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Impossible Antecedents and Their Consequences: Some Thirteenth-Century Arabic Discussions [PDF]
The principle that a necessarily false proposition implies any proposition, and that a necessarily true proposition is implied by any proposition, was apparently first propounded in twelfth century Latin logic, and came to be widely, though not ...
El-Rouayheb, Khaled
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City Slicker or Country Bumpkin?—Distinguishing Urban and Rural Residents From Subtle Facial Cues
ABSTRACT Stereotypes characterize urban and rural residents as differing in traits, values and social outcomes. Here, we examined how people's stereotypes about urban and rural residents differ, testing their validity using a lens model. Results showed that participants detected whether people resided in urban or rural areas from photos across three ...
McLean G. Morgan +2 more
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Hegel's Theory of Absolute Spirit: Reflexive Practices in Hegel's Social Philosophy
Abstract This paper argues that Hegel's concept of absolute spirit should be understood as central to his social philosophy. Rather than designating a metaphysical endpoint, absolute spirit refers to reflexive practices—art, religion, and philosophy—through which societies critically engage with the norms and assumptions that structure social life ...
Markus Gante
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Methods in Psychological Research [PDF]
Psychologists collect empirical data with various methods for different reasons. These diverse methods have their strengths as well as weaknesses. Nonetheless, it is possible to rank them in terms of different critieria.
Chow, Siu L.
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Abstract It is well‐recognized in the sciences that a multitude of nonequivalent models are used by researchers to fulfill a range of goals, even for the same target system, a result known broadly as model pluralism. The possibility of the same form of pluralism occurring in logic, however, has not been adequately considered.
Ben Martin
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In this article, we examined how Alfarab approached to the subject of categorical syllogism within scope of his works entitled “Kitāb al-Kıyās al-Sağīr” and “Kitāb al-Kıyās”.
Halil İmamoğlugil
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Using E‐portfolios to Identify Threshold Concepts in Removable Prosthodontics
ABSTRACT Introduction Training in removable prosthodontics traditionally includes a preclinical laboratory component that precedes clinical exposure. Students struggle to relate the laboratory component to clinical work, because successful learning in removable prosthodontics involves many threshold concepts, some of which have been identified ...
Edward Waters, Delyse Leadbeatter
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Mitsch's order and inclusion for binary relations and partitions [PDF]
Mitsch's natural partial order on the semigroup of binary relations is here characterised by equations in the theory of relation algebras. The natural partial order has a complex relationship with the compatible partial order of inclusion, which is ...
FitzGerald, D. G.
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From the Margins to the Center: The Transformative Promise of Philosophy for Children
Abstract What began as an innovative idea in the late 1960s—the recognition that even very young children are philosophically disposed—is no longer considered novel. While philosophy for children has transitioned from a fledgling initiative to a worldwide movement, it remains on the margins of education. In this article, we look back at key initiatives
Maughn Rollins Gregory +2 more
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From Logical Calculus to Logical Formality—What Kant Did with Euler’s Circles [PDF]
John Venn has the “uneasy suspicion” that the stagnation in mathematical logic between J. H. Lambert and George Boole was due to Kant’s “disastrous effect on logical method,” namely the “strictest preservation [of logic] from mathematical encroachment ...
Lu-Adler, Huaping
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