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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"partiality"”.
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Biological Life and the Partiality Relation
… that one significant source of the relation of partiality comes from degrees of biological connectedness and continuity between organisms. I argue that this account fares better than a competing account of the source of partiality which relies on psychological connectedness and continuity. I …
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Persons and partiality: limitations on consequentialist justifications
Should the authorities observe the rules regarding the treatment of enemy combatants, or is it morally justified for the authorities to violate some human rights in order to make everyone safer? Some moral theorists are committed to the claim that using torture for the greater good is not only …
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Transfigured partiality : toward a positive account of Kierkegaardian special loves.
… but also as a unique response to the problem of partiality in ethics, with the potential to overcome certain stalemates in the current discussions. Kierkegaard's response to the problem (usually framed today as the problem of how to justify a degree of partiality or special treatment given that, …
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Provincial government and regional development
… reform by addressing the problems rooted in its partiality and regionalisation. The reform started in the field of political administration and toleration of decentralisation and marketisation in the economic sphere has generated economic prosperity in some regions. But economic reform was not …
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The Morality of Familial Obligation
… the belief that we have special obligations of partiality to family members. Chapters one and two focus on important definitions and potential objections to the dissertation's central project. The first of those objections is that it is impossible to generalize about familial obligations because …
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Truly An Awesome Spectacle: Gender Performativity And The Alienation Effect In Angels In America
… theoretical framework, suggesting Kushner's partiality to openly gay men who can actively participate in the cessation of gay male oppression.
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The evidence of Bias within Art Historical Methodolgy and the Potentiality of Viewer Dialog as a Pedegogical Tool.
<p>The evidence of cultural and social partiality within the methodology of art history has influenced the manner in which art is presented to the public. The formally structured and often obsolete methods of the earliest art historians continue to influence the telling of art history today, …
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Examining One's Own: Reflexivity and Critique in STS
… to STS - while STS analysts attempt to show the partiality of scientific claims, they simultaneously offer those analyses via authoritative pronouncements in scientific language, while claiming a scientific foundation. This thesis questions the understanding of science as a form of inquiry …
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The everyday Bogans: Identity and community amongst Heavy Metal fans
… provides one method through which to remedy the partiality of preferred approaches to community as practised in contemporary social psychology. Opening up analysis to the consideration of processes of communing exposes the interconnection of identity and community, symbiosis that develops through …
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I Don't Know Why You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello: Concepts of Place in Eudora Welty's <i>The Optimist's Daughter</i> and Elizabeth Bowen's <i>The Death of the Heart</i>
… by Bowen in The Death of the Heart exhibit a partiality for mobility over rootedness. In The Optimist's Daughter, Welty's protagonist must confront a possible loss of heart and home, and in The Death of the Heart, Bowen's protagonist is faced with an actual loss of freedom and mobility. Thus, …
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Making discrete decisions based on continuous values
… language allowing nondeterminism and/or partiality, and introduces two tools for creating nondeterministic programs on spaces. Overlapping pattern matching is a generalization of pattern matching in functional programming, where patterns need not represent decidable predicates and also …
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The Role of Costume in British Folk Festivals, 1660 to the Present Day
… transgressive humour, creating a sense of partiality for the audience. This partiality through humour is crucial to the success of the event but its importance was overlooked by folklorists in the early twentieth century who emphasised elements of disguise and ritual. Although disguise is …
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Dysfunctional market or insufficient creditworthiness? : an exploration of financial constraint experienced by small, medium and micro enterprises in South Africa
… Surveys of banks or SMMEs raise risks of partiality and limited ability of respondents to provide quantitative data, while accounting data are characterised by limited usability and reliability. This thesis attempts to address those challenges by exploring primary and secondary sources of …
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The ethics of war, protest, and South African state-sanctioned violence
… Problem and questions Metz’s reliance on the partiality principle. The Initial Force Objection addresses the problem of not being able to identify an initial aggressor in the intrastate case, which is relevant to the question of defensive force. The Reconciliation Objection addresses the …
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Blackshirts and White Wigs: Reflections on Public Order Law and the Political Activism of the British Union of Fascists
… explanation for the appearance of political partiality within the police force.
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Doing Less Than Best
… reasons to resist longtermism on the grounds of partiality. In Chapter Five (“The Complaints of Future People”) I argue that scepticism about aggregation is inconsistent with an obligation, or indeed even a permission, to help far future people. In Chapter Six (“Leaving the Present Behind”) I …
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Behavioural Model Fusion
… These are made possible by explicit modelling of partiality, variability and regularity in behavioural models, and providing semantic-preserving notions for relating these models.
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Photographs from the road: Inge Morath, Sophie Calle, Sally Mann and feminist road trip vision
… on the road, thrives upon documentation, partiality, situated knowledge, and sharing. Feminist road trip vision is valuable in its very incompleteness and stays true to the partial and strange experiences of the road.
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The History of Greek and Roman Historiography
… BC onwards, historians invoked their lack of partiality in their pursuit of their readers’ trust. By contrast, the historians of the fifth and fourth centuries BC highlighted not the absence of any biases but their authorial accuracy. Second, I examine the way in which the ‘rise and fall’ …
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The spread of violent civil conflict : rare state-driven, and preventable
… governments in conflict; and Meddling with Overt Partiality, the deliberate interference in another state's conflict by a state government that subsequently leads to conflict in the interfering state. After introducing this State Action Explanation, I probe its empirical plausibility by …
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