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Subjective Causality and Counterfactuals in the Social Sciences [PDF]
, 2018 The article explores the role that subjective evidence of causality and associated counterfactuals and counterpotentials might play in the social sciences where comparative cases are scarce.
Abell, Peter, Engel, Ofer
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Medical Cyber-Physical Systems Development: A Forensics-Driven Approach
, 2017 The synthesis of technology and the medical industry has partly contributed to the increasing interest in Medical Cyber-Physical Systems (MCPS). While these systems provide benefits to patients and professionals, they also introduce new attack vectors ...
Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond +2 more
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, 2017 Skeptical theism is a family of responses to the evidential problem of evil. What unifies this family is two general claims. First, that even if God were to exist, we shouldn’t expect to see God’s reasons for permitting the suffering we observe.
Perrine, Timothy, Wykstra, Stephen
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Ad Hominem Arguments, Rhetoric, and Science Communication
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2018 In this paper, I contend that evidence-focused strategies of science communication may be complemented by possibly more effective rhetorical arguments in current public debates on vaccines.
Martini Carlo
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, 2020 This paper argues that we should assign certainty a central place in epistemology. While epistemic certainty played an important role in the history of epistemology, recent epistemology has tended to dismiss certainty as an unattainable ideal, focusing ...
Beddor, Bob
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Rehabilitating Statistical Evidence [PDF]
, 2021 Recently, the practice of deciding legal cases on purely statistical evidence has been widely criticised. Many feel uncomfortable with finding someone guilty on the basis of bare probabilities, even though the chance of error might be stupendously small.
Ross, Lewis
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Strategy Constrained by Cognitive Limits, and the Rationality of Belief-Revision Policies
Games, 2017 Strategy is formally defined as a complete plan of action for every contingency in a game. Ideal agents can evaluate every contingency. But real people cannot do so, and require a belief-revision policy to guide their choices in unforeseen contingencies.
Ashton T. Sperry-Taylor
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Dizque: a Colombian evidentiality strategy
Linguistics, 2006 Dizque has developed from the verb decir 'say' and the complementizer que, originating in a phrase meaning something like 'it is said that'. This article presents an analysis of this expression as used in contemporary Colombian Spanish based on a corpus of naturally occurring spoken and written data.
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An evidential classifier based on feature selection and two-step classification strategy [PDF]
Pattern Recognition, 2015 In this paper, we investigate ways to learn efficiently from uncertain data using belief functions. In order to extract more knowledge from imperfect and insufficient information and to improve classification accuracy, we propose a supervised learning method composed of a feature selection procedure and a two-step classification strategy.
Lian, Chunfeng +2 more
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Effects of probiotics on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a review of human clinical trials
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a global public health issue, of which the prevalence is about 25% worldwide. The incidence of NAFLD is increasing in patients with obesity, type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and the metabolic syndrome.
Chujin Cao +7 more
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