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Language Understanding and Knowledge of Meaning

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
In recent years the view that understanding a language requires knowing what its words and expressions mean has come under attack. One line of attack attempts to show that while knowledge can be undermined by Gettier-style counterexamples, language ...
Mitchell Green
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Estimating the Private Value of Financial Statement Statistics Estimation de la valeur privée des statistiques des états financiers

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We develop a method for estimating the private value of knowing the future realization of some financial statistics, and then we apply the measure to the familiar ratios from the DuPont decomposition of return on equity. The estimation is grounded in the standard rational expectations model, adapted to accommodate relative risk aversion, and ...
Russell Lundholm, Xin Zheng
wiley   +1 more source

Ole Pettit and other unidentified men.

Photo of a group of men including Ole Pettit (back row left)

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Genealogical notes of Elizabeth Pettit and Benjamin Bell

, 2014
Genealogical notes of Elizabeth Pettit and Benjamin Bell. Lists dates of birth for Benjamin Bell and Elizabeth and includes birth dates for ten children.

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Using Financial Accounting Information to Estimate the Income Shifting of US Multinationals Utilisation des renseignements comptables pour estimer le transfert de revenus des multinationales américaines

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Existing estimates of how much income US multinational corporations (MNCs) shift out of the United States differ dramatically, and most cannot identify which specific firms do the shifting. We use data from firms' public financial reports to derive firm‐year estimates of US MNCs' outbound income shifting.
Scott D. Dyreng, Robert Hills, Kevin S. Markle   +2 more
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Pettit, Joseph Mayo

Original scan done by Digital Initiatives Department, 2010(left to right) John Lang, Elaine Lang, Ken Weiss, Florence Pettit, and President Pettit (painting by Jacob Van ...

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Liquid Assemblies: An Institutional Design for Liquid Democracy

Constellations, EarlyView.
Chiara Valsangiacomo Balmelli, Christina Isabel Zuber   +1 more
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What political theory can learn from conceptual engineering: The case of “corruption”

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Conceptual change is commonplace in political theory. Recent scholarship argues that improving a concept, or “engineering” it, can sharpen its normative and explanatory power. This article illustrates what political theory can learn from conceptual engineering (CE) by examining the evolution of “corruption” as a case study.
Emanuela Ceva, Patrizia Pedrini
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The Right to Stand and the Democratic Value of Elections

Constellations, EarlyView.
Annabelle Lever
wiley   +1 more source

What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
wiley   +1 more source