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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"incommensurability"”.
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Rhetorical Perspectivism: an Epistemologically Meaningful Response to Incommensurability
… an epistemologically meaningful response to incommensurability. Rhetorical perspectivism is reviewed as a theory of rhetorical epistemology, and applied to the McLean v. Arkansas evolution/creation trial. The study found that the theory provides significant insight into the creation/evolution …
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Progress In Scientific Revolutions: The Problem Of Semantic Incommensurability
… has accumulated across the theory change. Thus, incommensurability creates a problem for the justification of the standard cumulative conception of scientific progress.;To resolve this problem, I distinguish irresolvable strong in commensurability from weak incommensurability, which is …
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O Kae? An Autoethnographic Dramaturgy Through A Deliberate Incommensurability
… that pivots around the notion of 'deliberate incommensurability' as a catalyst for exploration. 'deliberate incommensurability' is a term I have coined myself as it suggests an agency in the black woman as subject and object of study. I suggest the requirement for an autoethnographic inquest …
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Policy, values & incommensurability: the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Project
In this thesis I explore the following question: When a government agency is charged with implementing policies formulated in the light of scientific principles, why do the justifications for implementation differ from justifications for the legislation? The predator reintroduction being carried …
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com-posing abolitionist≠posthumanism: notes on incommensurability, incomputability and incognita syn-aesthetics
… and theories on digitality, i pose incommensurability, incomputability and incognita syn-aesthetics as moments for desedimenting “the Human” as a genre of being in which the logics of recognition, legibility, exposure and transparency circumscribe a carceral worlding. Attending to …
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Scientific change and the meanings of terms : an examination of P.K. Feyerabend's incommensurability theses
Feyerabend's incommensurability thesis concerning scientific change engenders a number of logical problems. While it is possible to examine Feyerabend's theory in relation to his historical arguments, the defects implicit in his arguments for the theory render more appropriate an analytical …
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Incommensurability and scientific progress : an essay concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories
… put forward in terms of which it is shown that incommensurability between theories is something other than the change of meaning of their individual terms, and that, in any case, such a change of meaning does not entail relativism. Furthermore this alternative conception, in seeing the relation …
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The incommensurability of the archaic perceptions of the maxim res ipsa loquitur in medical negligence litigation
This thesis assesses the legal doctrine res ipsa loquitur ('the thing speaks for itself) in the context of delictual claims for compensation for medical negligence in South African law. The thesis accepts that the doctrine is defensible in principle: a civil court may justifiably draw an inference …
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Nothing to disagree about: Aristotle, Newton, and the existence of void as seen through a Kuhnian lens
… this work, I argue that a doctrine of theoretic incommensurability, something like that offered by Thomas Kuhn, can be used to to explain the disagreement between Aristotle and Isaac Newton regarding the existence of void. A significant portion of the work is directed at identifying Kuhn’s mature …
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Towards a framework for multiparadigm multimethodologies in systems thinking and practice
… states that because the problem of paradigm incommensurability begins at the level of ontology the solution lies there as well. Rather than supporting just one or a few paradigms, a different type of ontology is needed to explain ontological variety. It is argued that we can only perceive …
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Population growth as a problem in the public sphere: current state of play and future prospects
… In particular, these differences are a source of incommensurability and/or disagreement among the thinkers. They are also entail that alternative senses of the "real problems" are being considered. The final chapter recommends a framework which will improve PG discourse as it presently stands. …
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Royce and Perry on Idealism and Realism
… however, I will show that the degree of incommensurability involved in the debate played an important role in the shift in American philosophy at the time.
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Reflective judgment vs. investigation of things – a comparative study of Kant and Zhu Xi
… of the two events, I reveal the convergence and incommensurability between the two distinct cultural traditions concerning the metaphysical quests, the mechanism of intellectual development, and moral teleology, so as to capture the intrinsic characteristics of philosophical research in general.
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Geriausio paaiškinimo išvedimo patikimumo ribos /
… practice, due to the bad lot argument, possible incommensurability of explanatory virtues, pessimistic induction and better safe than sorry beliefs all the four ways of justification of IBE in terms of truth-conduciveness cannot be taken for granted which leaves IBE only accidentally valid.
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Ideal pathologies : Jean-Marc Bourgery's Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme (1831-1854)
… plates, this thesis underscores the fraught incommensurability of these images while also taking seriously how both anatomist and artist invested in the potential of representation to bridge the gap between the ideal and the dead.
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Principles, opportunism and seeing in design : a computational approach
… seeing over an arbitrarily short period, and the incommensurability of criteria used to evaluate a design. The thesis argues for a principle based rather than rule based approach to designing design systems, and highlights the manifest nature of design documents. The Discursive Generator is …
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The Objective Pluralism of Isaiah Berlin A Historical Approach to Ethical and Political Philosophy
… since it fatally undermines the strong sense of incommensurability which is the defining characteristic of pluralism as a distinct and radical doctrine. Alongside his view that values are commonly intelligible, Berlin retains a minimal ethical universalism, framed in terms of his concept of …
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1/F Noise & slow spin dynamics in chromium, chromium alloys, and disordered iron zirconium
… commensurate phase. This absence indicates that incommensurability plays a crucial role in the polarization domain dynamics. Amorphous FeZr undergoes two magnetic phase transitions which were studied using 1 If noise. The first transition is from a paramagnetic to a ferromagnetic phase. The noise …
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Critical systems thinking and pluralism : a new constellation
… theoretical issues concerned with paradigm incommensurability and the solutions offered by various critical systems writers. The problems of "imperialism" are outlined together with an analysis of the meta-theoretical views which purport to avoid imperialism. It is suggested that researchers …
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Invoking the public interest in planning
… processes that address the problems of value incommensurability, and allowing for the consideration of distributional effects. The procedures also allow for the inclusions of private interests where it is in the public interest to do so (the Wood-Robinson principle), thus ensuring that …
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