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Realistic Convention and Conventional Realism in Shakespeare

History of European Ideas, 1981
(1981). Realistic convention and conventional realism in Shakespeare. History of European Ideas: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 237-248.
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Causal models in conventional and non-conventional medicines

Medical Hypotheses, 1999
The author describes the possible causal models in both conventional and non-conventional therapies. Ontological determinism is used as a metaphysical assumption and linear causalism as a reference model. The linear causalism is here based on the following properties: sufficient condition, necessary condition, specificity, dose-response relationship ...
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Conventional Weapons Convention

2009
Abstract This chapter discusses the important provisions of the UN Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW).
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Conventional myomectomy

Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2008
In addition to the conventional/older treatments of myomectomy and hysterectomy, the options now available to the woman with symptomatic fibroids, especially if she wishes to conserve her uterus, include medical treatments such as mifepristone, minimally invasive therapies such as uterine artery embolization (UAE) or magnetic-resonance-guided focused ...
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Morality, convention and conventional morality

Philosophical Explorations, 2017
Among anthropologists and sociologists, it is widely believed that moral rules are best understood as a type of social norm. Moral philosophers, however, have largely been hostile to this suggestion. In recent years, the impulse to distinguish moral rules from others types of social norm has received what many take to be empirical support from the work
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Convents as Homes

Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 2005
The present article discusses convents as homes. Resulting from the study of a Gregorian source presently housed at DePaul University's Richardson library, this article probes the complexities and restrictions of convent life in 17th century Spain. The Sanctoral de Visperas (1653) functions as a backdrop for a consideration of how singing chant and ...
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Is there redemption for conventions?

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2005
This article explores the concept of convention in the social sciences. It presents the two major neo-Humean philosophical approaches to convention and challenges their intuitive appeal and research implications. The weaknesses of these approaches are examined and a new direction is suggested for the study of convention.
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Reichenbach on Convention

Synthese, 1977
Reichenbach articulated and defended a distinction between conventional and factual components within a scientific theory. For example, he argued that the axioms of geometry are factual while the coordinative definitions for geometry are conventional.1 The scientific spirit with which Reichenbach approached philosophical discussion is illustrated by ...
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Conventional Disarmament

World Politics, 1962
The purpose of this article is, first, to analyze certain of the obstacles JL that have principally impeded progress on the subject of disarmament over the past fifteen years and more; secondly, to suggest that these difficulties may be less likely to frustrate the conclusion of limited agreements in the field of conventional weapons alone than of the ...
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