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Extremely Tenuous, Dusty Terrestrial Atmospheres Remain Stable against Global Collapse: An Argument for Arid Planet Habitability in the Trappist-1 System

The Astrophysical Journal
The potential habitability of tidally locked planets orbiting M stars remains uncertain. However, recent observations with JWST and numerous theoretical studies investigating atmospheric evolution over time suggest that thick atmospheres (>1 bar) with ...
Victoria L. Hartwick, Melinda A. Kahre, Robert M. Haberle   +2 more
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The fruitful death of modal collapse arguments [PDF]

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2021
Modal collapse arguments are all the rage in certain philosophical circles as of late. The arguments purport to show that classical theism entails the absurdly fatalistic conclusion that everything exists necessarily. My first aim in this paper is bold: to put an end to action-based modal collapse arguments against classical theism. To accomplish this,
Joseph C Schmid, Schmid Joseph C
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If consciousness causes collapse, the zombie argument fails [PDF]

SynthÈse, 2020
Many non-physicalists, including Chalmers, hold that the zombie argument succeeds in rejecting the physicalist view of consciousness. Some non-physicalists, including, again, Chalmers, hold that quantum collapse interactionism (QCI), i.e., the idea that non-physical consciousness causes collapse of the wave function in phenomena such as quantum ...
Mousa Mohammadian
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Spatial distribution of sequential ventilation during mechanical ventilation of the uninjured lung: an argument for cyclical airway collapse and expansion [PDF]

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2010
Background Ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) is a recognized complication of mechanical ventilation. Although the specific mechanism by which mechanical ventilation causes lung injury remains an active area of study, the application of positive end ...
Altemeier William A, Polissar Nayak L, Sinclair Scott E   +2 more
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Rethinking Quine's Argument on the Collapse of Modal Distinctions

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1997
This paper asks us to rethink what a principle of substitution is and ought to be. The author points out that Quine's argument collapsing modal distinctions via provability of \(\square p\leftrightarrow p\) depends upon use of an unrestricted version of a principle of substitution for singular terms. The unrestricted principle holds: if \(t\) and \(t'\)
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Positive end-expiratory pressure alters the severity and spatial heterogeneity of ventilator-induced lung injury: An argument for cyclical airway collapse [PDF]

Journal of Critical Care, 2009
Ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) is a recognized complication of mechanical ventilation. Although the specific mechanism by which mechanical ventilation causes lung injury remains an active area of study, both alveolar overdistension and cyclical airway collapse and recruitment have been suggested as contributing causes.
Hen-I Lin, William A Altemeier
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Arguments for the Existence of God in Ibn Sīnā’s Metaphysics: An Evaluation of the Problems of Divine Simplicity and Modal Collapse

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This article investigates the proof of God’s existence within Ibn Sīnā’s metaphysical framework, particularly addressing the concepts of divine simplicity and the problem of modal collapse.
Tugay Taşçı
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Environment-Assisted Invariance Does Not Necessitate Born’s Rule for Quantum Measurement

Entropy, 2023
The argument of environment-assisted invariance (known as envariance) implying Born’s rule is widely used in models for quantum measurement to reason that they must yield the correct statistics, specifically for linear models.
Lotte Mertens, Jasper van Wezel
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Another Look at the Modal Collapse Argument [PDF]

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2021
On one classical conception of God, God has no parts, not even metaphysical parts. God is not composed of form and matter, act and potency, and he is not composed of existence and essence. God is absolutely simple. This is the doctrine of Absolute Divine Simplicity (ADS). It is claimed that ADS implies a modal collapse, i.e.
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Economic planning: Time to reconsider? [PDF]

Panoeconomicus, 2009
Together with the collapse of what was once called the socialist system, was also the collapse of research on any other form of economic organization of a society. Administrative methods for running an economy, with economic planning foremost among them,
Kafouros Wassily
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