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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"rule-following"”.
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Experimental Analyses of Rule-Following: Methodological and Clinical Implications
… the methodological and clinical implications of rulefollowing behaviour. The research program comprised eight experimental studies, including the match-to-sample methodology and the use of radiant heat apparatus. Chapter 1 provides a review of the available literature on rule-following, including …
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Hayekian insights into intra-firm coordination: exploring the rule following perspective
… examine intra-firm coordination by individuals following common rules of behaviour. Individuals within a firm have to coordinate their activities where each has knowledge that others in the firm do not have; there is a division of knowledge, just as there is a division of labour. Rule following …
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Always follow the instructions: rules and rule following in visual art
… machine is explored through a discussion of its rules and instructions and its codes and inscriptions. The text machine is defined independently of particular instances of its making, of specific technologies, but for the practice part of this submission text machines are simulated by computer. …
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Resolute readings of later Wittgenstein and the challenge of avoiding hierarchies in philosophy
… this also holds for the problems involving rule-following and meaning: the clarification of the grammar of “rule” and “meaning” has no foundational status – it is nothing on which the method of clarifying the grammar of expressions as such were meant to in any way rely on. The lead question …
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Discord and fragmentation in Eritrean politics, 1941-1981
… from 1941 to 1981. The fifty years of colonial rule following the imposition of Italian rule in 1890 failed to forge a common identity among the various communities in Eritrea. Lacking a common bond which could transcend sectarian views and confessional interests, the political forces which …
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The Private Language Problem
… wave is seen to center upon the concept of rule-following, and to engender charges of objectionable conventionalism (or nominalism).
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APPLYING MATCHING EQUATION TO PITCH SELECTION IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
… pitchers, behavior may be explained by rule following behavior or be impacted by distant reinforcers such as salary. All 21 groups demonstrated a bias for fastballs as well as 119 of the 144 individual pitchers. The results extend the use of the GME to natural contexts and suggest an …
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Judge-made Law
… Rather, judges create them through their rule-following actions. The term rule-following1 suggests that the action presupposes certain pre-existing rules. If the action in question follows those rules, such actions might not sound capable of generating any new rules. Instead, judge-made …
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and sports
… and emotional reactivity, coupled with decreased rule following behavior and affiliation with teammates and coaches, when compared to non-ADHD boys. Additionally, the ADHD cohort engaged in team sports for a significantly briefer duration when compared to the control group, with the ADHD cohort …
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Kripkenstein and Non-Reductionism about Meaning-Facts
… insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on rule-following. The reconstruction prominently featured a sceptical challenge which soon was recognised as a new and very radical form of scepticism. According to the challenge there is no fact of the matter which constitutes meaning. As there is no …
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Investigating the Use of a Positive Variation of the Good Behavior Game in a High School Setting
… variation of the GBG in which teachers attend to rule-following behavior, as opposed to the original version of the game in which teachers attend to rule-breaking behavior. In previous studies, researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of the GBG in decreasing problematic behavior and/or …
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AN EMERGING GROUNDED THEORY OF FACULTY HIRING PROCESSES IN UNIONIZED COMPREHENSIVE UNIVERSITIES
… position faculty hiring as an outcome of rule following decisions and risk response rather than rational choice. Part-time faculty hiring is found to function as an organizational release valve, which circumvents role tension of the sort experienced among department, college, and …
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Judging by a Different Standard? Examining the Role of Rationality in Assessments of Mental Capacity
… Drawing an analogy with Wittgenstein’s rule-following considerations, it is submitted that the constitutive normativity of belief need not be codified in order to exert a genuine constraint on intentional behaviour. Rather, the norms of belief ought to be construed as emerging from …
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Constituting games : an analysis of game rules and game-processes.
… examples of activities governed by formal rules. Drawing upon ethnomethodology and figurational sociology, this project provides an analysis of the constituting of games and identifies the inadequacies of this conventional formalist wisdom. Applying and elaborating upon Garfinkel's work, …
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Wittgenstein and irreducible uncertainty: therapeutic implications for education of a non-local model of mind
… hidden mental states can not explain human rule-following. Even if we had access to the full array of mental states and a complete list of previous examples it is argued that there could still be no local e planation or prediction of future behaviour. Instead the cause in non-local through …
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Power-Conferring Norms and Law's Normative Guidance
… of human beings – our ability to be engaged in rule-following activities that establish normative order.
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From ambivalence to activism: Australia and the negotiation of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
… in concert than each does individually - for the rule-following behaviour of nation-states. Beginning in Chapter One with a critique of the NPT and the regime of institutions and understandings which surround it, the study moves, in Chapter Two, to a review of the domestic and international …
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Patient-Provider Encounter: The Contemporary Cameroonian Story
… My field research sought answers to the following questions: How do the assumptions of the Western medical model intersect with those of the native culture in patient-provider interactions? How do Cameroonian providers and patients conceptualize health and illness? How does Cameroonian …
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"You are My Son": A Study of Mark's Use of Psalm 2 as Early Christian Theologizing
… supreme exaltation and sharing in God’s kingdom rule. Following a discussion of appropriate methods and limitations (Chapter 1), we examine the Second Psalm’s original setting and function, and its interpretation in early Jewish literature (Chapter 2), finding that many of these texts exhibit …
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Adolescent smoking and social norms: an appraisal of theory and application of social norms to understand risk factors for smoking and sensitivity to normative influence
… norms sensitivity using a modified version of a rule-following task.<br/><br/>Method: Chapter 2 is a theory landscaping review (supported by systematic methodological elements) of studies that utilise theoretical models to examine the role of social influence in adolescent smoking. The analytical …