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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"ontic"”.
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The ontic inference language
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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The Epistemic and Ontic Conceptions of Scientific Explanation
… and Peter Railton (or between the epistemic and ontic conceptions of scientific explanation, more generally) as one over which conception of explanation is correct, I claim that Hempel and Railton were responding to two different questions altogether. Hempel was addressing a question akin to …
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Against the Linguistic Strategy for the Ontic Conception of Scientific Explanation
… views, Craver has been developing an ontic account of scientific explanation. According to this view, explanations are not representations of things in the real world but are the things in the world themselves. In a recent paper, Craver (2013) argues in favor of the ontic view by …
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On the classification of business strategy
… within such literature that addresses the ontic and epistemic status of cross-cutting abstract institutional kinds that might apply to the categorisation of generalised strategic behaviours. Accordingly, this thesis develops an eclectic synthesis of theoretical contributions from …
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Inauthenticity and self-deception in Heidegger's Being and Time in relation to psychotherapy
… to be due mostly to Heidegger's lack of focus on ontic issues, his refusal to consider a moral and ethical dimension to his work and his replacement of a theory of self with a description of Daseins world relations. While this is in some ways a strength and an original position that allows us to …
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The odyssey of intuition : a non-reductive interpretation of technology through a case study of bridges
… for defining "bridge," and secondly, the ontic-ontological dimensions of the "bridge." The case studies provide the facts to which these definitions can be applied. Using the constraints of a historical time-frame, changes in bridge-building are documented and evaluated to provide the …
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The Moral Foundations of Fair Labelling
… is a site of certain kind of injustice - an ontic injustice. This ontic injustice creates a mismatch between the offender’s entitlements (as per critical morality) and the legal categories and duties imposed on them when allocating blame in punishment. I argue that fair labelling is concerned …
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The Jesuit Imaginary: Higher Education in a Secular Age
… descriptions of fullness and a corresponding "ontic commitment" to a transcendent source, I develop three specific "pedagogies of fullness." The pedagogy of study, the pedagogy of solidarity, and the pedagogy of grace are higher educational strategies that emerge out of the Renaissance humanist …
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In Search of Marketing Management : A Study of Managing in Marketing.
… managerial work is developed that rests at an 'ontic level' between that of classical / 'Fayolian' management theory and the conceptualisations generated through the empirical study of managerial work. The developed model characterises the 'substance' of managerial conduct as the 'shaping and …
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Patternhood, Correlation, and Generality: Foundations of a Peircean Theory of Patterns
… of the theory is motivated by a discussion of Ontic Structural Realism (OSR), a theory that has recently been gaining attention in analytic philosophy of science, especially in philosophy of physics. The central claim of OSR is that only patterns (structures) are real; individual objects are …
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Edith Stein: Toward an Ethic of Relationship and Responsibility
… uses in unfolding his/her personal core or ontic blueprint. The soul, specifically the personal core, individuates the human person. It is at this personal core that God's gifts of nature and grace are found; a person must recognize and use these gifts if his/her potential is to become a …
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What's the Matter? Toward a Neo-Aristotelian Ontology of Nature
… ontology approach’ to quantum mechanics with ontic structural realism (Chapter 4). According to Super-Humeans, the world is made of matter points constituted by distance relations. I raise three objections to its structuralist conception of matter. I then propose an alternative semi-Humean …
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The Case for Quantum State Realism
… that are epistemic with respect to underlying ontic states, and those that are epistemic with respect to measurement outcomes. The Pusey Barrett and Rudolph (PBR) theorem places serious constraints on the former family of interpretations. I identify an important explanatory gap in the latter …
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Whiteness and the Return of the "Black Body"
… that not only does the Black body defy the ontic fixity projected upon it through the white gaze, and, hence, through the episteme of whiteness, but the white body is also fundamentally symbolic, requiring demystification of its status as norm, the paragon of beauty, order, innocence, …
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Groundwork and Principles for Applied Conservatism
… Through these surveys, Ladyman and Ross’ ontic structural realism is proposed as a bridge- builder between religious and non-religious conservatives. Epistemic conservatism is argued to be necessary for all non-circular epistemic inquiry, with responses suggested to Littlejohn’s concerns …
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'n Tematologiese indeks tot C.K. Oberholzer se "prolegomena van 'n prinsipiële pedagogiek", met besondere verwysing na enkele hoofaksente wat daaruit blyk (Afrikaans)
… method; the relationship between ontic and ontological, upbringing as a matter of being involved in a view of life; science as a matter of conscious being; the relative autonomy of Pedagogics; grounding pedagogics in the life world; demands concerning propriety, values, norms; the …
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A community-based experience of being permanently excluded from secondary school: an existential reflection
… and clarity. The findings indicate that the ontic nature of participants’ lifeworlds is a major factor leading to exclusion and that discussion about exclusion should involve an existential understanding of these youths’ experiences in the world, including the harrowing and fearsome …
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'Existential migration': voluntary migrants' experiences of not being-at-home in the world
… and homelessness, by contrasting their ontic and ontological meanings, revealing existential perspectives on our contemporary world. In Part Two, the emerging phenomenological themes are clustered and "crossed" with existing concepts in various disciplines and in …
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One house: text & drawings
… Nor does it, in Heidegger’s sense, allow for the ontic happening of truth. Instead, art is the world of man in the Absolute Spirit brought into physical form. This passing of art into a new age remains an undecided question for Heidegger and Cassirer. Their differences with Hegel turn upon how the …
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An Exploration of Communication Ethics Scholarship and Economic Spheres
… Capitalism creates a hierarchy grounded in an ontic presumption of sameness. Its institutions, such as corporations, reify hierarchical order while the freedom to enter into contracts, which Taylor identifies as a primary turn toward “civility” after the 16<sup>th</sup>-17<sup>th</sup> century …
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