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Showing 1 to 20 of 2954 for “"necessity"”.
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Naming without necessity
… there is a dichotomy between de re and de dicto necessity, and that theoretical identities are necessary de re, I think this distinction is both misleading and inaccurate, and that the necessity of theoretical identities is neither entirely de re nor entirely de dicto. By separating and …
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Love, self-constitution, and practical necessity
… “Love, Self-Constitution, and Practical Necessity,” offers an interpretation of love between people. Love is puzzling because it appears to involve essentially both rational and non-rational phenomena. We are accountable to those we love, so love seems to participate in forms of …
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The Necessity of Active Measures in Counterproliferation
The proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) is a grave concern to the United States. In the post-911 world, transnational threats such as terrorism and WMD proliferation are the most pressing issues facing the United States. Both terrorist organizations and rogue states can use WMD as …
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The Necessity of Fundamental Math in College
… settings, while placing specific emphasis on the necessity for a math literate population, as most college students must take at least one course to earn a degree or credential. To improve student persistence in college, there are targeted efforts to decrease the amount of time students spend in …
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The necessity of debranching in starch biosynthesis
… Our study provides further evidence for the necessity of this debranching step through the analysis of the production of phytoglycogen and other novel polysaccharides in strains of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii lacking isoamylase activity. We demonstrate that granule-bound starch synthase I (GBSS …
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Merger notification: the necessity for adequately defining control
Company law notions of control are not always harmonious with those of competition law, and thus the former may need to create its own jurisprudence informed by an appreciation of the purpose of merger notification under the Competition Act 89 of 1998. My research in this study will examine the …
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On the Necessity of Complex Numbers in Quantum Mechanics
In principle, the lattice of elementary propositions of a generic quantum system admits a representation in real, complex or quaternionic Hilbert spaces as established by Solèr’s theorem (1995) closing a long standing problem that can be traced back to von Neumann’s mathematical formulation of …
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EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION IN SOCIAL MEDIA: THE NECESSITY OF DIALOGUE
An organization's communication strategy is vital in developing a relationship with its stakeholders. The increased prevalence of social media means organizations have more tools for communication than ever before. However, maximizing the effectiveness of social media requires an organization to …
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A Critique of Reductive Accounts of the Source of Necessity
… provide a reductive account of the source of the necessity that makes necessary truths necessarily true. After a close examination of existent reductive accounts of the source of necessity, my goal has changed. In this dissertation I argue the prospects for a reductive account of the source of …
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Language, Necessity and Convention: Reconsidering the Linguistic Approach to Modality
… conventionalism') - i.e. the view that necessity is to be explained in terms of the linguistic rules that we have adopted. Drawing on an investigation into the history of this approach, I argue against the currently prevalent attitude that it can be dismissed as misguided. The aim, …
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The Autonomy of Jurisprudence Vindicated: Truth, Necessity, and Conceptual Analysis
What is analytical jurisprudence? The mainstream understanding is that it is a descriptive project of investigating the nature of law by revealing necessary truths about law through the method of conceptual analysis. In recent years this mainstream understanding has been challenged on two fronts: …
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Pan-Orao and historical necessity : adjusted frames and optical settlement
Large horizontally formatted images have frequently been preferred for urban portraiture. Totalizing and comprehensive such compositions depict an environment as landscape or prospect. In rendering an all-encompassing view they attempt an expansive topographic virtuality that warrants …
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The necessity for permanence : making a nuclear waste storage facility
The United States Department of Energy is proposing to build a nuclear waste storage facility in southern Nevada. This facility will be designed to last 10,000 years. It must prevent the waste from contaminating the environment by either natural causes or by human intervention. This thesis …
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