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Qualifying counterfactuals: Students' use of counterfactuals for evaluating historical explanations
History Education Research Journal, 2020 The study investigates upper secondary school students' use of counterfactual reasoning when engaging in a task concerning historical explanation.
Joakim Wendell
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Does Lewis’ Theory of Causation Permit Time Travel?
Philosophies, 2021 David Lewis aimed to give an account of causation, and in particular, a semantics for the counterfactuals to which his account appeals, that is compatible with backwards causation and time travel. I will argue that he failed, but not for the reasons that
Phil Dowe
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Self-referent upward counterfactuals and depression: Examining regret as a mediator
Cogent Psychology, 2018 Previous research has found that self-referent upward counterfactuals are associated with depression. However, empirical evidence regarding the way self-referent upward counterfactuals exert their influence on depression remains scarce.
Anne Gene Broomhall, Wendy J. Phillips
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A Formal Framework for Knowledge Acquisition: Going beyond Machine Learning
Entropy, 2022 Philosophers frequently define knowledge as justified, true belief. We built a mathematical framework that makes it possible to define learning (increasing number of true beliefs) and knowledge of an agent in precise ways, by phrasing belief in terms of ...
Ola Hössjer +2 more
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Back to the Future: Counterfactuals and Scenarios in Defense Research and Planning
Vojenské rozhledy, 2015 Defense planning and research has to engage with questions about future developments quite often. Solutions to these questions tend to be hazy due to (I) the missing data, or due to (II) the necessity to build long-term prognoses, which are – by their ...
Jan Kofroň
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Narrative Quantum Cosmology in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2021 Twentieth-century drama has made the stage a site for reflecting on science. Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, considered by many as one of the most striking contributions to “science plays,” portrays the elusive yet crucial short meeting of the two pillars of
Amani Omid, Pirnajmuddin Hossein
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Counterfactuals: The Epistemic Analysis
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2005 Ordinarily counterfactuals are seen as making statements about states of affairs, albeit ones that hold in merely possible or alternative worlds. Thus analyzed, nearly all counterfactuals turn out to be incoherent.
John-Michael Kuczynski
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Sustainable Materials Design With Multi‐Modal Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Critical mineral scarcity, high embodied carbon, and persistent pollution from materials processing intensify the need for sustainable materials design. This review frames the problem as multi‐objective optimization under heterogeneous, high‐dimensional evidence and highlights multi‐modal AI as an enabling pathway.
Tianyi Xu +8 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Single‐cell perturbation responses are predicted across held‐out biological contexts using scPILOT, a query‐conditioned two‐stage latent response‐transfer framework. A shared latent representation supports cell‐level response estimation by latent optimal transport, followed by Leiden‐localized query‐specific transfer and adaptive weighting.
Jialiang Wang +10 more
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Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park +4 more
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