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Showing 1 to 20 of 381 for “"Paradigmatic"”.
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Paradigmatic Self-Deception
I present a theory of what I call "paradigmatic self-deception," the most serious and vivid cases of self-deception. While there has been much philosophical discussion of self-deception in recent decades, existing work does not explain how and why some cases of self-deception are more severe than …
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Paradigmatic Status and Reform Potential of Iowa Superintendents
The problem: Because it is difficult for the educational practitioner to ascertain the direction of educational reform, this study surveyed a sample of superintendents on their views, suggested by Thomas Kuhn's work on paradigms, on the classical schools of education, perennialism, essentialism, …
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Metaphors, Myths, and Archetypes: Equal Paradigmatic Functions in Human Cognition?
The overview of contributions to metaphor theory in Chapters 1 and 2, examined in reference to recent scholarship, suggests that the current theory of metaphor derives from long-standing traditions that regard metaphor as a crucial process of cognition. This overview calls to attention the …
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Some aspects of the paradigmatic analysis of old English word-formation
Tras realizar una revisión de las investigaciones previas centradas en la morfología y la lexicología del inglés antiguo, se ha constatado que han quedado pendientes de analizar ciertas cuestiones relacionadas con la formación de palabras. Por ello, este trabajo, tomando como referencia conceptos …
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THE LOAN OF A LOOKING GLASS: SHAKESPEARE, MYTH, AND PARADIGMATIC STRUCTURES
… on the texts by integrating associative, paradigmatic thought with logical, syntagmatic thought. By treating myth as psychosocial process, this analysis shows how Shakespeare both presents and deconstructs his culture's assumptions in the "play" of words, the "play" of one character's …
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Unification -Based Paradigmatic Morphology: A Theoretically -Motivated Approach to Computational Morphology
This approach has been implemented in Prolog, a language particularly suited for applications based on unification. The contribution of this thesis to the field of computational morphology is discussed and contrasted with other approaches such as the finite-state and the inheritance network …
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Paradigmatic mediation : globalization and banking policy reform in Malaysia and the Philippines
… to match its evolving external environment and paradigmatic pressures for statist-nationalist banking policy continuity. Prior to the mid-1980s, banking policy's external environment tolerated the Third World's statist-nationalist banking policy status quo, since the mid-1980s, this external …
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Paradigmatic mediation : globalization and banking policy reform in Malaysia and the Philippines
… to match its evolving external environment and paradigmatic pressures for statist-nationalist banking policy continuity. Prior to the mid-1980s, banking policy's external environment tolerated the Third World's statist-nationalist banking policy status quo, since the mid-1980s, this external …
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A Systems Thinking, Community-Based Exploration of Health Equity and Agency: Women’s Migraine as a Paradigmatic Case
… equity. I have selected women with migraine as a paradigmatic case for this exploration of health equity and agency.</p><p>Migraine is a common and debilitating neurobiological disorder without a cure (Goadsby, 2012). It affects almost three times as many women as men, and disproportionately …
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Towards the Enhancement of a Critical Cultural Paradigm in Health Communication: An Examination of the Impact of Paradigmatic Structures
<p>In the field of Communication there are a wide variety of ways in which scholars can utilize theories to serve as epistemological frameworks in order to examine sociological structures. In this thesis, the subfield of Health Communication will be examined through a positivistic and critical …
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN CONDITION THROUGH THE LENS OF NEURODEVELOPMENT DIVERSITY: INSIGHTS FROM A PARADIGMATIC REWIRING OF GENE REGULATION
Contemporary humans evolved unique cognitive and behavioural skills that are unprecedented in other human lineages. The recent availability of high-quality Neanderthals and Denisovans genomes has enabled the identification of human-derived genetic changes, yet their phenotypic consequences remain …
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‘Paradigmatic workers’: sociologies of gender, class and ethnicity in the labour experiences of Albanian and ethnic Greek Albanian women cleaners at two Greek public hospitals
This study is a sociological investigation exploring the working experiences of 24 women cleaners in two public hospitals in Athens, Greece. The participants are Albanian and ethnic Greek Albanian women. Focusing on the intersectionalities of gender, ethnicity, and class, this study illustrates how …
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A Study of the Effects of Direct Instruction in Paradimatic Language Responding on the Reading Skills of Fifth-Grade Students
… periods of daily direct instruction in paradigmatic language responding, will students who receive direct instruction in paradigmatic language responding score significantly greater in vocabulary achievement, reading comprehension achievement, paradigmatic language responding …
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The Concept of God and Sacred Music Style : an Intercultural Exploration of Divine Transcendence/Immanence as a Stylistic Determinant for Worship Music with Paradigmatic Implications for the Contemporary Christian Context
<p><em>Problems</em>. The conscious conservation of religious music style in most cultures contrasts with the stylistic pluralism of Western Christian worship music. This study addressed the problem of decision making within the diversity of music available for Christian worship.</p> <p><em>Purpose …
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EXPLANATORY GAPS ABOUND: A DEFENCE OF PHYSICALISM AGAINST ARGUMENTS FROM EPISTEMIC CONTRAST
… contrast, this explanatory gap is not found in paradigmatic reductive explanations. This special explanatory gap, which can be cashed out in terms of the lack of a priori entailment, is then thought to show that physicalism is false. Recently, however, Jonathan Schaffer has argued that there is …
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