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A Counterexample to Viterbo's Conjecture [PDF]

We provide a counterexample to Viterbo's volume-capacity conjecture based on Minkowski billiard dynamics. This implies in particular that symplectic capacities differ on the class of convex domains in the classical phase space.Comment: Minor changes from
Ostrover, Yaron, Haim-Kislev, Pazit
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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
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Being Biased and Knowing How to Reason

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explains how reasoning is action and not reflex. It then uses that theory to explain one form of knowing how to reason. Reasoning is thinking biased by knowledge. Drawing on Louise Antony's emphasis on bias as critical for dealing with underdetermination in induction, I show that underdetermination confronts all forms of reasoning ...
Wayne Wu
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A counterexample to the PIA conjecture for minimal log discrepancies

We give a counterexample to the PIA (precise inversion of adjunction) conjecture for minimal log discrepancies. We also give a counterexample to the LSC (lower semicontinuity) conjecture for families.
Yusuke Nakamura, Kohsuke Shibata
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Mercy: A Right and a Privilege

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many accounts of mercy nowadays are morally neutral; agents show mercy when they impose less harm than they might have, whether or not such harm would have been permissible. More morally infused perspectives are often dismissed; for they seem too narrow to capture the full gamut of ordinary usage.
Jessica Isserow
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Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
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Nonattainability of the Fragility Index. [PDF]

Cureus
Heston TF.
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Weak Exogeneity, Driving Trends and Non‐Causality. Is Dynamic Adjustment Informative About Causality?

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In VECMs (or CVARs), the weak exogeneity of some of the variables (for the long‐run parameters) is related to the equilibrium adjustment dynamics. This has sometimes led to the statistical concept of weak exogeneity being given a causal interpretation.
Emanuele Lopetuso, Michael P. Clements
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Editorial: Verification, Falsification, and the Methodology Paradigm Shift for Scientific Psychology. [PDF]

Psych J
Zhang J.
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Territorial Rights and the Debate About the Morality of Zionism

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the view that, beyond particular wrongs committed by Zionism, the Zionist project was itself inherently wrong. I argue that the most plausible basis for this claim is the contention that Zionism disrespected the territorial rights of the local Arab population. By examining leading contemporary theories of territorial rights
Daniel Statman
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