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Aristotle’s Argument from Truth in Metaphysics Γ 4 [PDF]
, 2019 Some of Aristotle’s statements about the indemonstrability of the Principle of Non-Contradiction (PNC) in Metaphysics Γ 4 merit more attention. The consensus seems to be that Aristotle provides two arguments against the demonstrability of the PNC, with ...
Clay, Graham
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Fundraising as Contracting: Why Nonprofits Accept In‐Kind Donations
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In‐kind (nonmonetary) donations are a popular form of philanthropy that have received much less scholarly attention than monetary gifts. This study documents the prevalence of types of in‐kind giving and associated organizational practices, then explores links between the perceptions of nonprofit managers, organizational practices, and ...
Elizabeth Searing +3 more
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Baby Gammy: the responsibilities of ART professionals in international surrogacy [PDF]
, 2014 The 'Baby Gammy' case has sparked worldwide interest and comment. At the time of writing at least some of the 'facts' of what happened, when, and why remain contested.
Blyth, Eric
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do cultural stereotypes influence the likelihood that minority street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) will actively represent marginalized subgroups within their ethnocultural community? While existing scholarship on representative bureaucracy has focused on the conditions under which minority SLBs engage in active representation, this study ...
Sohad Amaria, Einat Lavee, Nissim Cohen
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Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson +2 more
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The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
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What to believe about your belief that you're in the good case [PDF]
, 2019 Going about our daily lives in an orderly manner requires us, once we are aware of them, to dismiss many metaphysical possibilities. We take it for granted that we are not brains in vats, or living in the Matrix, or in an extended dream.
Worsnip, Alex
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Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Existing systems of university research ethics are often criticized by those in the qualitative research tradition. A common thread is that ethics cannot be fully anticipated before the research begins, as is expected by most institutional review boards.
Deana Simonetto, Antony Puddephatt
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Cohabitation: Computation at 70, Cognition at 20 [PDF]
, 2009 Zenon Pylyshyn cast cognition's lot with computation, stretching the Church/Turing Thesis to its limit: We had no idea how the mind did anything, whereas we knew computation could do just about everything. Doing it with images would be like doing it with
Harnad, Stevan
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Teaching varies with task complexity in wild chimpanzees
, 2020 Understanding social influences on how apes acquire tool behaviors can help us model the evolution of culture and technology in humans. Humans scaffold novice tool skills with diverse strategies, including the transfer of tools between individuals ...
Bernstein-Kurtycz, L. +6 more
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