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Bi-/multilingualism and the perceptions of the gender of objects

Glottodidactica, 2010
The newest research confirms the ‘weak’ version of the linguistic relativity hypothesis, according to which the language we speak influences to some extent the way we think.
Zofia Chłopek
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Un fundamento filosófico para un modelo de sociedad culturalmente diversa

Nóesis, 2012
This article aims to outline some philosophical bases that allow support of a model of society that does not give up the ethnically and culturally richness that is in our country.
María del Carmen Gómez Martínez
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THE LIMITS OF PRAGMATISM AND THE LIMITS OF REALISM

Zygon, 1993
. I argue here for a limited version of pragmatism—called conceptual pragmatism—that recognizes that conceptual systems are to be evaluated according to their usefulness for helping us get around in the world.
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Shedding light on gravity: Black hole shadows and lensing signatures in Lorentz gauge theory

Nuclear Physics B
Recent advances, including gravitational wave detections and imaging of black hole shadows, have strongly validated general relativity. Nevertheless, ongoing cosmological observations suggest potential limitations of general relativity, spurring interest
Ali Övgün, Mohsen Fathi
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Reasonable fermionic quantum information theories require relativity

New Journal of Physics, 2016
We show that any quantum information theory based on anticommuting operators must be supplemented by a superselection rule deeply rooted in relativity to establish a reasonable notion of entanglement.
Nicolai Friis
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Immanence in Physics

Performance Philosophy, 2017
In this article, the conceptual history of space in physics will be presented in the context of transcendent and immanent concepts. In short, transcendent concepts postulate space as an ambient super-structure to organize material objects, while in ...
Tanja Traxler
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Feminine fox, not so feminine box: constraints on linguistic relativity effects for grammatical and conceptual gender

Language and Cognition
The influence of grammatical gender on conceptual representations of gender has proven to be a controversial topic in the linguistic relativity literature, with empirical evidence in support of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis being highly task and ...
James Brand, Mikuláš Preininger, Adam Kříž, Markéta Ceháková   +3 more
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On the Possibility of a Conceptual Model of Quality of Life

Sociologie Românească, 2023
Up to now, quality of life (QOL) research has been guided by several conceptual frameworks that allow for the generation of rather general approaches to QOL with very fragmented explanatory contributions, while no specific conceptual models can be ...
Iuliana Precupețu
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Ad hoc concepts and linguistic relativity: towards an experiential and situated view of language–cognition interactions

Language and Cognition
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on ad hoc concepts and linguistic relativity. We argue that empirical research on linguistic relativity can be re-interpreted through the lens of ad hoc cognition, a framework originating in ...
Panos Athanasopoulos, Monique Flecken, Norbert Vanek   +2 more
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An alternative proposal for interpreting two recurring misinterpretations in the relativistic mass-energy relationship

Revista de Enseñanza de la Física
This essay explores two recurring mistakes commonly encountered in the teaching of the mass-energy relationship within the framework of the Special Theory of Relativity.
Clair de Luma Capiberibe Nunes, Wellington Pereira de Queirós   +1 more
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