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Ignorance and grammar
… is characterized by the presence of grammatical ignorance implicatures. In this they differ from their simpler alternatives. I will show how the proposed Matrix K theory of implicature derives this result. The new theory is a radically grammatical theory in that all kinds of implicatures - weak, …
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Ignorance Production and Corporate Science
… exploration of “agnotology”, the study of ignorance or non-knowledge, and focuses on the production of ignorance for private interests. In particular, I argue that corporate science often deliberately produces ignorance in an effort to promote corporate interests. My thesis is structured …
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Pluralistic ignorance of campus norms
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Knowledge and Ignorance in Reinforcement Learning
The field of Reinforcement Learning is concerned with teaching agents to take optimal decisions to maximize their total utility in complicated environments. A Reinforcement Learning problem, generally described by the Markov Decision Process formalism, has several complex interacting components, …
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Slowness, Identity and Ignorance: Milan Kundera’s French Variations
… Kundera: Slowness (1995), Identity (1998) and Ignorance (2002). Originally written in French, the author’s second language, after six novels, a short-story collection and a play originally written in Czech, these texts are often bracketed off from the rest of his writing and seen as something …
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German Militant Ignorance towards Palestinian Experiences of Israeli Settler Colonialism
… Using a conceptual framework combining ignorance, Orientalism and coloniality of power, it complicates previous research into the topic by unpacking the intricate connections between German Holocaust memory and Germany’s position of power within colonial power dynamics. To capture the …
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Evil as Ontological Ignorance: Reframing Proclus' De malorum subsistentia
Αυτή η διατριβή διερευνά το πρόβλημα του κακού στο De malorum subsistentia (Περί της Ύπαρξης των Κακών) του Πρόκλου, μια σύντομη αλλά πλούσια σε εννοιολογικά στοιχεία πραγματεία στην οποία ο νεοπλατωνικός φιλόσοφος επιδιώκει να εξηγήσει πώς μπορεί να θεωρηθεί ότι το κακό υπάρχει χωρίς να …
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Pluralistic Ignorance of Attitudes Toward Mental Health Services Among College Students
… lack of service use. Particularly, pluralistic ignorance has not been assessed—that is, the systematic misperception of others' cognitions and behaviors within a social group. It is possible that pluralistic ignorance contributes to the underutilization of services on college campuses. I began …
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Pluralistic Ignorance Of Attitudes Toward Mental Health Services Among College Students
… lack of service use. Particularly, pluralistic ignorance has not been assessed—that is, the systematic misperception of others’ cognitions and behaviors within a social group. It is possible that pluralistic ignorance contributes to the underutilization of services on college campuses. I began …
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Malice, inequality, instability, or ignorance? Disentangling the mechanisms of LLM unfairness
Ensuring fairness in large language models (LLMs) is critical as these models are increasingly deployed in sensitive domains. Traditional fairness metrics typically report a single scalar score, which conflates distinct sources of model failure and obscures underlying biases. In this work, we …
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Overcoming Global Ignorance: Developing Geographic Literacy in a World Regional Geography Course
… consequences of failing to address geographic ignorance, and what instructional methodology could successfully address the problem? Once baseline geographic knowledge is assessed in the classroom, how can it be improved? The hypothesis of this study is that teaching students geography through a …
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) and Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) demonstrate the futility of educating women, given Britain's law of coverture; they expose the impracticality of ideal women presented in Jean Jacques Rousseau's Émile (1762) and James …
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Capitalizing the Measure of Our Ignorance: A Pragmatist Genealogy of R&D
As the dust of the Second World War began to settle, that which began life in the U.S. as an experimental space in early twentieth century firms became a knowable object of intervention for economics and accountancy alike. Jumpstarted by the war, research and development, or RandD, was pulled into …
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Building pockets of peace. A case study using the "Veil of Ignorance" methodology
… how I conceptualised the “peace behind a veil of ignorance” (VOI) methodology. The starting point of the theoretical concept is political philosophy (Rawls’ theory of justice) which is complemented by research on emotions, social identity, and intergroup conflict. I detail the process of bridging …
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The Wrath of Ignorance: Schizophrenic Policies in Access to Health Care for Undocumented Latinas
… review of literature which together suggest that ignorance on the part of providers, the public, politicians, and the media is the most critical barrier preventing health care access for undocumented Latinas. Consequently, the participants promote education for themselves and for the community as …
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The Unbelievable Truth and the Dilemmas of Ignorance: Rethinking Student Resistance in Social Justice Education
… educational theory---resistance, privilege, and ignorance---are insufficiently complex and draw on psychoanalytic and anticolonial theory to show how more dynamic conceptions of each can help to alleviate much of the anger, frustration, and resentment that circulates in social justice teacher …
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