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The Skepticism of Skeptical Theism [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2019 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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Rank-Weighted Utilitarianism and the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
, 2020 Lara Buchak argues for a version of rank-weighted utilitarianism that assigns greater weight to the interests of the worse off. She argues that our distributive principles should be derived from the preferences of rational individuals behind a veil of ...
Nebel, Jacob M.
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Should we estimate plant cover in percent or on ordinal scales? [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2023 Question: We explored the error resulting from different methods for recording the cover of plants in vegetation plots, specifically the direct estimation of percent cover vs.
Jürgen Dengler, Iwona Dembicz
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Insolubility Theorems and EPR Argument [PDF]
, 2012 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 ...
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Jumping to a Conclusion: Fallacies and Standards of Proof
Informal Logic, 2009 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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Experiments in Distributive Justice and Their Limits [PDF]
, 2016 Mark Pennington argues political systems should be decentralized in order to facilitate experimental learning about distributive justice. Pointing out the problems with Pennington's Hayekian formulation, I reframe his argument as an extension of the ...
Bennett, Michael
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Socrates on Why We Should Inquire [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines whether Socrates provides his interlocutors with good reasons to seek knowledge of what virtue is, reasons that they are in a position to appreciate.
Ebrey, David
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Emerging infectious diseases: coping with uncertainty [PDF]
, 2009 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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De l’art d’argumenter et de convaincre : Alejo Venegas ou la dialectique de la persuasion
Atalaya, 2019 This work focuses on the argumentative techniques that Alejo Venegas de Busto, a 16th century moralist from Toledo, uses in his writings. The analysis of a corpus of various texts written by this author, from the most widespread to the least known ...
Marc Zuili
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Rancière and the poetics of the social sciences [PDF]
, 2009 This article reviews the significance of Jacques Rancière’s work for methodological debates in the social sciences, and education specifically. It explores the implications of framing methodology as an aesthetic endeavour, rather than as the applied ...
Pelletier, Caroline
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