors employed the childbirth metaphor to describe authorship, painting themselves as mothers and their …
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