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An efficient two-tier causal protocol for mobile distributed systems. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Causal ordering is a useful tool for mobile distributed systems (MDS) to reduce the non-determinism induced by three main aspects: host mobility, asynchronous execution, and unpredictable communication delays. Several causal protocols for MDS exist. Most
Eduardo Lopez Dominguez +3 more
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Sobre a tese de que a bivalência implica o determinismo causal, do estoicismo ao aristotelismo
Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2021 According to Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Categories, the Platonic philosopher Claudius Nicostratus (fl. mid-2nd c. A.D.) challenges Aristotle’s claim in the Categories to the effect that statements about future contingents are neither true nor ...
Paulo Ferreira
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The Compatibility of Free Will and Determinism in Modern Western Compatibilists and Mulla Sadra [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2014 The significance of determinism/ free will dilemma is clear by all enlightened mind as our approach in this regard has a straight influence on our theoretical worldview and scientific orientations in individual and social life.
Yousof Shaghool, Fakhrossadat Alavi
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Evaluation of Frankfurt's Viewpoint in the Face of Indirect Consequence Argument [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2017 The different versions of van Inwagen’s indirect argument for the incompatibility of causal determinism and moral responsibility asserts that (1) the causal necessity and determination indicates that human actions are the results of past events and the ...
Javad Danesh
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Causality and determination revisited [PDF]
Synthese, 2021 AbstractIt seems to be a platitude that there must be a close connection between causality and the laws of nature: the laws somehow cover in general what happens in each specific case of causation. But so-called singularists disagree, and it is often thought that the locus classicus for that kind of dissent is Anscombe's famous Causality & ...
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Biomolecules, 2023 Practically unknown outside of China, the “endometrial determinism” theory was proposed to account for the apparent gap between the relatively low prevalence of endometriosis and nearly universal retrograde menstruation.
Sun-Wei Guo +2 more
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Molinist Gunslingers Redux: A Friendly Response to Greg Welty
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018 Philosopher Greg Welty contributed a chapter entitled ‘Molinist Gunslingers: God and the Authorship of Sin’, to a book devoted to answering the charge that Calvinism makes God the author of sin (Calvinism and the Problem of Evil).
Keathley Kenneth D.
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Determinism and Divine Agency According to Allamah Tabatabaei [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018 The way God intervenes in the natural world is considered a major and long-standing issue in the realm of theology and philosophy of religion where efforts to resolve it has led to proposing various and, at times, opposing views, spanning from ...
Seyed Mohammad Faghih +1 more
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Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2022 In this article, I present and explain ten different possible meanings of a chance event – some ontological, some epistemic – and provide examples whenever possible.
Alexander Maar
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Improving Causal Determination
Global Epidemiology, 2019 Holistic expert judgments about causality are widely used in regulatory risk assessments, with causal determination categories being used to summarize huge amounts of complex evidence and to help inform and drive major regulatory decisions. The causal determination categories used typically cover a relatively narrow range (e.g., from “causal ...
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