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A Study on Pre-service Teachers' Discourse about Infinitesimals, Infinite Numbers, and Limits
Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics, 2021 This study investigated seven pre-service teachers’ (who studied analysis) conceptions about infinitesimals, infinite numbers, and explanation methods of limits. Some pre-service teachers thought that infinitesimals and infinite numbers existed.
Seungju Baek, Jihyun Lee
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Semantic Incommensurability and Empirical Comparability: The Case of Lorentz and Einstein
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2004 Semantic incommensurability is understood as non-translatability of concepts taken from different theories. My aim is to give a rational reconstruction of the notion of incommensurability underlying the writings of Feyerabend and the later Kuhn.
Martin Carrier
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Journal of Political Ecology, 2021 Extractive industries increasingly use compensation measures to silence opposition, divide communities and stop resistance. Cerrejón, Colombia's largest transnational coal mining corporation, has a long history of damaging Indigenous Wayúu, Afro ...
Jacqueline Elyse Gilbert +2 more
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Exploring Irrational Number Learning Using the Plithogenic Hypothesis Method: Integrating Incommensurability, Decimal Representations, and Cognitive Conflict [PDF]
Neutrosophic Sets and SystemsThis dissertation aimed to formulate a theory regarding high school students' learning of irrational num bers with the plithogenic hypothesis method as a modeling instructional approach for incommensurability, decimal expansions, and cognitive conflict ...
Daniel Alberto Vaderrama Martinez +2 more
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Putnam, Kuhn e a relatividade conceitual
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2016 The understanding of conceptual relativity in Putnam’s and Kuhn’s writings should not be restricted to the claim that the existence is relative to, but not in virtue of, a conceptual scheme.
Robinson Guitarrari
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Education and the Formative Power of Hermeneutic Practice
Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2017 This paper seeks to clarify the educational role and effects of hermeneutic practice. The argument is that far from becoming irrelevant to the ever changing needs of the social economy, the humanities and especially the hermeneutic practices on which ...
J.R. Nicholas Davey
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Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2009 This paper discusses subcomparatives with ‘incommensurable’ adjectives (e.g. beautiful and intelligent), which have received little attention in the literature so far. This is surprising, as the topic is of great importance for the current discussion with respect to the choice between a vague predicate analysis and degree-based approaches to ...
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Semantic Incommensurability and Scientific Realism [PDF]
, 2007 This paper reviews the situation with respect to the referential approach to the problem of semantic incommensurability. It argues that the thesis of semantic incommensurability does not pose a significant threat to scientific realism.
Sankey, Howard
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents the first systematic review of scholarship applying Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework in New Zealand educational research, drawing on 30 peer‐reviewed studies published between 2000 and 2025. Following PRISMA guidelines, studies were coded for Bourdieusian concepts applied, depth of theoretical application ...
Liuning Yang
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When I say … pragmatism. [PDF]
Med EducMedical Education, Volume 60, Issue 10, Page 1074-1075, October 2026.
Alfakhry G, Sims D, Lindorff A.
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