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Ambiguität in kritischen Kontexten: Der lexical split des deutschen Modalverbs dürfte / Ambiguity in Critical Contexts: The Lexical Split of the German Modal dürfte [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław
The present-day German modal verb dürfen (‘to be allowed to do sth’) is currently undergoing a lexical split in its grammaticalisation. In the subjunctive II, dürfte, it is developing into an epistemic marker of phoric non-factuality used to express a ...
Katja Politt
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Independence and games

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2005
Hintikka and Sandu have developed IF logic as a genuine alternative to classical first-order logic : liberalizing dependence schemas between quantifiers, IF would carry out all the ideas already underlying classical logic.
Denis Bonnay
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Disagreement among experts about public health decision making: is it polarisation and does it matter?

BMJ Global Health, 2023
It is common for aspects of the COVID-19 response—and other public health initiatives before it—to be described as polarised. Public health decisions emerge from an interplay of facts, norms and preferred courses of action.
Chris Degeling, Gwendolyn L Gilbert, Claire Hooker, Jane H Williams, Suyin Hor   +4 more
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The Epistemic Value of Expert Autonomy [PDF]

, 2018
According to an influential Enlightenment ideal, one shouldn't rely epistemically on other people's say-so, at least not if one is in a position to evaluate the relevant evidence for oneself.
Dellsén, Finnur
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Bayesian Noise Modelling for State Estimation of the Spread of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia with Extended Kalman Filters

Sensors, 2023
The epistemic uncertainty in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) model-based predictions using complex noisy data greatly affects the accuracy of pandemic trend and state estimations.
Lamia Alyami, Deepak Kumar Panda, Saptarshi Das   +2 more
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Riggs on strong justification [PDF]

, 1998
In 'The Weakness of Strong Justification' Wayne Riggs claims that the requirement that justified beliefs be truth conducive (likely to be true) is not always compatible with the requirement that they be epistemically responsible (arrived at in an ...
Bonjour L., Goldman A., Goldman Alvin, Joel Katzav   +3 more
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Theory of History, Epistemic Transformations, and Presentism

Historical-Philological Journal, 2023
This remarkable book is an outcome of many years of reflection on conceptual history by one of its leading exponents, who through the magnificent Iberconceptos project has explored the scope for thinking about the life of ideas ‘beyond Bielefeld ...

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Is an Appeal to Popularity a Fallacy of Popularity?

Informal Logic, 2019
It is common to view appeals to popularity as fallacious. We argue this is a mistake and that Condorcet’s jury theorem can be used to justify at least some appeals to popularity as legitimate inferences.
Don Dedrick
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Sensibility, Understanding, and Kant’s Transcendental Deduction: From Epistemic Compositionalism to Epistemic Hylomorphism

Review of Metaphysics, 2023
:Can sensibility, as our capacity to be sensibly presented with objects, be understood independently of the understanding, as the capacity to form judgments about those objects?
Maximilian Tegtmeyer
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Unhu/Ubuntu and Education for Reconciliation in Zimbabwe

Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 2013
The paper examines the concept, strengths and shortcomings, role and implementation of the reconciliation policy as Zimbabwe emerged from periods of conflict crisis soon after independence in the 1980s, and the current crisis in the 2000s and how the ...
Oswell Hapanyengwi-Chemhuru, Edward Shizha   +1 more
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