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Image of Fox in Khakas Culture: Late 19th – Mid-20th Centuries

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2020
Introduction. The article analyzes a key zoological image of fox in everyday life, socioregulative, and ritual practices of the Khakas people. Goals.
Venariy A. Burnakov
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David Hume's Reductionist Epistemology of Testimony [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
David Hume advances a reductionist epistemology of testimony: testimonial beliefs are justified on the basis of beliefs formed from other sources. This reduction, however, has been misunderstood.
Faulkner, P.
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Group belief

open access: yesJournal of Logic and Computation, 2020
AbstractWhile logical formalizations of group notions of knowledge such as common and distributed knowledge have received considerable attention in the literature, most approaches being based on modal logic, group notions of belief have received much less attention.
Ågotnes, Thomas, Wang, Yi N.
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Betting on Quantum Objects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Dutch book arguments have been applied to beliefs about the outcomes of measurements of quantum systems, but not to beliefs about quantum objects prior to measurement. In this paper, we prove a quantum version of the probabilists' Dutch book theorem that
Steeger, Jeremy
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Beyond the Split between Formal School Identity and Teachers’ Personal Worldviews: Towards an Inclusive (Christian) School Identity

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2018
Religious diversity within Dutch schools has greatly increased. We carried out an empirical study to offer insights into how secondary school teachers (try to) relate to the formal Protestant Christian identity of their school, the challenges they ...
Gerdien Bertram-Troost   +4 more
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Coronavirus conspiracy beliefs, mistrust, and compliance with government guidelines in England

open access: yesPsychological Medicine, 2020
Background An invisible threat has visibly altered the world. Governments and key institutions have had to implement decisive responses to the danger posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
D. Freeman   +11 more
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Non-parental caregivers, parents, and the school readiness of the children of Latino/a immigrants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
School readiness generally predicts trajectories of academic achievement over time, motivating efforts to support the development of school readiness skills by expanding access to and improving the quality of early childhood care and education.
Pivnick, Lilla Kármán
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Viy in Nikolai Gogol’s Novella and Related Mythological Creatures in Ukrainian Folklore

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This article examines Ukrainian folkloric parallels to Viy, a character in the horror novella of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. It is a formidable chthonic, demonic creature whose eyelids cover the eyes and need to be lifted, and the gaze sees what is ...
Kostyantyn Rakhno
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Beliefs, make-beliefs, and making believe that beliefs are not make-beliefs

open access: yesSynthese, 2021
In this paper I want to hold, first, that one may suitably reconstruct the relevant kind of mental representational states that fiction typically involves, make-beliefs, as contextually unreal beliefs that, outside fiction, are either matched or non-matched by contextually real beliefs.
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Debunking Arguments in Metaethics and Metaphysics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Evolutionary debunking arguments abound, but it is widely assumed that they do not arise for our perceptual beliefs about midsized objects, insofar as the adaptive value of our object beliefs cannot be explained without reference to the objects ...
Korman, Daniel Z.
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