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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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A Critical Pragmatic Study of Fallacy in Religious Debates
مجلة كلية التربية للبناتA fallacy is a kind of faulty reasoning that undermines the credibility of an argument on a logical level and paves the way for the argument to be exposed as being invalid. It is a flaw in reasoning that contravenes one or more of the five main criteria
Zina Esam Awad, Wafaa Sahib Mehdi
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One-Sided Logic in Two-Sided Markets [PDF]
In this paper the author considers eight basic fallacies that can arise from using conventional wisdom from one-sided markets in two-sided market settings.
Wright, Julian
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Pessimistic induction and two fallacies [PDF]
, 2005 The Pessimistic Induction from falsity of past theories forms a perennial argument against scientific realism. This paper considers and rebuts two recent arguments—due to Lewis (2001) and Lange (2002)—to the conclusion that the Pessimistic Induction (in ...
Saatsi, J.
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most research questions in agricultural and applied economics are causal in nature: they study how changes in one or more variables (such as policies, prices or weather) affect one or more other variables (e.g., income, crop yields or pollution).
Arne Henningsen +6 more
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Intellectual humility and argumentation [PDF]
, 2020 In this chapter I argue that intellectual humility is related to argumentation in several distinct but mutually supporting ways. I begin by drawing connections between humility and two topics of long-standing importance to the evaluation of informal ...
Aberdein, Andrew
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Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell +3 more
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Argumentative Polylogues: Beyond Dialectical Understanding of Fallacies
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2014 Dialectical fallacies are typically defined as breaches of the rules of a regulated discussion between two participants (di-logue). What if discussions become more complex and involve multiple parties with distinct positions to argue for (poly-logues ...
Lewiński Marcin
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Field‐level crop choice responses to weather‐induced yield shocks in the US Corn Belt
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract As climate change increases the frequency and severity of extreme heat events, farmers are expected to face greater variability in crop yields. Using 10 million field‐level observations, this study examines how farmers in the US Corn Belt adjust corn–soybean rotation decisions in response to yield shocks largely driven by weather fluctuations.
Seunghyun Lee
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The Authority of the Fallacies Approach to Argument Evaluation
Informal Logic, 2010 Popular textbook treatments of the fallacies approach to argument evaluation employ the Adversary Method identified by Janice Moulton (1983) that takes the goal of argumentation to be the defeat of other arguments and that narrows the terms of discourse ...
Catherine Hundleby
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