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The Colors of a #climatescam: An Exploration of Anti-Climate Change Graphs on Twitter [PDF]
Climate change is a looming and present threat. Although reported and explored in traditional media, there is still a general ignorance regarding its acceleration and its real-world consequences.
Elizabeth Zak
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Emerging infectious diseases: coping with uncertainty [PDF]
The world’s scientific community must be in a state of constant readiness to address the threat posed by newly emerging infectious diseases. Whether the disease in question is SARS in humans or BSE in animals, scientists must be able to put into action ...
Cummings, L
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The main goal of this paper is to propose a dynamic mapping for knowledge and ignorance mobilization in science research and innovation. An underlying argument is that ‘knowledge mobilization’ science policy agendas in countries such as Canada and the ...
Joanne Gaudet
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KRITIK ATAS PANDANGAN WILLIAM M. WATT TERHADAP SEJARAH PENULISAN AL-QUR’AN
The study of the Qur'an has been a topic of interest to many circles, excluding Western scholars. Many of the themes they promote are generally related to the authenticity of the Qur'an.
Muhammad Alwi
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Insolubility Theorems and EPR Argument [PDF]
I wish to thank in particular Arthur Fine for very perceptive comments on a previous draft of this paper. Many thanks also to Theo Nieuwenhuizen for inspiration, to Max Schlosshauer for correspondence, to two anonymous referees for shrewd observations ...
A Bassi +19 more
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The Skepticism of Skeptical Theism [PDF]
Skeptical theism is a type of reply to arguments from evil against God’s existence. The skeptical theist declines to accept a premiss of some such argument, professing ignorance, for example, about whether God is justified in permitting certain evils or ...
Edward Wierenga
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Rawlsian Individuals: Justice, Experiments, and Complexity [PDF]
John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice is examined from the perspective of experimental methods in economics and complex adaptive systems simulations. This paper first discusses the justice principle selection process in Rawls’s representation of it as a ...
Davis, John B.
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Political membership in the contractarian defense of cosmopolitanism [PDF]
This article assesses the recent use of contractarian strategies for the justification of cosmopolitan distributive principles. It deals in particular with the cosmopolitan critique of political membership and tries to reject the claim that political ...
Barry +24 more
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Jumping to a Conclusion: Fallacies and Standards of Proof
Five errors that fit under the category of jumping to a conclusion are identified: (1) arguing from premises that are insufficient as evidence to prove a conclusion (2) fallacious argument from ignorance, (3) arguing to a wrong conclusion, (4) using ...
Douglas Walton, Thomas F. Gordon
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"Utrum figura dictionis sit fallacia in dictione. et quod non videtur". A Taxonomic Puzzle or how Medieval Logicians Came to Account for an Odd Question by an Impossible Answer [PDF]
One of the singularities of Latin exegesis of Aristotle’s Sophistici elenchi, is that it arbitrarily brought together two families of fallacies, the «figure of speech» and the «accident», despite the fact that they are on either side of the divide ...
Gazziero, Leone
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