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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2018 Contrary to the criticism that mysterious, unaccountable black-box software systems threaten to make the logic of critical decisions inscrutable, we argue that algorithms are fundamentally understandable pieces of technology.
Joshua A. Kroll
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Including Harvested Grain Biogenic CO2 to Address a Critical Flaw in Climate Accounting
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The international climate accounting system excludes both the biogenic CO2 sequestered in harvested crops and the biogenic CO2 emissions that occur when grain is digested or burned as biofuel. Despite being described in the literature as a critical flaw in climate accounting all parties within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Richard S. Gray
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Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2018 The paper discusses the nature and functioning of argumentum ad misericordiam, a well-known but less theorised type of argument. A monograph by D. Walton (1997) offers an overview of definitions of misericordia (which he eventually translates as ‘pity’),
Könczöl Miklós
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Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya, 2019 This article investigates the phenomena of electoral politics and culture of social media in the context of Indonesian law and society through a case study of Jakarta Gubernatorial Election in 2017.
Tanius Sebastian
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The Fallacy of Nuclear Primacy [PDF]
, 2006 "The United States is easily deterred by any nuclear armed state, even by the most primitive and diminutive of nuclear arsenals." Bruce G. Blair is the President of the World Security Institute.
Bruce G. Blair, Chen Yali
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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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, 2016 We find consistent evidence of negative autocorrelation in decision-making that is unrelated to the merits of the cases considered in three separate high-stakes field settings: refugee asylum court decisions, loan application reviews, and major league ...
Daniel L. Chen, T. Moskowitz, K. Shue
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Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy*
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, 2019 Discounting future costs and benefits is often defended on the ground that our descendants will be richer. Simply to treat the future as better off, however, is to commit an ecological fallacy.
Matthew Rendall
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Churchill and Germany: A ‘Special’ Relationship
History, EarlyView.Abstract No other country defined the trajectory of Churchill's political career more than Germany, a country of which he had little direct knowledge but which he either sought to emulate, accommodate or oppose throughout his time in politics. This article traces Churchill's relationship with Germany from his entry into politics at the beginning of the
T. G. Otte
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The Speech Act Fallacy Fallacy [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1982 John Searle has charged R.M. Hare's prescriptivist analysis of the meaning of ‘good,’ ‘ought’ and the other evaluative words with committing what he calls the ‘speech act fallacy.’ This is a fallacy which Searle thinks is committed not only by Hare's analysis, but by any analysis which attributes to a word the function of indicating that a particular ...
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