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Life, but Not as We Know It: Why Fine‐Tuning Arguments Fail
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Definitions of “life” and theories of life are systematically neglected in arguments for and from fine‐tuning. Despite claims to be neutral about the definition of “life,” fine‐tuning arguments generally presuppose that life requires a form of structural complexity only afforded by physicochemical complexity of the sort with which we are ...
Joe Gough
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Being Biased and Knowing How to Reason
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explains how reasoning is action and not reflex. It then uses that theory to explain one form of knowing how to reason. Reasoning is thinking biased by knowledge. Drawing on Louise Antony's emphasis on bias as critical for dealing with underdetermination in induction, I show that underdetermination confronts all forms of reasoning ...
Wayne Wu
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Croatian Operational Research Review, 2019 This paper concerns the cost optimisation analysis of a discrete-time finite-capacity multiserver queueing system with Bernoulli feedback, synchronous multiple and single working vacations, balking, and reneging during both busy and working vacation ...
Lahcene Yahiaoui +2 more
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Joint Analysis of Served and Lost Customers in Busy Periods of MX/M/1/n Systems with Balking
MathematicsWe derive the joint probability-generating function of the number of customers served and the number of customers lost in busy periods of MX/M/1/n queueing systems with balking.
Fátima Ferreira +2 more
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Bullshitters, Liars and Bad Teachers: The Scope of Epistemic Malevolence
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is two‐fold. We argue against the received conception of epistemic malevolence and give a broader characterisation that, we argue, captures its real scope. We tackle the current notion of epistemic malevolence (EM) on three fronts. We claim that this notion fails to capture cases of EM that are (i) not knowledge directed (
Sam Dickson +2 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
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مجلة بغداد للعلومThe paper deals with the problem of queueing-inventory system that has uncertain service conditions, and it discusses the contribution of server availability and customer behaviours like balking and feedback that are also added in to the system ...
Indumathi P, Kathikeyan K
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Computer-aided design system for control moment gyroscope
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 Control moment gyroscope or two-axis balking gyroscope is used in spacecraft orientation systems. The control moment gyroscope is a complex electromechanical system with different parameters which connect by means of specific instant and inverse ...
Kostyuchenko Tamara, Indygasheva Nelya
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GDP and GDI Growth Accounting in the Open Economy: Multiplicative Fisher Decompositions
Review of International Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While most national statistical agencies still use chained Laspeyres indices in their national accounts, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and Statistics Canada have been at the forefront for the past two decades by using instead a superlative index—the Fisher index—when computing price and quantity indices for GDP and its components.
Ulrich Kohli
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