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Pragmatic factors of deontic reasoning
This thesis is concerned with pragmatic factors of deontic reasoning, namely scale of violation, aggravating and mitigating circumstances and power of source. Nine experiments are reported investigating deontic reasoning and judgement revision. Experiment 1 established scale of violation as a …
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Pragmatic constructivism in Higher Education
… Constructivism’ and instead advocates ‘Pragmatic Constructivism’. This is defined by the author within this review as an instructional framework to guide the constructivist development of learning.The second, long running point of difference is between research and teaching. This is an …
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The Pragmatic Problem of Evil
… of the Problem of Evil at an Impasse?” and “A Pragmatic Argument against Reliance in God to Prevent Horrendous Evils.” The first part of this paper completes an analysis of formulations around the problem of evil, analysis of logical and evidential arguments from evil, and analysis of theist …
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A pragmatic account of control
… of control sentences can best be explained pragmatically, i.e., in terms of the beliefs and assumptions which the listener makes about what the speaker intended by the utterance. A listener identifies an entity as the referent of the unexpressed subject of infinitival and gerund complements …
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Joint inference in pragmatic reasoning
… Bayesian cognitive science to formalize Gricean pragmatic reasoning [29, 28, 36, 51]. In the first part of this work, we discuss several phenomena which pose a challenge to these accounts of pragmatics: M-implicatures [45] and embedded implicatures which violate Hurford's constraint [49, 16]. …
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Pragmatic ability in children with early onset brain damage and children with pragmatic language impairnent
The general purpose was to study pragmatically related abilities in children with early-onset brain damage, i.e. children with cerebral palsy (CP) and children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus (SBH), and in a group of children with pragmatic language impairment (PLI). In study I and III children …
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Supporting decision analysis : a pragmatic approach
… support is to improve problem solving. With a pragmatic approach in mind, two normative models are compared on the basis of the assumptions they make about a decision maker. Further, how these alternative techniques have worked in practice is discussed. In order to make use of such methods, …
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Failure logic modelling: a pragmatic approach
… without modification, adequately address key pragmatic challenges posed by extant characteristics of modern large-scale and complex safety-critical systems. To address such challenges two key contributions are made through extensions to the metamodel. Firstly, these extensions enable the …
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A pragmatic testbed for distributed systems
Distributed systems have become ubiquitous and they continue their growth through a range of services. With advances in resource virtualization technology such as Virtual Machines and software containers, developers no longer require high-end servers to test and develop distributed software. Even …
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The Pragmatic Foundation of Symbolic Interactionism
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Counterfactives: A Pragmatic Analysis of Presupposition
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Causal Foundations for Pragmatic Data Science
A key goal of scientific discovery is the acquisition of knowledge that is practically useful for societal endeavors, such as the development of medicine or the design of fruitful economic policies. In this thesis, I place front and center the role that scientific models play in the process of …
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Pragmatic Software Architecture Visualization with Web Technology
Im Bereich der modellgetriebenen Softwareentwicklung (MDE) beschreiben Modelle das Verhalten von Systemen und können die Form von Diagrammen annehmen. In der Softwareentwicklung setzen große Projekte häufig Softwarearchitekturen zur Modularisierung ein. Grafische Architekturmodelle vereinen beide …
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Pragmatic referring functions as Montague semantic operators
… of semantics, but rather a subdomain of pragmatics. That is, knowledge about the meaning of words is not part of one's knowledge of the language, but rather part of one's knowledge of the world. This distinction marks the traditional difference between dictionary and encyclopedia. One …
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Using mathematics in physics: A pragmatic approach
… In contrast to this, I then defend a pragmatic view in which representation is only one of the uses of mathematics in physics, and which stresses the use of mathematics in experimental and technological contexts. I argue that physicists can make mathematics useful in concrete …
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Enhanced minimum variance optimisation: a pragmatic approach
Since the establishment of Markowitz's theory, numerous studies have been carried out over the past six decades or so that cover the benefits, limitations, modifications and enhancements of Mean Variance (MV) optimisation. This study endeavours to extend on this, by means of adding factors to the …
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A pragmatic study on verbal irony in Spanish.
A pragmatic study on verbal irony in Spanish.
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The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism
… London, for instance, Crane innovatively employs pragmatic elements that work against the very deterministic frameworks that structure his stories. By tracing the dialectic between these theories, I demonstrate how Crane’s fiction not only reveals the destructive relationship between nature and …
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Truth and reality in Jürgen Habermas' Pragmatic Realism
The present work is divided into three sections. The first (only in Italian) is an analysis of some of the main philosophical issues about the notions of reality and truth. The second section provides both a historical reconstruction and a theoretical discussion of the notion of truth in the …
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