The effect of foreknowledge of demand in case of a restricted capacity: the single-stage, singleproduct case with lost sales [PDF]
, 2002 Foreknowledge of demand is useful in the control of a production-inventory system. Knowingthe customer orders in advance makes it possible to anticipate properly. It is an importantcondition to produce and deliver the right quantity of the right product
Wijngaard, J.,
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Time, Truth, Actuality, and Causation: On the Impossibility of Divine Foreknowledge [PDF]
, 2010 In this essay, my goal is, first, to describe the most important contemporary philosophical approaches to the nature of time, and then, secondly, to discuss the ways in which those different accounts bear upon the question of the possibility of divine ...
Tooley, Michael
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, 2021 This is an English translation of Emilie Du Châtelet's "Sur la liberté." This 18th century text discusses freedom of the will, determinism, and divine foreknowledge. Translated from French by Julia Jorati, with the help of Julie Roy.
du Châtelet, Émilie
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Structure and Characteristics of the Concept "Economic Headline" in German Linguaculture
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2019 The research features an analysis of the headlines of economic articles published in German periodicals after the global economic crisis. The paper gives a theoretical basis of the conceptual nature of headlines and characterizes the phenomenon as a ...
S. V. Chertousova
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Overstatement or Understatement; A Critique of the book Maktab dar Farayand e Takamol [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2017 In religious teachings of Imamiyyah, both overstatement and understatement about Imams are forbidden, which are rooted in incorrect knowledge of states of Imamate and Imam's existential position in the creation. The present paper criticizes a part of the
Seyyedeh Mona Mousavi
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The foreknowledge of extinction [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2009 We are, so far as we know, the first species that has foreseen its own extinction. In the distant past, this foreknowledge took the form of myths, including visions of Armageddon. In the last couple of centuries, however, we have been able to give precise scientific shape to such forebodings.
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Future Contingents and the Logic of Temporal Omniscience [PDF]
, 2019 At least since Aristotle’s famous 'sea-battle' passages in On Interpretation 9, some substantial minority of philosophers has been attracted to the doctrine of the open future--the doctrine that future contingent statements are not true. But, prima facie,
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Early-Modern Irreligion and Theological Analogy: A Response to Gavin Hyman’s A Short History of Atheism [PDF]
, 2016 Historically, many Christians have understood God’s transcendence to imply God’s properties categorically differ from any created properties. For multiple historical figures, a problem arose for religious language: how can one talk of God at all if none ...
Linford, Dan
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Divine Foreknowledge and Human Moral Responsibility (In Defense of Muslim Philosophers’ Approach) [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2019 According to most Muslim philosophers, the Divine foreknowledge, on the one hand, is so inclusive that encompasses each and every minor and timed action of moral agents, and because of the perfection of God in essence and attributes, any defects in His ...
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The Open Future, Free Will and Divine Assurance: Responding to Three Common Objections to the Open View [PDF]
, 2015 In this essay I respond to three of the most forceful objections to the open view of the future. It is argued that a) open view advocates must deny bivalence; b) the open view offers no theodicy advantages over classical theism; and c) the open view can ...
Boyd, Gregory
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