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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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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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Counter-Conceivability Again

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
This chapter is concerned with the epistemology of metaphysical possibility implicit in the famous argument against physicalism about the mental outlined in the third lecture of Saul Kripke’s Naming and Necessity.
C. Wright
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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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Conceivability, Kripkean Identity, and S5: A Reply to Jonathon VandenHombergh

Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy, 2023
P. Márton
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CONCEIVABILITY AND MODAL KNOWLEDGE

Metaphilosophy, 2006
Abstract: This article is a discussion of Hume's maxim Nothing we imagine is absolutely impossible. First I explain this maxim and distinguish it from the principle Whatever cannot be imagined (conceived), is impossible. Next I argue that Thomas Reid's criticism of the maxim fails and that the arguments by Tamar Szábo Gendler and John Hawthorne for ...
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Conceivability, existence, and logic


One of the central themes of this essay is the contrast between two notions of conceivability, which, as a first approximation, may be circumscribed in terms of the distinction between what is rationally imaginable (imaginative conceivability), as ...
Dominika Kauss
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On the Conceivability of Mechanism

Philosophy of Science, 1971
In a recent paper Norman Malcolm has argued that mechanism is an inconceivable position.' By this Malcolm does not mean that mechanism is logically contradictory. Rather mechanism is a position which cannot be asserted or argued for. For, according to Malcolm, asserting a position and arguing for a position involve purposeful behavior and mechanism ...
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