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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Truth Value"”.
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The continuum hypothesis : independence and truth-value
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Philosophy, 1974.
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Memory and Comprehension of Truth-Value Information S-Complement Sentences
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Evaluating the implementation efficacy of an ecosystem approach to fisheries in the South African anchovy fishery
… the hierarchy. The overall resulting output, the truth value, was then used to assess how well the ecological dimension of the anchovy fishery had been doing over time. This showed the implementation efficacy of an EAF within the ecological dimension had been doing badly in 1987-1996, and since …
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The Effects of Attitudes Towards Homosexuality on the Ability to Reason Logically About Homosexuality
… while controlling for distortions caused by the truth or falseness of conclusions on nonhomosexual matters (also measured by 32 items). McFarlands' (2000) abbreviated version of the Attitudes Towards Homosexuality Scale (ATH Scale) was administered to directly measure participants' attitudes. The …
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Incarnation : Hindu and Christian thought
… of coming to the conclusion that there is less truth and more truth in different religious faiths. The most important consideration will be the truth value. In the incarnation stories, man is restored by God’s creative act to his original state.
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The effect of linguistic focus manipulation on truth judgements /
… linguistic focus manipulation and subsequent truth judgements, taking into account processing fluency, which is known to be a prominent inference of truth judgements. To test this, an online survey was conducted, where 68 participants rated the perceived truth value of presented true and false …
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An Argument For A Neutral Free Logic
… containing non-referring terms do not have truth value. The primary support for this conclusion comes by way of criticism of the alternatives. If every sentence of the form `a = a' is a logical truth and is consequently knowable a priori then it will follow absurdly that `a exists' is …
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Is Superman a Sense or a Superhero?
… that such substitutions do not change the truth value of a sentence, Saul's puzzle suggests otherwise. My paper explains Saul's proposed solution based on conversational implicatures and argues against it. Then I introduce a different solution called the Shifty-Fregean solution, which …
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Binding Interpretations in Adult Bilingualism: A Study of Language Transfer in L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers of Korean
… Two experiments were conducted --- one with Truth Value Judgment with stories, which tests core binding properties such as size of Governing Category (Manzini and Wexler 1987) and Sub-command (Tang 1989), and the other with Grammaticality Judgment Task coupled with Preferential Sentence …
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Eventuality-based interval semantics and Free Logic: what if there, like, is no future, man?
… presupposition—namely, that propositions lack truth-value when other propositions that they presuppose are false. This paper explores the plausibility of such an answer, beginning with a brief discussion of the problem of future contingent propositions and presupposition. From there, an …
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Taboo topics in fiction: The case of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
… of the narrators and calls into question the truth-value of fiction and the inappropriateness of the law to ban fiction that discusses taboo issues. The main aim of my thesis is to discredit Humbert as a reliable narrator and character by analysing the taboo issues of paedophilia, incest, rape …
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Smoothness- transferred random field
… example, we build a RF model with "ground truth smoothness energy", where the compatibility function is constructed from ground truth value. Then, for each test example, we use data-driven method to find its correspondence with training examples. Lastly, we construct the smoothness energy …
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Consumer Mutations: Mediated Subjectivities of the Incipient Digital Age
… that prompts consumer skepticism regarding its truth value. However, seemingly democratic Internet platforms, such as Facebook and YouTube, promise consumer engagement in which users can break down those hierarchical barriers preventing authentic expression. Under the guise of presumed …
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An exploratory study to investigate aspects of the philosophy, method and practical application of pluralist evaluation of counselling
… data types often struggle to maintain adequate 'truth value' for all their statements and findings. A pluralist process and mechanism is proposed to provide a constructive alternative to the essentially destructive models of scientific and epistemological (generally dialectical) progress …
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L’implicazione in C.I. Lewis. La nascita dell’implicazione stretta dagli scritti giovanili alla Symbolic Logic
… in a specific way to those chapters dedicated to truth-value systems and to the notions of implication and deducibility, central ideas in the Harvard’s philosopher logic system. Furthermore a section has been dedicated to the analysis of the systems of strict implication: S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, that …
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Automatic testing of software with structurally complex inputs
… predicate--a piece of code that returns a truth value--that returns true if the input satisfies the required property and false otherwise. Korat implements our technique for solving imperative predicates: given a predicate and a bound on the size of the predicate's inputs, Korat …
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A Thesis, Allegedly
… of false claims. However, a focus on the truth value of content can obscure the embeddedness of information in social, communicative practices. One way of apprehending the sociocultural dimensions is through an analysis of the stances people take toward the information they circulate …
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The Inspiration to Activism: Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut as Hopeful Critics of Humanity
… and Fictional Narratives: Versions of Truth" employs the tenets of New Historicism to analyze the implications of employing fiction to challenge history. Both texts challenge institutional control of truth and declare that events should remain open to interpretation. To Twain and …
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The role of newspaper editorials in the re-production of community
… the suspension of questions of ideology and truth value), it is worthwhile because it facilitates a development of our theoretical/empirical knowledge of some of the crucial social processes found in media language. The concluding chapter distinguishes different forms of the re-production of …
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An inflexible semantics for cross-categorial operators
… on a meaning characteristic of a sentence -- a truth-value or proposition. The thesis presents four case studies testing a central prediction of the SIH: that when and/only appear to compose with an expression having a non-sentential meaning, there must be covert syntax underlying to furnish an …
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