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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"credence"”.
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Consistency in choice and credence
This thesis concerns epistemic and practical rationality. That is, it is about what to believe and what to do. In Chapter 1, 1 argue that theories of practical rationality should be understood as evaluating decisions as opposed to ordinary sorts of non-mental actions. In Chapter 2, I use the …
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Information and Markets for Credence Goods
… considers how imperfect information about credence goods impacts consumer welfare. Since consumers do not notice a change in quality of a credence good, a non-optimal consumption choice is made which impacts consumer welfare. I develop a framework to account for the welfare effects of …
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Ambiguity and credence quality: Implications for technology adoption
Use of fertilizer and hybrid seed remains low in much of Sub-Saharan Africa. A possible contributor to low adoption is that farmers are uncertain about the quality of agricultural inputs available to them. While previous studies have shown that risk and uncertainty preferences are relevant to the …
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The value and role of food labels: three essays examining information flows in the food system for experience and credence attributes
… with particular attention to experience and credence attributes. Unobserved product characteristics such as taste, food safety, nutrition, or quality are inherently difficult to quantify but are frequent determinants of demand. Since not all these characteristics are measurable (e.g., food …
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Partial belief and expert testimony
… the Principal Principle-the thesis that one's credence in a proposition A should equal one's expectation of A's chance, provided one has no inadmissible information-is incompatible with Humean Supervenience-the thesis that that laws of nature, dispositions, and objective chances supervene on …
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The Indistinguishability Between the Arbitrary and Non-Arbitrary Nature of Things in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
… contemporary phenomena with the aim of adding credence to the thesis that there is an indistinguishability between the arbitrary nature and the non-arbitrary nature of things. When we explain that these phenomena add credence to such indistinguishability, as opposed to demonstrate that such …
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Constraining credences
… dissertation is about ways in which our rational credences are constrained: by norms governing our opinions about counterfactuals, by the opinions of other agents, and by our own previous opinions. In Chapter 1, I discuss ordinary language judgments about sequences of counterfactuals, and then …
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Producción de atributos de calidad: efectos sobre la estructura de oferta y del mercado. Un análisis aplicado al mercado argentino de leche fluida
… que incorporan atributos de calidad (del tipo credence). En estos mercados, la incertidumbre acerca de la "verdadera" calidad de los productos y la asimetría de información entre los agentes económicos son elementos claves que afectan las percepciones de los consumidores, las estrategias …
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What advertisers want : a hedonic analysis of advertising rates in South African consumer magazines
… techniques. The analysis lends some statistical credence to some widely held beliefs in the publishing industry; namely that advertisers value the young, the educated and the affluent as audiences. The role of race and gender in the determination of magazine advertising rates is also explored.
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Literary Dialect In Flannery O'Connor's "The Lame Shall Enter First" And "Good Country People"
… US at the time of her writing and further lend credence to arguments of literary critics who applaud her strength in writing.
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Markers of a real estate agent's value-add
… rely on reviews to assess service quality in credence markets, the extent to which reviews provide reliable indicators of true effectiveness remains uncertain. To address this, we develop a structured framework for evaluating credence services with ten textual attributes. Our findings show …
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The Power Behind the Constitution: The Supreme Court.
… results of these decisions for the nation add credence to the assertion that of the three branches of government the strongest and most powerful was and is the Supreme Court.</p>
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Regulating lobbying’s influence on trade policy in South Africa to achieve openness, transparency and integrity.
… Adam to defy his covenant with God, lending credence to Lipsen’s assertion that lobbying is the oldest profession in the world. In today’s world, biblical covenants have given way to social contracts between governments and citizens in terms of social contract theory which posits that …
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Salamanders of the Mio-Pliocene Gray Fossil Site, Washington County, Tennessee.
… desmognathine. The desmognathine fossils lend credence to the 'Appalachian' origin of the clade in the Mio-Pliocene. The GFS salamander fauna is predominated by plethodontids; competition is inferred by the presence of several similarly large-sized taxa and is invoked to explain the presence of …
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The Legend and Life of Peter Francisco: Fame, Fortune, and the Deprivation of America's Original Citizen Soldier
… reality. And although this interpretation gives credence to Francisco's romantic legend, it primarily addresses how Francisco, as a historical agent, tested the various elitist limits of early American republicanism. Furthermore, it contends that Francisco's greatest historical legacy may …
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Gustav Mahler and His Disciples: An Exploration of Tempo In the Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer Recordings of the Ninth Symphony
… Mahler' works, one must certainly lend the most credence to those that knew him, worked with him and even watched him at work. This study explores the relationships between Mahler and his two most notable disciples Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer. It also explores the influences that Mahler had …
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Time-Based Work-Family Conflict: Myth or Reality?
… in the present study, the current data offered credence for a number of alternative explanations.</p>
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The Direct and Indirect Contributions of Western Missionaries to Korean Nationalism during the Late Choson and Early Japanese Annexation Periods 1884-1920.
… shed light on the subject at hand and give credence to the thesis. Chapters 2-4 show the direct contributions of Western missionaries to Korean nationalism and Chapters 5-7 show the indirect contributions of Western missionaries by the direct involvement of Korean Christians in their fight …
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Central Sacrifice and the Sacrificial Other: A Thematic Comparison of Anti-Judaic and Anti-Semitic Artwork Emerging in Germany
… understanding, and historical lineage, giving credence and validity to those that came after. This message cultivated a theological hatred for a group of people that was ideologically grounded in a codified religion. The images range in context and content, but all surround the idea of a …
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A drama of discourse: competing narratives in the Book of Job
… authors in works of ambiguous genre, lending credence to the complicated and multifaceted nature of the Book of Job’s genre and message`. Particularly, it speaks against the traditional interpretation of the Book of Job as either a pedagogical lesson in suffering and temperance, or as an …
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