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Is Russell's vicious circle principle false or meaningless? [PDF]
P. Vardy asserts the thesis that the vicious circle principle has the same structure as Russell's paradox. But structure is not the thing itself. It is the thing objectivated from the wiewpoint of a mathematician.
Fleischhacker, L.E.
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Embedding Chemistry and Pharmacy Into Sustainability
Chemistry and pharmacy provide products and processes that are indispensable for our high living standard. To understand their relationship with sustainability is important to allow them to contribute to sustainability in a sustainable manner. An integrated overview of green, circular, and sustainable chemistry and pharmacy is given and how they have t
Klaus Kümmerer
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Illusion of Control in a Brownian Game [PDF]
Both single-player Parrondo games (SPPG) and multi-player Parrondo games (MPPG) display the Parrondo Effect (PE) wherein two or more individually fair (or Llosing) games yield a net winning outcome if alternated periodically or randomly. (There is a more
Allison +11 more
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Is the Ebbinghaus illusion a size contrast illusion?
The Ebbinghaus illusion, in which a central target surrounded by larger context figures looks smaller than when surrounded by smaller context figures, is usually classified as a size contrast illusion. Thus "size contrast" is the dominant account of this effect.
Dejan, Todorović, Ljubica, Jovanović
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Three elemental illusions determine theZöllner illusion [PDF]
We have discovered an apparent contraction illusion of acute angles in a special form of the Zöllner figure at the intersecting angles between 36 degrees and 83 degrees (i.e., a reversal of the Zöllner illusion). The necessary condition for this illusion is that inducing lines are long enough and the induced line (test line) is single. When an illusory
Kitaoka, A., Ishihara, M.
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Abstract Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are generally regarded as “crested” or “non‐crested” depending on the presence or absence of a bony cranial crest. At least one supposedly “non‐crested” hadrosaur is known to have possessed a soft tissue cranial crest (or comb), based on an exceptionally preserved “mummified” specimen. Here we redescribe this specimen and
Henry S. Sharpe +4 more
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Duplicates of minors sold as “Love Dolls”: disturbance in sexual representation
In January 2016, a “grandmother” starts a petition to ban the sale of child sex dolls, portrayed as “sickening aids for pedophiles.” The media then started discussing the legitimacy of laws similar to George Orwell’s thought crime.
Agnès Giard
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What is embodiment? a psychometric approach [PDF]
What is it like to have a body? The present study takes a psychometric approach to this question. We collected structured introspective reports of the rubber hand illusion, to systematically investigate the structure of bodily self-consciousness ...
Aglioti +71 more
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ABSTRACT Ancient Olympia was one of the most important sanctuaries and the venue for the Olympic Games in Greek and Roman times. Its remains are located in the Olympia Terrace (Peloponnese, Greece) at the present‐day confluence of the rivers Alpheios and Kladeos at the base of Mount Kronos.
Sarah Bäumler +10 more
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This interview raises the issue of the realities of illusion, based on the interpretation of the vicariance concept developed by Alain Berthoz in the book entitled La Vicariance. Le cerveau créateur de mondes, published in 2013 (Odile Jacob). A series of
Alain Berthoz, Marie-Hélène Tramus
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