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, 2006 The possibility of gunk has been used to argue against mereological nihilism. This paper explores two responses on the part of the microphysical mereological nihilist: (1) the contingency defence, which maintains that nihilism is true of the actual world;
Armstrong D. M. +15 more
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Spatial Disorientation Simulator
Safety & Defense, 2018 The article describes the characteristics of the spatial disorientation simulator constructed for the Polish Air Force Academy aviation training. Using the spatial disorientation simulator enables safe training for military pilots, as it simulates visual
Bogusz Dariusz
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Get the gist? The effects of processing depth on false recognition in short-term and long-term memory [PDF]
, 2014 Gist-based processing has been proposed to account for robust false memories in the converging-associates task. The deep-encoding processes known to enhance verbatim memory also strengthen gist memory and increase distortions of long-term memory (LTM ...
Flegal, Kristin E. +1 more
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Gender agreement attraction in Greek comprehension [PDF]
, 2020 This work explores gender agreement attraction in comprehension. Attraction occurs when an agreement error (such as, “the key to the cabinets are rusty”) goes unnoticed, leading to the illusion of grammaticality due to a mismatch between the value of the
Acuña-Fariña +74 more
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The illusions of researchers in the biography of Al-Sharif Al-Radi
مجلة كلية الفقه, 2007 The purpose of this research is to seek out the delusions in it of researchers and students of the biography of Al-Sharif Al-Radi Abu Al-Hassan Al-Musawi (359 AH - 406 AH)، and these people considered them to be unambiguous facts، so this research came ...
Prof.Dr. Hassan Issa Al-Hakim
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Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Machinocene: Illusions of instrumental reason [PDF]
, 2019 In their seminal work, Dialectics of Enlightenment, Horkheimer and Adorno interpreted capitalism as the irrational monetization of nature. In the present work, I analyze three 21st century concepts, Anthropocene, Capitalocene and Machinocene, in light of
Slijepcevic, Predrag
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Physiological Mechanisms Underlying Motion-Induced Blindness [PDF]
, 2008 Visual disappearance illusions - such as motion-induced blindness (MIB) - are commonly used to study the neural underpinnings of visual perception. In such illusions a salient visual target becomes perceptually invisible.
Camilo Libedinsky +2 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A green, freeform manufacturing approach that utilizes robust aqueous two‐phase systems to create intricate and scalable photonic structures and non‐planar mechanochromic hydrogel actuators from plant‐based hydroxypropyl cellulose. This approach broadens the structural possibilities of sustainable photonic devices and mechanochromic systems, offering ...
Xiao Song +14 more
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Object-Based Warping During Distance Discriminations by Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus apella) [PDF]
Animal Behavior and CognitionHumans and nonhuman animals misperceive the world. However, they do not always share the same misperceptions. Vickery and Chun (2010) reported a visual illusion, object-based warping, wherein distances between stimuli contained within an object were ...
Joseph W. McKeon +2 more
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Illusions of general relativity in Brans-Dicke gravity [PDF]
, 1999 Contrary to common belief, the standard tenet of Brans-Dicke theory reducing to general relativity when omega tends to infinity is false if the trace of the matter energy-momentum tensor vanishes.
A. Banerjee +49 more
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