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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
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Avicenna on the PSR and Causal Necessity in the Natural World
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Avicenna's account of causal necessity in the natural world is a key part of his metaphysical system and it is also historically significant. Yet, there is little scholarly discussion of the philosophical basis of his view. This is surprising not only because the topic is important, but also because the view is challenging to interpret ...
Kara Richardson
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, 1988 Hume thinks the exemplar of human knowledge is not absolutely certain 'knowledge' but our ordinary beliefs which are fallible. The chief objective of this paper is to investigate what this shift of emphasis means in his theory of knowledge, and try to ...
石川, 徹
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Doubting the Truth of Hume's Principle
Organon f, 2010 Hume’s Principle (HP) states that for any two (sortal) concepts, F and G, the number of Fs is identical to the number of Gs iff the Fs are one- one correlated with the Gs. Backed by second-order logic HP is supposed to be the starting point for the neo-logicist program of the foundations of arithmetic.
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Review of Education, Volume 14, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract Assessment is a contested term in school conceptualisation and practices. Assessment in music education has a variety of meanings, and complexities can arise from music teacher and school leader understandings of the term. Using an activity theory conceptual framework and Q methodology, this longitudinal research project sought to develop ...
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The Me-File: An Event-Coding Approach to Self-Representation. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Hommel B.
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Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.ABSTRACT Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) was a blockbuster publication that problematized notions about the origins and nature of scientific revolutions. What became Kuhn's famous rubrics of “normal science” and “paradigms” were similar to concepts of “tacit knowledge” and scientific “frameworks” or “dogmas” in Michael ...
Mary Jo Nye
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On the Necessity of the Causal Principle. A Critique of Hume's Analysis of Causation from the Perspective of the Conceivability Principle. [PDF]
, 2021 Raymond Brassier Bana BashourIn this thesis I will be discussing Hume’s critique of the causal principle. I will explain his strategy in basing the argument on the conceivability principle.
Bazzy, Mohamed
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Nursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the development of modern nursing education in China through a case study of the Xiangya School of Nursing in Changsha between 1909 and 1926. Founded in 1911 by the Yale‐in‐China Association, a non‐denominational mission, Xiangya was among the earliest nursing schools in China to promote undergraduate nursing education ...
Yao Tang, Dominique Tobbell
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