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Compositionality in Davidson’s Early Work
Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2019 Davidson’s 1965 paper, “Theories of Meaning and Learnable Languages”, has (at least almost) invariably been interpreted, by others and by myself, as arguing that natural languages must have a compositional semantics, or at least a systematic semantics ...
Peter Pagin
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Meaning, moral realism, and the importance of morality [PDF]
, 2020 Many philosophers have suspected that the normative importance of morality depends on moral realism. In this paper, I defend a version of this suspicion: I argue that if teleological forms of moral realism, those that posit an objective purpose to human ...
Zhao, Michael
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Making sense of ourselves and others: a contribution to the community-diversity debate [PDF]
, 2019 In recent years, a debate has played out concerning the relationship between two of Community Psychology's core values: promoting diversity and promoting a sense of community.
Mannarini, Terri, Salvatore, Sergio
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Background: Although previous studies have shown an inverse relation between life meaning and eating disorder symptoms, the correlational nature of this evidence precludes causal inferences. Therefore, this study used an experimental approach to test the
Sanne F. W. van Doornik +4 more
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Functional meaning of rewards and interpersonal deviance in the workplace: The moderating role of basic psychological needs satisfaction [PDF]
International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management, 2019 In this paper, we used self-determination theory to argue that the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness may act as a boundary condition that determines when and how functional meaning of rewards (i.e ...
Konstantinos Papachristopoulos +1 more
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A generic trajectory similarity operator in moving object databases
Egyptian Informatics Journal, 2017 Evaluating similarity between trajectories of moving objects is important for wide range of applications. The existing similarity measures typically define some meaning of similarity and propose algorithms for computing it.
Nehal Magdy +2 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Objective: Parental bereavement by homicide is considered an extremely difficult grief experience; hence it may significantly undermine one's meaning structures.
Rivi Frei-Landau +2 more
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Commentary: Public Health and Civil Liberties in an Era of Bioterrorism [PDF]
, 2002 Safeguarding the public\u27s health, safety, and security took on new meaning and urgency after the attacks on the World Trade Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. The subsequent intentional dispersal of anthrax
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar +8 more
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Frontiers in PsychologyObjectiveThis systematic review aims to evaluate the adequacy of existing assessment tools in measuring the search for meaning in life and the quest for significance, with a focus on identifying gaps in capturing the quest for significance as a distinct ...
Fahd Alsaadi +8 more
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