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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Oddness"”.
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Measurements of edge uncolourability in cubic graphs
… graphs. These parameters include resistance, oddness and weak oddness, ow resistance, among others. In this thesis, we consider current ideas and problems regarding the uncolourability of cubic graphs, centering around these parameters. We introduce new ideas regarding the structural …
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The Odd Words in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
… peculiarities, compression of thought, oddness of vocabulary have, only in a general way, been pointed to as elements contributing to this so-called oddity and obscurity. The present study is an attempt to consider Hopkins' vocabulary as one of the possible sources of the alleged oddity …
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The Theme of Death in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
… and the lover of poetry should not allow surface oddness and obscurity to obstruct his view. I believe that if the reader is given grounds to realize the depth of thought in Hopkins’ poems, he will find them worth whatever their initial difficulty.</p> <p>In the following study, I propose to …
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Interactions with context
… sensitivity explains at least some of the oddness of 'systematic causal overdetermination,' and explains why some putative overgenerated causes are never felicitously counted, in conversation, as causes. But the principle also makes metaphysical theorizing about causation rather indirectly …
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Ignorance and grammar
… Some elephants are mammals and show how their oddness falls out from the Matrix K theory without further stipulations. Next, I argue that the theory extends to infelicitous Hurford disjunctions like Jean is from France or from Paris. Both phenomena can receive a uniform explanation in terms of …