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Alternate conceptions of metaphysics

Metaphilosophy
AbstractMetaphysics is the inquiry having categorial form as its aim. Once all but defunct, metaphysics has now revived, though without disciplinary focus. Nine points of entry dominate current studies, each separate from and largely oblivious to the others.
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The Alternative Conception of Language

2017
Drawing on ideas of Wittgenstein’s and of Merleau-Ponty’s, this chapter presents a conception of language on which the method of cases—even after contextualist amendments—is fundamentally misguided and liable to lead us astray. The alternative conception combines context-sensitivity with pragmatist non-representationalism, or what Huw Price has called “
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Alternate Fusion Concepts

1997
The most important long term environmental problem is how to supply the energy needs of expanding populations without the destructive side effects of global warming, water and air pollution and radioactivity. Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion involving D-T reactions in a Tokamak is the only long term program currently supported by US-DOE and by the ...
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An Alternative Concept of Computability

1998
The formation of the current concept of computability (recursivity) is one of the major achievements of twentieth-century logical theory (see e.g. Davis 1965, Rogers 1967, ch. 1). What is especially impressive about this notion is its robustness.
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Alternative Methods and Concepts

1979
We have previously discussed chemical bonding exclusively in terms of a L.C.A.O. molecular orbital model. This is by no means the only approach, although it has gradually established itself as the most popular for inorganic chemists. In this chapter we discuss other models of chemical bonding, both theoretical and phenomenological, consider the ...
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Alternative Minimization Concepts

1998
In Chapters 5 and 6 “classical” methods for BDD minimization that are supported by most available packages and recent refinements of these methods have been presented.
Rolf Drechsler, Bernd Becker
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Alternative Coding of Concepts

1988
Using the technique of priming on a matching paradigm (Exp. 1), and a sentence verification task (Exp. 2), we observed facilitation effects of either word primes (superordinate category noun or prototype noun) or sentence primes (reflecting perceptual or functional properties of the categories) on reaction times to pictures and words.
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Teachers' ability to diagnose and deal with alternative student conceptions of evolution

Science Education, 2022
Tim Hartelt, Helge Martens, Nina Minkley   +2 more
exaly  

Alternative Conceptions of the Spiritual

Analytic philosophy of religion and philosophical theology are known for being focused on issues pertaining specifically to Judeo-Christian theism.This volume answers the call for novel work on a broader range of ideas about the spiritual, engaging with key concepts and neglected recent literature from other traditions.
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Discussion of alternative concepts

1997
The previous sections analysed the pros and cons of advantageous monetary policy instruments in Europe from a variety of perspectives. Some of these arguments are no longer suited to the situation of the institutions today, but in many cases, the weighting to be attached to controversial positions is also a question of political objectives. To simplify
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