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Lapsing Quickly into Fatalism: Bell on Backward Causation [PDF]
Entropy, 2021 This is a dialogue between Huw Price and Travis Norsen, loosely inspired by a letter that Price received from J. S. Bell in 1988. The main topic of discussion is Bell’s views about retrocausal approaches to quantum theory and their relevance to ...
Travis Norsen, Huw Price
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The interaction between frailty and patient characteristics and its association with hospital-related adverse events in older adults [PDF]
BMC GeriatricsBackground Frailty is a state of increased vulnerability to stressors that predisposes individuals to adverse outcomes. Hospital-related adverse events (AEs) are complications not directly caused by patients’ pre-existing conditions.
Faris Alotaibi +4 more
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Vis-à-vis: Signification does not necessitate backward causation
Sign Systems StudiesThe following paper examines the metaphysics of signification in John Deely’s work and presents two arguments: (1) that Deely’s metaphysics sanction backwards causation in signification, and (2) that there may be a more parsimonious view that can be ...
Claudio J. Rodríguez Higuera
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Putnam; Fact/Value Dichotomy and Fact Constructivism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2021 Hillary Putnam is one of the contemporary philosophers who study the fact/value dichotomy. In his thoughts, these two concepts are interpretation and even conceptually not separate, a notion named instructive pragmatism.
Ahmad Ebadi, Mohammad Emdadi Masouleh
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Exploring Time Travel Rules in Time Travel Films
CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2023 Throughout film history, time travel has been an intriguing concept revisited time and again by film productions, creating a universe of time travel principles and becoming a discipline of scientific import.
Jarvis Tyrell Curry
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Dr. Bertlmann’s Socks in a Quaternionic World of Ambidextral Reality”’
IEEE Access, 2021 In this paper, I respond to a critique of one of my papers previously published in this journal, entitled ‘Dr. Bertlmann’s socks in a quaternionic world of ambidextral reality.’ The geometrical framework presented in my paper is ...
Joy Christian
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BMJ Open, 2021 Objectives The objective of this study was to systematically review and synthesise qualitative papers exploring views and experiences of acne and its treatments among people with acne, their carers and healthcare professionals (HCPs).Design Systematic ...
Ingrid Muller +5 more
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Judgment and Decision Making, 2018 Backward magical contagion describes instances in which individuals (sources) express discomfort or pleasure when something connected to them (medium; e.g., hair, a diary) falls into the possession of a negatively- or positively-perceived individual ...
Paul Rozin +2 more
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Quantum correlations are weaved by the spinors of the Euclidean primitives [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 The exceptional Lie group E8 plays a prominent role in both mathematics and theoretical physics. It is the largest symmetry group associated with the most general possible normed division algebra, namely, that of the non-associative real octonions, which—
Joy Christian
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The Paradoxes of Time Travel: 50 Years Later [PDF]
Organon FDavid Lewis set the agenda for philosophical theorizing about time travel fifty years ago with his landmark paper "The Paradoxes of Time Travel". In honor of that anniversary, I review some of the central themes of his paper and discuss a few of the ...
Ryan Wasserman
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