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CONCEIVING THE INCONCEIVABLE:

2022
The institutional outlook of the medical establishment is typically a cis-defined gaze that can do violence when directed at trans* people and lesbians. The particular salience of that possibility registers for readers of A.K. Summers’s Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag (2014).
Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Chinmay Murali
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Conceivability arguments for haecceitism

SynthÈse, 2016
According to haecceitism, some maximal possibilities differ even while they are qualitatively indiscernible. Since haecceitism is a modal thesis, it is typically defended by appeal to conceivability arguments. These arguments require us to conceive of qualitatively indiscernible possibilities that differ only with respect to the identity of the ...
Sam Cowling
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Conceivability, rigidity and counterpossibles

SynthÈse, 2008
Wright (In Gendler and Hawthorne (Eds.), Conceivability and possibility, 2002) rejects some dominant responses to Kripke’s modal argument against the mind-body identity theory, and instead he proposes a new response that draws on a certain understanding of counterpossibles.
Jesper Kallestrup
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Conceived

2023
Tristan's parents, Bill and Judy, meet and get married, Tristan is born, and her parents' divorce.
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Conceiving and dying in Afghanistan

The Lancet, 2005
Since the first International Safe Motherhood Conference in 1987 there has been increased focus on maternal health and maternal mortality. The design and implementation of effective programmes for maternal health require data of adequate quality despite the challenges of generating such data.
Jeffrey M, Smith, Gilbert, Burnham
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Conceiving the Past and Future

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2003
The authors compared people's views of their histories and futures by asking them to recall and anticipate personally significant episodes. It was hypothesized and found in Study 1 that individuals spontaneously recall an affectively mixed past, containing both “highs” and “lows,” whereas they anticipate homogeneously ideal futures.
Ian R, Newby-Clark, Michael, Ross
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ILL‐Conceived Ideas

OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, 1993
Welcome to The Column concerning interlibrary services in the OCLC universe! Dare if you will to join me in my continuing mission to infuse new life, explore strange new visions, and boldly go where no humor has gone before. In this episode we begin with yet more tips for using PRISM…
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Conceivability and Possibility

2014
AbstractThis article examines some philosophical questions about knowledge of modality, including how we determine whether a proposition is necessary or contingent and what procedures to use for recognizing possibility. It maintains that virtually anything is conceivable, and that conceivability is therefore incapable of providing a reliable test for ...
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Conceived and Deceived: The Medical Interests of Donor‐Conceived Individuals

Hastings Center Report, 2012
AbstractEffective July 22, 2011, a new law in the state of Washington requires any donor of sperm or eggs to provide a medical history and identifying information to fertility clinics. It also allows donor‐conceived individuals to request this information from clinics once they reach the age of eighteen.
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CONCEIVING SELVES

Journal of Religious Ethics, 2021
AbstractMany ethics instructors turn to peculiar examples and cases to highlight ethical concerns about autonomy and collective goods. While these efforts are respectable, they lamentably reinforce the valorization of independence and the opposition of individuality to collectivity that are too prevalent in ethics today.
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