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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"felicity"”.
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The time of possibilities : truth and felicity of subjunctive conditionals
… of them accounts for the contrast between the felicity conditions of different types of subjunctive conditionals. Instead, I will argue that our theory based on a time-dependent notion of accessibility can.
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Counterfactuals in Context: Felicity conditions for counterfactual conditionals containing proper names
This thesis provides felicity conditions for counterfactual conditionals containing proper names in which essential changes to an individual are counterfactually posited using contrastive focus in either the antecedent or consequent clause. The felicity conditions proposed are an adaptation of …
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Dante's Ministry of Felicity: The Interplay of Beatitude, Metaphysics, and Intercessory Prayer in the Theological Imagination of the 'Commedia'
This thesis is an exercise in theology and Dante studies. It sets as its central research question, “How does intercessory prayer conduce to the realization of beatitude? How does Dante help us think, in other words, about the ways in which prayer for another person’s good actually serves to help …
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The Social Ontology of Psychiatry: Psychiatric Diagnosis as an Ontogenetic, Interpellative Speech Act
… phylogenesis, and interpellation, offering felicity conditions for interpellation and for the type of ontogenetic speech act that psychiatric diagnosis exemplifies – authoritative ontogenetic speech acts. I will demonstrate how psychiatric diagnosis meets these felicity conditions so that it …
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Some Patterns of Imagery in Joseph Conrad's Typhoon
… chronology and narration, and some to "verbal felicity."…</p> <p> …I have chosen to explore in this paper, the “striking images” which Conrad uses in Typhoon. I believe that a careful analysis of the tale will show the reader that one of the chief aspects of Conrad’s style in Typhoon is the …
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Japanese Nouns Koto and No
… by koto or no is threatening to the addressee. Felicity conditions in performing speech acts also interact with the use conditions of koto and no. Even in cases when it is predicted that koto or no does not occur, the speaker may use koto or no to convey the impression that the speaker believes …
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Nothing but the truth: the Sufi testament of 'Aziz Nasafi
… of Sufism and how it is able to contribute to felicity in this life. Having followed the Sufi path, it is possible that a wayfarer may experience unity with God. This is examined in chapter five, and Nasafi's description is compared with that of other Sufis in an attempt to show his "orthodox" …
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Superlative degree clauses : evidence from NPI licensing
… puzzles arise from unexpected contrasts in felicity and acceptability between minimal pairs of sentences instantiating the superlative degree clause structure. These contrasts are explained under the semantic analysis presented in the paper. It is also demonstrated that the environment where …
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The first language acquisition of scalar inferences from -Cocha 'Even' by Korean-speaking children
… inference acquisition. Three experiments - one felicity judgement task, and two preference tasks - were conducted to answer the following research questions: i) when Korean-speaking children are able to make scalar inferences from -cocha 'even'; ii) whether Korean-speaking children are able to …
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Impact of EU's Decisions on Euro-Skepticism of Two Turkish Nationalist and Religious Peripheral Parties
… parties, ,the Nationalist Action Party and the Felicity Party, and on two different events (on December 17,2004 and on October 03,2005). Since the study had 4 general hypotheses, the total hypothesis testing occurred 16 times. To be able to prove the hypotheses, the content analysis technique …
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Coordination in conversation
… seem to have the same basic goal, and yet their felicity conditions subtly differ. I argue for a new characterization of those differences, and a broadly pragmatic explanation of those differences based on the approach to epistemic modals advocated in the preceding chapters. In Chapter 4, I …
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Traditional Islamic Ethics: The Concept of Spiritual Virtue and its Implications for Contemporary Human Rights
… in life a virtuous Heart in this world and felicity in the hereafter. The second section concludes by offering some introductory remarks concerning contemporary human rights issues such as the implementation of Islamic law in general, pluralism, corporal punishment, and gender. In doing so, …
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Representations of the Care of the Soul in Early Christian Texts
… of Mary</em> and the <em>Passion of Perpetua and Felicity</em> and what is at stake for women's leadership roles in each of these portrayals. Viewing the early debates in this way--as conflicts regarding issues of self-identity and spiritual development--rather than as debates about knowledge per …
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The poetics of mid-Victorian scientific materialism in the writings of John Tyndall, W.K. Clifford and others
… with great care and an often astonishing felicity: an essay on cosmology, after all, acquires quite a different colouration when interleaved with the cadences of Milton, another again if illustrated with quotations from Whitman or an epigram from ‘Tintern Abbey’. My 1st chapter provides a …
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The Music of Rene Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760): a Source Study and Stylistic Survey, with Emphasis on His Sacred Output : a thesis submitted to the New Zealand School of Music in fulfilment of the degree of Master of Music in Musiology
Rene Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760) was an admired composer and an organist of renown. This thesis examines this musician's life and work, and attempts to bring Bousset's music, hitherto largely unknown, to the attention of musicologists and performers today. Primarily a source study, the thesis …
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Brightening the Countryside - The Library Service in Rural Ireland, 1902 - 1935.
The thesis traces the development of the rural library service in Ireland between 1902 and 1935, with particular reference to the part played by Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, which he established in 1913, in that development. The first chapters explore the nineteenth …
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