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Programming with Miracles [PDF]

, 2010
In his seminal book, A Discipline of Programming [EWD 76], Dijkstra proposed that all sequential programs satisfy four laws for their weakest preconditions. By far the catchiest name was reserved for the Law of the Excluded Miracle, which captured the intuition that, started in a given state, a program execution must either terminate or loop forever ...
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Miracles of Czech Medieval Saints

, 2015
The present work focuses on miracles of Czech saints in the period of the early Middle Ages. In the introductory part, the concepts of sanctity and miracles and their development throughout the history are elucidated.
Slavíček, Petr
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

‘Mary Magdalene Rises from the Dust,’ Twice

Religions
Liturgy was the perfect and unparalleled medium for public relations in the Middle Ages, and when it came to relics, it could transform any stone, bone, or a piece of wood into an object worthy of devotion.
Yossi Maurey
doaj   +1 more source

Unmasking assumptions about miracles

, 2013
This thesis examines miracles with a specific focus on how a naturalist world view impacts one's understanding of whether or not they occur. The author's personal journey of understanding miracles is recounted, followed by six assumptions that can affect
Fronius, Lauren
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The Non‐Understandable World of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Therapist's Implicit Understanding and Subsequent Deepened Understanding

Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the concept of non‐understandable in psychotherapy, based on the author's own play therapy with a boy with mild ASD (autism spectrum disorder). ASD is considered to belong to an area beyond comprehension, as psychotherapy is often deemed ineffective for it.
Toshio Kawai
wiley   +1 more source

Saving Sanctity: The Roman Inquisition and the Initial Prosecution of Girolamo Cardano

Religions
The impact of the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reform movement on the ecclesiastical censorship of science, philosophy and magic has been an enduring theme in the historiography of early modern Italy.
Neil Tarrant
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The miracles of Our Lord.

'The "illuminated" gift books which became a feature of British publishing during the 1840s were essentially gift books whose text was often, but not always, taken from the Bible, and whose pages were decorated in colour in a style closely or distantly ...
Longman & Co., publisher., Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879, illustrator.   +1 more
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Miracles

, 1925
The purpose of this treatise is to furnish as com­plete and as clear a treatment of the subject of miracles as possible. Misunderstanding and ignorance more than In­ tended opposition is in all probability the cause or much controversy in this matter ...
Hayes, Francis H.
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