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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"equivocation"”.
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“There Goes that Relationship”: Journalistic Aggression and Political Equivocation in Joint Press Conferences
… Elliott, Heritage, and McDonald (2004) and equivocation typologies by Bull and Mayer (1993). First, journalists’ questions were evaluated on five different measures – initiative, directness, assertiveness, adversarialness, and accountability. Next, political leaders’ answers were assessed on …
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Autonomy, Paternalism, and the Moral Foundations of the Fiduciary Relationship
… by at least two conceptual problems: moral-legal equivocation and paternalism. Legal-moral equivocation refers to the problem of assuming that the normative demands of a legal relationship are also morally normative. The cogent use of the fiduciary relationship in bioethical analysis requires some …
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A critical exposition of Nelson Goodman’s concept of metaphorical exemplification
… has to be carefully examined. A crucial equivocation is exposed in his appeal to similarity to explain the operation of metaphor. I introduce the notion of an affinitive projection as a necessary and useful amendment to avoid the problems discovered. Before proceeding to examine in detail …
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An information theory analysis of grades and grading with an application to beef cattle
… about the quantities of the characteristics;Equivocation is interpreted as the amount of uncertainty remaining about the quantities of the characteristics given receipt of a grade message. In certain situations, information theory provides a definite rule for locating grade class boundaries …
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The semantics and metaphysics of contingent identity
… that it violates transitivity are based on an equivocation which is exposed by paying careful attention to the notion of perspective. Similarly, I argue that the thesis that names are rigid designators is compatible with the Thesis of Contingent Identity. I review the debate between Kripke and …
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Living Words; Dying Flesh: The Truth and Testimonies of Desdemona in Othello and Pompilia in The Ring and the Book
… with a focus on martyrdom, testimony, equivocation, hagiography, and femininity. Furthermore, it compares Desdemona’s and Pompilia’s speeches to those of their husbands through close readings of the primary texts. Desdemona’s and Pompilia’s adherence to spiritual salvation and …
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Paraphilias and the Medicalization of Criminal Behavior
… and psychopathology. I argue that such an equivocation is undesirable in at least three ways: it is contrary to the goals of psychiatry; it allows for the rights of individuals being diagnosed to be routinely violated; and it perpetuates mental illness stigma. These objectionable aspects of …
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The Clock and the Hand: Taking the Pulse in English Medicine, 1650-1710
… of the body. Taking Floyer’s argumentation and equivocation as clues, it traces how the pulse was explained against natural philosophers’ conception of the clocklike human body, how it was expressed under various medical practitioners’ fingers, and how it was manipulated according to lay …
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Law, Love and Freedom
… within itself, conflicting values. Paul’s equivocation in his letters is a striking manifestation of this internal polarization. Second, it argues that, while values are many, my life is one. Hence, one needs to combine the plurality of values within a singular life. Values find their …
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Situating language and consciousness
… and contingency results in frequent equivocation. Thus the disposition to (correctly) judge that psychophysical relations are coincidences manifests itself as a disposition to (incorrectly) judge that psychophysical relations are contingent. In Chapter 4 ('Zombies are Inconceivable') …
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Divine sovereignty and the religious problem of evil: An evaluation of evangelical models
… evaluation is discovering the various degrees of equivocation each model affords Christians in trusting God to bring good out of evil. Chapter 1 explores the nature of the religious problem of evil and distinguishes it from the logical and evidential problems of evil. Three evangelical models are …
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Hélio Oiticica: Politics and Ambivalence in 20th Century Brazilian Art
… eventually drove the work through the apparent equivocation between national culture and avant-garde practice. The study concludes with an analysis of the artist's posthumous dissemination and its relation with today's contemporary Brazilian art.
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Safety-guided design & analysis of space launch vehicles
… as the "default" vehicle design choices. This equivocation of safety and reliability may have made sense for simpler launch vehicles of the past, but most modern space launch vehicle accidents have resulted from incorrect software specifications, component interaction accidents, and other …
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Communication Under Stress: Indicators of Veracity and Deception in Written Narratives
… the narratives and the narrative attributes of equivocation, negation, and relative length of the prologue partition. Three questions asked whether a positive relationship exists between veracity of the narratives and unique sensory details, emotions in the conclusion partition, and quoted …
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The Difficulty of Homecoming: Film and Philosophy through Monster, A Hidden Life, and Mountains May Depart
… its largely overlooked aesthetics of inversion, equivocation, and irony, I show how its protagonists, particularly Franz Jägerstätter, conceive, misconceive, and reconceive home as they negotiate the overlaps and disjunctions between immanence and transcendence. Chapter Three shows how Mountains …
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The tripod in the dunny : a study of Patrick White's sylleptic habits
… prose style and his perception of a moral equivocation that is entailed in the construction of identity and in the making of fiction. Chapter One presents examples of White's sylleptic style. The virtuosity of the figure is seen to reflect the discursive puissance of a detached and ironic …
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Deliberative Democracy and Expertise: New Directions for 21st Century Technology Assessment
… of democracy that clears up a serious problem of equivocation found in appeals to deliberative democracy in current STS literature, this dissertation argues that only a specific set of deliberative theories of democracy, "discursive" deliberative theories of democracy, are capable of fulfilling …
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An evaluation of a career development program in a government research and development center
… from the comparative findings, with the equivocation of the job satisfaction measures, the differences noticed in job commitment were an attempt to use the services of the CDP to "self-actualize" their careers and better utilize their skills both on the job and in nonjob related …
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The academic vocation in Geoffrey Hill and J. H. Prynne
… scholar’ – in the context of a lifelong equivocation over the terms of his professional self-description. The second chapter turns over a series of loose index cards on which Hill had prepared a set of speaking notes concerning his sense of academic specialisation as a philologist. …
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Understanding the value-chain of counterfeit products: A multimethod investigation
The student, - Sreekumar Arun, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-13 at 23:09.
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