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Denying the Antecedent: The Fallacy That Never Was, or Sometimes Isn’t?

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2016
: In this paper we examine two challenges to the orthodox understanding of the fallacy of denying the antecedent. One challenge is to say that passages thought to express the fallacy can usually be given an interpretation on which they express valid ...
Luis Duarte d’Almeida, Euan MacDonald
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Cognitive consequences of affirming the self: The relationship between self-affirmation and object construal [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2009
Previous research suggests that affirming one's important values is a powerful way of protecting one's general self integrity, allowing non-defensive processing of self-relevant information. In a series of four studies linking self-affirmation with construal level, we find that in addition to any self buffering effect, thinking about one's values and ...
Cheryl J, Wakslak, Yaacov, Trope
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Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies

open access: yesThe Economic Journal, 2023
Abstract Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. In a laboratory experiment, we study three quota rules in tournaments that favour individuals whose performance is low, either due to discrimination, low productivity, or choice of a short working time.
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah   +3 more
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Racism, ideology, and affirmative action revisited: The antecedents and consequences of "principled objections" to affirmative action. [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002
In 2 studies, the antecedents and consequences of "principled objections" to affirmative action (specific, "race-neutral" reasons for opposing the policy) among Whites were examined. In Study 1. data from a probability sample of Los Angeles adults indicated the following: (a) that principled-objection endorsement was driven not merely by race-neutral ...
Christopher M, Federico, Jim, Sidanius
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MODUS PONENS AND MODUS TOLLENS: THEIR VALIDITY/INVALIDITY IN NATURAL LANGUAGE ARGUMENTS

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2017
The precedent studies on the validity of Modus ponens and Modus tollens have been carried out with most regard to a major type of conditionals in which the conditional clause is a sufficient condition for the main clause.
Ri Yong-Sok
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Human Conditional Reasoning in Answer Set Programming

open access: yes, 2023
Given a conditional sentence "P=>Q" (if P then Q) and respective facts, four different types of inferences are observed in human reasoning. Affirming the antecedent (AA) (or modus ponens) reasons Q from P; affirming the consequent (AC) reasons P from Q ...
Sakama, Chiaki
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Evolution in the Valley of Illusions

open access: yes, 2020
This letter discusses the relationship between fitness and fitness landscapes in evolution, showing the difficulty in finding optimal solutions.  The idea that modern biology must be the result of evolution because it is fit is shown to be a case of
Holloway, Eric
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A Theological Reflection of ‘Imago Dei’ as a Response to ‘LGBTQ’ Advocates [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
The paper aims to engage a theological reflection of Imago Dei as a response to some of the claims of the LGBTQ movement. The reason is consequent to one of the Postmodern challenges, which is an assault challenging the sex of human beings as either male
Emmanuel Akande Owoeye
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Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Evidence from India [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
We examine how overall delivery of public goods (i.e., efficiency) is affected by affirmative action in elections, i.e., restricting candidate entry in elections to one population group. We argue that when group identities are salient, such restrictions on candidate entry need not necessarily reduce electoral competition.
Das, Sabyasachi   +2 more
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Inference in conditional probability logic [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
summary:An important field of probability logic is the investigation of inference rules that propagate point probabilities or, more generally, interval probabilities from premises to conclusions.
Kleiter, Gernot D.   +6 more
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