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Incongruity, Vagueness, and Pertinence: A Defence of Noël Carroll’s Incongruity Theory of Humour [PDF]
EstetikaThis article defends Noël Carroll’s incongruity theory of humour from the pressing criticism that his articulation of incongruity is too vague to serve as a key notion of the theory. I first distinguish between two versions of the criticism of vagueness:
Michela Bariselli
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Difficulty Scaling through Incongruity
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2021 In this paper we discuss our work on using the incongruity measure from psychological literature to scale the difficulty level of a game online to the capabilities of the human player.
Rauterberg, Matthias +2 more
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Physiological incongruity of the humero-ulnar joint [PDF]
, 1993 Investigations into the distribution of subchondral bone density in the human elbow have suggested that the geometry of the trochlear notch deviates from a perfect fit with the trochlea, and that the load is transmitted ventrally and dorsally rather than
Löhe, F. +5 more
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Semantic incongruity influences response caution in audio‑visual integration [PDF]
, 2016 Multisensory stimulus combinations trigger shorter reaction times (RTs) than individual single-modal-ity stimuli. It has been suggested that this inter-sensory facilitation effect is found exclusively for semantically congruent stimuli, because ...
Steinweg, Benjamin, Mast, Fred W.
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Consensus molecular subtypes of primary colon tumors and their hepatic metastases
Future Science OA, 2021 Aim: This pilot study aimed to evaluate the congruency in consensus molecular subtypes (CMS) of primary colorectal cancer and corresponding hepatic metastasis (HM).
Yee Chen Lau +3 more
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Purple-Nozzled Yogurt Slingers and Cracks of Heaven: Genital Humour on UrbanDictionary.com
Estudios de Lingüística del Español, 2021 The internet offers possibilities to form communities and share a sense of humour that might not be acceptable in other spheres of public discourse. The internet also provides possibilities to develop and subvert text genres, such as dictionaries. There
Janet Russell
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Incongruent equipartitions of the plane [PDF]
European Journal of Combinatorics, 2020 R. Nandakumar asked whether there is a tiling of the plane by pairwise incongruent triangles of equal area and equal perimeter. Recently a negative answer was given by Kupavskii, Pach and Tardos. Still one may ask for weaker versions of the problem, or for the analogue of this problem for quadrangles, pentagons, or hexagons.
Frettlöh, Dirk, Richter, Christian
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Perspective by incongruity in the performance of dialectical ironic analysis: a disciplined approach [PDF]
, 2020 The importance of dialectic to sociological thought has been recognised by many of the discipline’s most eminent thinkers. Adopting a dialectical world view infused with irony provokes insights revealing logical contradictions, so opening up ...
Watson, Cate
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Prediction Model for Breeding Hardy Geraniums
Horticulturae, 2023 Key message. The success of interspecific hybridization in hardy geranium (Geranium sp.) can be predicted by considering the genetic distance between parental genotypes and using the logistic regression model developed in this study.
Mehrdad Akbarzadeh +4 more
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