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Aggregation and the Structure of Value
ABSTRACT Roughly, the view I call “Additivism” sums up value across time and people. Given some standard assumptions, I show that Additivism follows from two principles. The first says that how lives align in time cannot, in itself, matter. The second says, roughly, that a world cannot be better unless it is better within some period or another.
Weng Kin San
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Die hantering van neweskikkers en onderskikkers in Afrikaanse woordeboeke
The Treatment of Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions in Afrikaans Dictionaries. Prompted by the discrepancy between the needs for lexicographic assistance with regard to conjunctions and the relative indifference concerning this in lexicographic ...
Nerina Bosman, Anna N. Otto
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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Feature learning in feature-sample networks using multi-objective optimization
Data and knowledge representation are fundamental concepts in machine learning. The quality of the representation impacts the performance of the learning model directly.
Tinós, Renato +2 more
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Non-Consequentialist moral theories posit the existence of moral constraints: prohibitions on performing particular kinds of wrongful acts, regardless of the good those acts could produce. Many believe that such theories cannot give satisfactory verdicts
Lee-Stronach, Chad
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WE, ELF and ELT: Perspectives on English and applied linguistics
Abstract In a paper which originally set the scene for WE study, Braj Kachu argued that the ‘global diffusion of English’ called for a new paradigm of enquiry which recognized the independent status of varieties of English used by communities other than those of Inner Circle native speakers.
Henry Widdowson
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This paper discusses the issue of development of syntactic patterns for explanatory parafrases. To this end, it is necessary to consider two fundamental aspects: the principles of definition and the lexicographic metalanguage.
Virginia Sita Farias
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Composite repetition-aware data structures [PDF]
In highly repetitive strings, like collections of genomes from the same species, distinct measures of repetition all grow sublinearly in the length of the text, and indexes targeted to such strings typically depend only on one of these measures.
A Blumer +16 more
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Abstract This paper presents a two‐stage model for planning a renewable energy portfolio by balancing economic, social and environmental sustainability goals. The first stage addresses a multi‐objective problem where conflictive impacts generated by the energy portfolios should be optimised according to the corresponding economic, social or ...
Amelia Bilbao‐Terol +2 more
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Chicory colour in the colour conceptosphere of language: from blue and brown to chicory colour
On the basis of various discourses (lexicographic, dialectal language, associative, artistic, advertising), we represent a research fragment dedicated to the description of colour perception and obvious chicory, the purpose of which is to create the ...
T. V. Sivova
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