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Limitations and Justifications for Analogical Reasoning

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2006
Hofmann, Solbakk, and Holm's (2006) analysis of the use of analogies is an important contribution to the methods of bioethics scholarship.
Summer, Johnson, Ingrid, Burger
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Smoking, personality and reasons for smoking

Psychological Medicine, 1982
SynopsisThe relationships between smoking, reasons for smoking and personality were investigated in 98 cigarette smokers. Contrary to the usual findings, smoking did not relate to extraversion (E) but related instead to psychoticism (P). It is suggested that this relation is the true one, and previous findings have been due to a contaminated measure of
I C, McManus, S J, Weeks
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Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty: Reasons for Concern?

Orthopedic Clinics of North America, 2009
Two different minimally invasive percutaneous vertebral augmentation methods for cement application into the vertebral body for the management of symptomatic compression fractures without neurologic impairment have been developed, namely, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty.
DENARO, LUCA, LONGO UG, DENARO V.
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Local Reasons and Dialogues for Immanent Reasoning

2018
In this chapter we will provide the logical framework of dialogues for immanent reasoning, the dialogical framework incorporating features of Constructive Type Theory and making explicit the players’ reasons for asserting a proposition. We will therefore be using the material provided in Chaps.
Shahid Rahman, Zoe McConaughey, Ansten Klev, Nicolas Clerbout   +3 more
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Reasons for Action and Action for Reasons

2003
AbstractInvestigates the connection between motivation and reasons for action. It begins with a sketch of Donald Davidson's influential version of the view that reasons for action are states of mind. It then undermines some criticisms of a broadly Davidsonian view of action explanation, including objections by Rosalind Hursthouse and T. M.
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Costs of and Reasons for Obesity

Journal of the CardioMetabolic Syndrome, 2008
The purpose of this literature review was to identify and describe the cost of obesity, the contributing factors, and the use of taxation as a possible method of control of this epidemic in a Canadian setting. A review of the current literature found on the PubMed/MEDLINE services of the National Institutes of Health as well as an analysis of Web ...
Maciej, Witkos, Michelle, Uttaburanont, Christopher D, Lang, Rohit, Arora   +3 more
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Reasons for patients' discontent and litigation

Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, 2001
Introduction: Discontent and litigation among patients is a problem which increasingly preoccupies the medical profession. Aim: We aim to analyse the origin of discontent and litigation and to help avoiding these claims. Material: One hundred and seventy-eight medical expert opinions were evaluated, all made following examination of the complainant ...
H R, Krause, A, Bremerich, J, Rustemeyer
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Reasoning and Autobiographical Memory for Personality

Experimental Psychology, 2010
Certain problems are ambiguous and allow deductive or inductive conclusions, for example, If you follow this diet then you lose weight. Ann did not lose weight. Why not? Conscientious individuals who are less open to experience should focus on possibilities consistent with the premises, and make a deduction: Ann did not follow this diet.
Ascensión, Fumero, Carlos, Santamaría, P N, Johnson-Laird   +2 more
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Reasons for Action and Defeasibility*

2012
The main purpose of this essay is to answer a very general question that may be posed in the following terms: can reasons for action be defeasible? Any position regarding this issue will entirely depend on how the terms under consideration are understood.
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MORAL VIRTUE AND REASONS FOR ACTION

Philosophical Issues, 2009
Moral virtue is a central notion in ethics, and understanding it is a challenge for action theory and moral psychology. It is no easy task to provide an account of it, but even a plausible account of what moral virtue is leaves largely open the difficult question of what it is to act virtuously and the related question of how we can ensure that we do ...
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