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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"indeterminacy"”.
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Valid-time indeterminacy.
In valid-time indeterminacy, it is known that an event stored in a temporal database did in fact occur, but it is not known exactly when the event occurred. We extend a tuple-timestamped temporal data model to support valid-time indeterminacy and outline its implementation. This work is novel in …
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Nexus of indeterminacy
Every year, China experiences the largest human migration in history during the 40 days of Chinese New Year (Chun Yun). It is a period when migrant workers travel from coastal industrial cities to inland rural areas for family gatherings. Just in 2012, over 235 million people migrated across the …
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Chance, indeterminacy, and explanation
… literature. In the first chapter, "Chance, Indeterminacy, and Explanation", I argue against the common and influential view that chances are those probabilities that arise when the fundamental laws are indeterministic. The problem with this view, I claim, is not that it conflicts with some …
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Schrödinger's Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics
… account of folk metaethics may be metaethical indeterminacy: ordinary people are neither realists nor antirealists, and neither best explains the way people speak or think. The case for metaethical indeterminacy proceeds in two steps. First, I argue that all published studies on folk metaethics …
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Indeterminacy-aware prediction model for authentication in IoT.
… well studied in the literature, we highlighted “indeterminacy” in authentication as a neglected research issue. This work stresses that an indeterminacy-resilient model for IoT authentication is missing from the literature. According to our findings, indeterminacy consists of at least two facets: …
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Portfolio of Compositions: compositions of indeterminacy and predeterminacy
… acousmatic work, all concerned with the use of indeterminacy or predeterminacy in either their composition or performance. The accompanying commentary describes the ideas behind and processes of creating these works, with an accompanying CD containing recordings of four realisations of 2494.8 …
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Binarism and indeterminacy in the novels of Thomas Pynchor
I attempt in this thesis, to graft together a close critical, and predominantly thematic, reading of Thomas Pynchon's novels with selected issues treated in the work of Jacques Derrida on philosophy and textuality, illustrating how this work demands the revision and interrogation of several major …
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An Indeterminacy-based Local Approach and Ontology for Quantum Theory
… more like a predictor and that quantum indeterminacy plays an important explanatory role, I will argue that iii) the wavefunction is more like a predictor for different possibilities rather than a law or a field in a multidimensional space, and that iv) quantum indeterminacy plays a key …
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There is no Afghanistan: the historic indeterminacy of Afghan sovereign identity
… that Afghanistan has been assigned a certain indeterminacy in its character through the course of those interactions to the extent that assumptions of statehood which necessarily predate state failure are problematic. This project contributes to academic knowledge by bringing a careful …
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The Indeterminacy of Longform Poetics in John Cage and Charles Olson
… Olson and of John Cage, and with the role indeterminacy plays in their constitution and reception. The work of these authors poses unusual and particular challenges to readers, and it is towards readers and reading that this thesis is primarily oriented. Each chapter describes a problem or …
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THE PERSISTENCE OF INDETERMINACY: CONTEMPORARY THEORIES AND KRIPKENSTEIN'S CHALLENGE TO REPRESENTATIONAL CONTENT
This thesis is concerned with the foundations of representational content. There is a familiar feature of words, sentences, beliefs, and perceptions: they are about, or mean, or represent something. The sentence “cats are cute” is about cats being cute, and my belief that cats are cute is also …
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English productions of 'Measure for Measure' on stage and screen : the play's indeterminacy and the authority of performance
… the first chapter, I argue that, because of its indeterminacy, in the early modern period, Measure for Measure helped not only to reaffirm the absolute authority of the monarchy but also to cultivate scepticism towards it, and how spectators at Whitehall and the Globe read performances would have …
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The Limits of Indeterminacy: The Performance and Analysis of Selected Indeterminate Compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown
<p>This study elucidates the relationship between notation, performance practice, and musical realization in several indeterminate compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown. While both Cage and Brown emphasized the multiplicity of possible outcomes in these works, the distinct configurations of …
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The authority of indeterminate law
… dissertation I identify various sources of legal indeterminacy and scrutinize the functions that indeterminacy can play in law. In particular, I focus on the authority of indeterminate law: how it can be that laws of which it is not clear which obligations they impose, nonetheless impose …
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Boolean-Valued Models and Their Applications
… models to the language of mereology to model indeterminacy in the parthood relation. I argue that Boolean-valued semantics is the best degree-theoretic semantics for the language of mereology. In particular, it trumps the well-known alternative - fuzzy-valued semantics. I also show that, …
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The grotesque in the works of Federico Fellini and Angela Carter
… on the subject by Horace and Vitruvius. The indeterminacy and paradoxical nature of the grotesque, which disturbed these men of antiquity, has continued to generate debate among modern theorists such as Mikhail Bakhtin and Wolfgang Kayser whose ideas serve as touchstones throughout this work. …
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(In)Determinacy: incorporating openness in programmed music and performance
… portfolio and commentary demonstrates the use of indeterminacy as a method for creating live music and theater performances. The included works draw from Dadaist and Surrealist collage, avant garde theater, contemporary art, and contemporary composition, and use code, networked media, and open …
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The Complexity of Identifying Genocide in the Midst of Bloodshed
… whether it is instead better explained by the indeterminacy of the definition and elements of the legal crime of genocide itself. To address this contention, the thesis proceeds along three core strands of research which illustrate the complexities involved in identifying the crime of genocide …
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James Hogg's Ambiguously Justified Sinner
This thesis explores Hogg's interpretation of indeterminacy both throughout his career and in Justified Sinner, especially in the character Gil-Martin. Hogg seems to reject the tradition of choosing one side over another in such a dichotomy, and instead chooses to look at both extremes as equally …
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