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Deterministic Theories

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Determinism is (roughly) the thesis that the past determines the future. But efforts to define it precisely have exposed deep methodological disagreements. Standard possible‐worlds formulations of determinism presuppose an “agreement” relation between worlds, but this relation can be understood in multiple ways, none of which is particularly ...
Hans Halvorson, J. B. Manchak, James Owen Weatherall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research on the optimal selection method for railway line routes in complex and challenging mountainous areas taking into account ecological protection. [PDF]

PLoS One
Han F, Luo Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

High Standards

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Evaluative adjectives are gradable. The standard for falling under a gradable adjective “F” is either context‐relative or absolute. Some philosophers have recently used general linguistic tests to argue that “rational” and (moral) “good” are maximum‐degree absolute gradable adjectives: Only what's perfectly morally good strictly counts as ...
Pekka Väyrynen
wiley   +1 more source

Conscious simultaneity with continuous motion: a measure-theoretic resolution of the hard problem. [PDF]

Front Hum Neurosci
Sanfey J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Re‐Imagining the Epistemic Possibilities of GPT for Public Administration Research in Competitive Settings

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is desirable for the public sector. Yet understanding what and how some innovation projects survive and thrive in a competitive landscape—or public sector innovation—is often challenging. The challenges not only rest in the invisibility of the features of an innovation to human eyes but also in the lack of their accessibility for ...
Yanto Chandra, Jianxiang Tan
wiley   +1 more source

A mathematical framework for the quantitative analysis of genetic buffering. [PDF]

PLoS Genet
Karagiannis J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Navigating the Power of the Purse—Fiscal Irresponsibility, Process Failures, and the New Constitutional Stress Test

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The federal government, and its budget process, are facing unprecedented challenges. The federal debt is at historic levels, the process is in disarray, and the constitutional balance of powers is being challenged as never before. The debt, driven by growth in entitlement spending, stands at $38 trillion and is projected to continue to grow if
Carolyn Bourdeaux, G. William Hoagland, Philip G. Joyce, Thomas S. Kahn, Elaine Y. Lu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Similarity measure for intuitionistic fuzzy sets and its applications in pattern recognition and multimodal medical image fusion. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Patel A, Gupta D, Gopalakrishnan EA, Sasidharan D, Sowmya V, Zakariah M, Almazyad AS.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On the Naturalistic Grounds of Grounding

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether grounding can be naturalized. We adopt a tripartite framework—Ocat (scientific catalogue of existents), Otyp (ontological types), and metaphysics (natures/modal profiles)—and show that classifying as such the relata of putative grounding claims forces a dilemma.
Raoni Arroyo, Jonas R. Becker Arenhart
wiley   +1 more source

Co-design methodology for rapid prototyping of modular robots in care settings. [PDF]

Front Robot AI
Colle A, Donaldson K, Dragone M.
europepmc   +1 more source