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Generics favor stability

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Humans seek to predict, explain, and control their environments. Generalizations—like those expressed by “children like candy” and “cigarettes cause cancer”—provide one resource to facilitate these tasks. We develop a proposal tying the acceptability judgments of generics to the psychological functions of generalizations.
Katherine Ritchie, Ny Vasil
wiley   +1 more source

Nationalist–Feminine Bifurcation: The Construction of National Morality Through Gender Regimes

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of nationalist–feminine bifurcation to analyse how nationalist–populist regimes construct moral orders through gendered representations. It explores how women are simultaneously portrayed as the idealized ‘national woman’ and the excluded ‘moral threat’. Through a comparative discourse analysis of four cases—
Muhammed Ramazan Demirci
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding lightning leaders

open access: yes
a lightning flash is defined by the initiation and multiple development of leaders. But lightning leaders are still poorly understood. Since most of my atmospheric electricity has been focused on lightning that means that it has been devoted to ...
Montañá Puig, Juan
core  

Order of Explanation: Having it Both Ways

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Order‐of‐explanation objections say that some philosophical view implies p$p$ because q$q$, when it's more natural to say that q$q$ because p$p$; and since such mirroring explanations are presumed to be incompatible, the targeted view must be in conflict with the intuitive explanation.
Kenneth Black
wiley   +1 more source

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