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Common-Sense Realism and the Unimaginable Otherness of Science

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007
Bas van Fraassen endorses both common-sense realism — the view, roughly, that the ordinary macroscopic objects that we take to exist actually do exist — and constructive empiricism — the view, roughly, that the aim of science is truth about the ...
Bradley Monton
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Shadow Infrastructures of Labour: A Case Study of Generative AI Use in Victorian Child Protection Practice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT are rapidly entering workplaces, yet their use in frontline human services remains largely undocumented and weakly regulated. Drawing on an investigation into a child protection worker's informal use of ChatGPT, this article provides insight into how GenAI is already shaping ...
Joel Robert McGregor, Linus Tan, Caleb Lloyd, Abigail Sheed   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gaan na die mier, kyk na sy weë en word wys: Metafoor of paradigma?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013
Go to the ant, consider her ways, and be wise. Metaphor or paradigm? This article takes as its point of departure two citations. The one is from Marshall and Zohar’s contention that the wave-particle dualism is more than a metaphor and the other is from ...
Johan Buitendag
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Speech performance in language teaching-learning: Culturally textual and non-textual landscapes of Toba Caldera Geosites

Studies in English Language and Education
The study described teachers’ speech performance using textual and non-textual elements in language teaching-learning. The linguistic element is the text of the language landscape of Toba Caldera Geosites.
Robert Sibarani, Mangatur Nababan, Wahyudi Wahyudi, Defri Elias Simatupang, Yessy Octavianna   +4 more
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Deconstructing van Fraassen's observable/unobservable dichotomy [PDF]

, 2012
Van Fraassen bases his alternative to scientific realism, constructive empiricism, on a dichotomy between the observable and the unobservable. This paper argues that the implications of the dichotomy regarding microscopy can not be made to stand, and ...
Mario, Bacelar Valente
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A second species of non‐crocodyliform crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic fissure deposits of southwestern UK: Implications for locomotory ecological diversity in Saltoposuchidae

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Late Triassic–Early Jurassic fissures of the Bristol Channel area (southwest England and south Wales) are renowned for their diverse vertebrate faunas. These assemblages have yielded an array of predominantly small‐bodied forms that are crucial to our understanding of the early evolution of several major tetrapod clades.
Ewan H. Bodenham, Stephan N. F. Spiekman, Susannah C. R. Maidment, Paul Upchurch, Philip D. Mannion   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Principle of Observability, the Stage of Empirical Weightlessness of a Theory (SEWT) and Constructive Empiricism (CE)

RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2011
This work aims at analyzing the principle of observability (PO) from the formal point of view, making use of its explicit (ontological and epistemological) definitions.
Andrey N Pavlenko
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Computational fluid dynamics simulations of airflow through the nasal passages of rhinolophoid bats

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The nasal passages of bats that emit their echolocation call through their nostrils have adapted for sound emission as well as standard respiratory and olfactory functions. Rhinolophids, hipposiderids and rhinonycterids all use a high duty cycle (HDC) echolocation strategy.
Carley Goodwin, Jason M. Bourke, Daisuke Koyabu, Kyle N. Armstrong, Vuong T. Tu, Thongchai Ngamprasertwong, Thanakul Wannaprasert, Laura A. B. Wilson   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variable grouping patterns in primates: A test of the better competitor hypothesis in male Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Intraspecific variation in social organization (IVSO) within primate populations can arise due to male mating competition. Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) populations exhibit both single‐male and multi‐male groups, providing an opportunity to examine the relationship between male competitive ability and social organization.
Lemeng Li, Stacey R. Tecot, Rebecca J. Lewis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generalizing Empirical Adequacy I: Multiplicity and Approximation [PDF]

, 2011
Based on a formalization of constructive empiricism’s core concept of empirical adequacy, I show that some previous discussions rest on misunderstandings of empirical adequacy.
Lutz, Sebastian
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