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Fetal Pain Perception: Legislative Assertions and Developmental Neuroscience
Annals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Pain perception is a conscious experience, but neither pain nor consciousness is defined in the developing human fetus. Emergent consciousness may be regarded as a phenomenon that ultimately arises from an essential minimum of functional neuronal connectivity. Proposed U.S.
William D. Graf +9 more
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez +1 more
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The Cogent Reasoning Model of Informal Fallacies Revisited
Informal Logic, 2002 The author designed the Reasoning Analysis Test to provide empirical support for the CRM analysis of informal fallacies. While informal, the results provide presumptive evidence that those committing informal fallacies may tacitly reason as predicted by ...
Daniel N. Boone
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Confidence intervals: Concepts, fallacies, criticisms, solutions and beyond [PDF]
Network Biology, 2022 For a long time, confidence interval theory is the basis of statistics, and confidence interval has been regarded as an important content of statistical analysis.
WenJun Zhang
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.This study, using data from Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children across ages 4, 7 and 8, found bidirectional associations between parental negativity and child externalising behaviour across ages 7 to 8 but not ages 4 to 7. Contrary to expectations, social support and neighbourhood cohesion did not moderate any of the cross‐lagged paths ...
Jasmine A. L. Raw +4 more
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The Philosophy of Error and Liberty of Thought: J.S. Mill on Logical Fallacies
Informal Logic, 2008 Most recent discussions of John Stuart Mill’s System of Logic (1843) neglect the fifth book concerned with logical fallacies. Mill not only follows the revival of interest in the traditional Aristotelian doctrine of fallacies in Richard Whately and ...
Frederick Rosen
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Leibniz's Laws of Continuity and Homogeneity
, 2012 We explore Leibniz's understanding of the differential calculus, and argue that his methods were more coherent than is generally recognized. The foundations of the historical infinitesimal calculus of Newton and Leibniz have been a target of numerous ...
Katz, Mikhail G., Sherry, David
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Scaring the public: fear appeal arguments in public health reasoning [PDF]
, 2012 The study of threat and fear appeal arguments has given rise to a sizeable literature. Even within a public health context, much is now known about how these arguments work to gain the public's compliance with health recommendations. Notwithstanding this
Cummings, L
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Fallacies in ethical argumentation on abortion
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007 This paper represents a case study of the types of fallacies that may occur in the argumentation stage of an ethical dispute over abortion. The theoretical framework I use is the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation (van Eemeren and Grootendorst ...
Simona Mazilu
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