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Top Ten Myths and Fallacies Regarding Immigration [PDF]
This paper analyzes what the author views as the current top ten myths and fallacies regarding immigration and immigration policy in the United States.immigrants, immigration policy, myths ...
Chiswick, Barry R.
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THE FALLACIES OF PATENT-HOLDUP THEORY
, 2017 Patent-holdup theory avers that the patent system threatens the rate of innovation in the U.S. economy, particularly in information technology industries that are heavily reliant on standard-essential patents.
Alexander Galetovic, S. Haber
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates whether prior exposure to natural disasters influenced individual compliance with non‐pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), specifically lockdown measures, during the Corona Virus Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Focusing on the Marche region of Italy, which experienced a severe earthquake in 2016, we exploit
Vincenzo Alfano +2 more
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A Contextualist Defence of the Material Account of Indicative Conditionals [PDF]
The material account of indicative conditionals faces a legion of counterexamples that are the bread and butter in any entry about the subject. For this reason, the material account is widely unpopular among conditional experts.
Silva, Matheus
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Fifty years of killing and letting die: On the limits of philosophical bioethics
Bioethics, EarlyView.Abstract In 1975, The New England Journal of Medicine published James Rachels' article ‘Active and Passive Euthanasia’. The argumentative method that Rachels introduced, the Bare Difference Argument (also known as the Contrast Strategy), became one of the most widely used tools in ethical reasoning.
Joona Räsänen, Matti Häyry
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Informal Logic, 2016 Argumentation occurs through and as communicative activity. Communication (and therefore argumentation) is organized by pragmatic principles of expression and interpretation.
Scott Jacobs
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article challenges the claim that conscientious refusal and conscientious provision in healthcare are mutually exclusive and thus asymmetrical. While US law protects healthcare providers who refuse to perform medical services on moral or religious grounds, it offers no equivalent protections to those who feel morally compelled to provide ...
Tzofit Ofengenden
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A Taxonomy of Fallacies in System Safety Arguments [PDF]
Safety cases are gaining acceptance as assurance vehicles for safety-related systems. A safety case documents the evidence and argument that a system is safe to operate; however, logical fallacies in the underlying argument may undermine a system s ...
Greenwell, William S. +3 more
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Scoping review on natural language processing applications in counselling and psychotherapy
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Recent years have witnessed some rapid and tremendous progress in natural language processing (NLP) techniques that are used to analyse text data. This study endeavours to offer an up‐to‐date review of NLP applications by examining their use in counselling and psychotherapy from 1990 to 2021.
Maria Laricheva +3 more
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Four kinds of fallacies in comparing market-type and Soviet-type economies: issues and outcomes
PSL Quarterly Review, 2013 The work highlights the most common fallacies in comparing market-type and Soviet-type economies. The author analyses four kinds of fallacy that tend to reduce - for different reasons and in different ways - the development differential between mature ...
J. WINIECKI
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