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The myth of the myth of martyrdom
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014AbstractLankford asserts that suicide terrorism is attributable to suicidality. We argue in this commentary that this assertion is not well supported theoretically or empirically. In addition, we suggest that failure to acknowledge religious beliefs as motivationally causal for suicide terrorism may place innocent people at risk of murder in the ...
Yael, Sela, Todd K, Shackelford
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THE MYTH OF THE MYTH OF THE RATIONAL VOTER [PDF]
Critical Review, 2008 ABSTRACT Bryan Caplan’s Myth of the Rational Voter overstates its case against democracy by not dealing with what might be called the historical/instrumentalist argument for democracy. The case for democracy that he attacks is primarily an academic exercise, which makes his argument against that case also an academic exercise.
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Diogenes, 1985
To pose the question of myth and truth is to pose three complementary questions: that of myth, that of truth and that of their relationship. It is also to pose a still more fundamental question: that of knowing if the question of myth and truth is not badly put. a pseudo-problem.
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To pose the question of myth and truth is to pose three complementary questions: that of myth, that of truth and that of their relationship. It is also to pose a still more fundamental question: that of knowing if the question of myth and truth is not badly put. a pseudo-problem.
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2017
Elephants have bigger brains than humans, but less interconnected and, consequently, less developed (adapted from Morgan 1986). The quest for measurement in health care paved the way for the myth of scale, which ultimately assumes that higher dimensions are associated with better organizational performance.
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Elephants have bigger brains than humans, but less interconnected and, consequently, less developed (adapted from Morgan 1986). The quest for measurement in health care paved the way for the myth of scale, which ultimately assumes that higher dimensions are associated with better organizational performance.
Palumbo, R. +7 more
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Myths in "The Myths of the Myths about Behavior Mod in Organizations"
The Academy of Management Review, 1979The article is a response to a critique by Jerry L. Gray concerning behavior modification in organizations. The issues in contention or inaccurately interpreted by Gray include: the role of cognition in behavior modification techniques; the author's understanding of operant conditioning; the predictive aspect of behaviorism; the effectiveness of ...
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PMLA, 1954
This paper is in the nature of a caveat entered against one mode of interpretation to which Joyce's work has been subjected. Many literary works in our time have been hitched onto mythopoeic horses, but Ulysses has been rather worse handled than most, in this regard.
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This paper is in the nature of a caveat entered against one mode of interpretation to which Joyce's work has been subjected. Many literary works in our time have been hitched onto mythopoeic horses, but Ulysses has been rather worse handled than most, in this regard.
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Jung Journal, 2014
This article reviews the theories in the European and American study of mythology from 1685 until the present moment. It invokes the beginnings of this modern academic study in the global explorations of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries and traces the synoptic studies of myth in the nineteenth century and the fragmented studies of myth in the ...
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This article reviews the theories in the European and American study of mythology from 1685 until the present moment. It invokes the beginnings of this modern academic study in the global explorations of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries and traces the synoptic studies of myth in the nineteenth century and the fragmented studies of myth in the ...
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The myth of the myth of invisibility?
Interpreting. International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting, 2016Whether working with hard-of- hearing elderly patients, dealing with distorted communication in psychiatry or speech pathology, interpreting a highly charged police interview or cross-examination, handling a business negotiation where never saying no can still mean no, dealing with idiolects in spoken or signal communication, or establishing rapport in
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The myth of the myth of supervenience
Philosophical Studies, 2018Supervenience is necessary co-variation between two sets of entities (properties, facts, objects, etc.). In the good old days, supervenience was considered a useful philosophical tool with a wide range of applications in the philosophy of mind, metaethics, epistemology, and elsewhere.
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2021
This chapter debunks a series of myths about science and religion. These include the idea that Giordano Bruno and then Galileo Galilei were martyrs of modern science; that Copernicanism was unilaterally opposed by the Church; that Christianity sets faith against evidence; that reason has played no part in Christian thinking over its history; that true ...
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This chapter debunks a series of myths about science and religion. These include the idea that Giordano Bruno and then Galileo Galilei were martyrs of modern science; that Copernicanism was unilaterally opposed by the Church; that Christianity sets faith against evidence; that reason has played no part in Christian thinking over its history; that true ...
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