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Showing 1 to 20 of 492 for “"testimony"”.
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Testimony Without Belief
… the traditional view in the epistemology of testimony claim that testimony is primarily a way in which speakers transmit beliefs to hearers. If this is the case, then in order to transmit the belief that p, the speaker must be in possession of a belief that p. Other epistemologists reject …
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Partial belief and expert testimony
My dissertation investigates two questions from within a partial belief framework: First, when and how should deference to experts or other information sources be qualified? Second, how closely is epistemology related to other philosophical fields, such as metaphysics, ethics, and decision theory? …
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You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony
… craft essay titled “Shapes of Refusal: The Anti-Testimony and Realizing Hope through Form” and a multi-modal manuscript consisting of hybrid poetic forms titled You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony. The creative writing manuscript is a re-imagining of admissible evidence based on the needs of …
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Witness testimony : the communication of remembered information
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Communication,
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Homing to Authenticity: Iowa Testimony in "Gilead"
… for the future to his young son and wife. Ames’s testimony encourages Iowans and readers in general about the value of contemplating past history since the stories in Gilead demonstrate a sense of eternal connection with humanity. Additionally, Gilead’s “homing in” memories and reflections …
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Homing to Authenticity: Iowa Testimony in "Gilead"
… for the future to his young son and wife. Ames’s testimony encourages Iowans and readers in general about the value of contemplating past history since the stories in Gilead demonstrate a sense of eternal connection with humanity. Additionally, Gilead’s “homing in” memories and reflections …
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Eyewitness testimony by adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Eyewitness testimony is central to the criminal justice system, and may include that given by individuals with ASD. Despite the memory difficulties that are experienced by people with ASD, sparse research to date has examined the reliability of their testimony. This thesis presents a series of …
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The topos of divine testimony in Luke-Acts.
… addresses the concept of authoritative testimony in Luke-Acts. Specifically, the dissertation argues that ancient audiences would have understood particular elements in the narrative of Luke-Acts to be instances of the topos of divine testimony, considered by ancient rhetoricians to be …
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Theatre of Testimony: An investigation in devising Asylum
… refugee issues are seeking to incorporate the testimony of asylum seekers into their work. This necessitates a need to critically reflect on the influences that shape and structure the staging of testimonies. This study argues that increased migration and the mounting number arrivals of asylum …
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Influence of social closeness on children’s trust in testimony
… influenced children’s epistemic trust in others’ testimony. Three- to 5-year-olds met two puppet informants, one of whom matched their preferences and physical attributes. Children were encouraged to request novel objects’ names from either informant, after which both informants provided …
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Jurors' Perceptions of Gender Differences in Expert Witness Testimony
… determination of insanity. Later, eye witness testimony (especially of children as witnesses) was challenged in the courtroom using psychological principles. Children are increasingly used to testify as alleged abuse victims. This can result in a conflict between the accused person's right to …
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Impact of Interest Group Testimony on Lawmaking in Congress
… and the other at the influence wielded by the testimony they give in those hearings. A unique data set is developed for each model. The access dataset consists of attempts by interest groups to testify before House committees during the 105th, 106th, 107th and 108th sessions of Congress, and …
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Battered woman syndrome: Juror common understanding and expert testimony
… two broad questions related to the use of expert testimony in battered women's homicide cases. First, what do laypersons know about battering, and in what ways is that knowledge tied to conceptually similar attitudinal constructs, such as sex roles, adversarial beliefs about women, and support for …
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The dilemma of mind in contemporary Buddhism : some British testimony
Progress in neuroscience over the last half-century casts doubt on the religious intuition that the mind is a non-material entity. Without some dialogue between religion and science in order to resolve differences of fact and value, the dilemma of the competing plausibility of scientific and …
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Expert witness testimony in jury verdicts when battered women kill
… jury verdicts when traumatic brain injury expert testimony is provided and (b) examine the relationship between the verdicts when battered women syndrome expert witness testimony is provided, in Rowan University undergraduate students (N = 100). Students were provided with experimental packets, …
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The rise of female testimony on the early modern stage
This thesis explores the rise of female testimony on the early modern stage. Focusing on plays dating from the 1580s to the early 1620s, my research considers how the phenomenon of women’s testimony contributed to broader developments in early modern theatrical culture – particularly through …
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