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Possible Worlds, Possible Minds
2020Abstract Across the world and across history, adults have developed widely divergent beliefs about people and their minds and actions, capacities and limits. Yet, these spring from, and depart from, early childhood theories, which are remarkably similar worldwide.
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Possible Selves, Possible Futures
Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2015This qualitative study explored the external and internal reasons involved in students’ decisions to return to college after an extended absence. Specifically, it sought to explore the role of students’ concepts of who they might be (or want to avoid becoming) in the college and career domains of their lives, their possible selves.
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The Possibilities of Encounter
2016Encounters, it seems, are everywhere and nowhere. The recent proliferation of work on encounters within Human Geography and across the social sciences demonstrates an emergent concern for engaging encounters as points of analytical interest. This chapter presents the recent work on urban encounters in context and highlights two important lineages of ...
Wilson, Helen F., Darling, Jonathan
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Journal of the Philosophy of History, 2016
Several kinds of historical alternatives are distinguished. Different kinds of historical alternatives are valuable to the practice of history for different reasons. Important uses for historical alternatives include representing different sides of historical disputes; distributing chances of different outcomes over alternatives; and offering ...
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Several kinds of historical alternatives are distinguished. Different kinds of historical alternatives are valuable to the practice of history for different reasons. Important uses for historical alternatives include representing different sides of historical disputes; distributing chances of different outcomes over alternatives; and offering ...
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SIAM Review, 2007
How does one determine a surface which is as flat as possible, such as those created by soap film surfaces? What does it mean to be as flat as possible? In this paper we address this question from two distinct points of view, one local and one global in nature.
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How does one determine a surface which is as flat as possible, such as those created by soap film surfaces? What does it mean to be as flat as possible? In this paper we address this question from two distinct points of view, one local and one global in nature.
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Husserl Studies, 1984
My investigation into the nature of the modal concepts Husserl employs is motivated by the expectation that we may thereby be able to gain a deeper understanding of some of his crucial philosophical moves. The immediate stimulus for such an enquiry, however, was provided by Jaakko Hintikka’s book The Intentions of Intentionality in which he attempts an
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My investigation into the nature of the modal concepts Husserl employs is motivated by the expectation that we may thereby be able to gain a deeper understanding of some of his crucial philosophical moves. The immediate stimulus for such an enquiry, however, was provided by Jaakko Hintikka’s book The Intentions of Intentionality in which he attempts an
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Decision Analysis, 2015
Possibility engineering is a variant of decision analysis that focuses on highlighting a robust set of acceptable courses of action that satisfy a decision maker’s value constraints rather than identifying and prescribing a single, optimal course of action.
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Possibility engineering is a variant of decision analysis that focuses on highlighting a robust set of acceptable courses of action that satisfy a decision maker’s value constraints rather than identifying and prescribing a single, optimal course of action.
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The possibility of possibility.
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Conceivability and Possibility
2014AbstractThis article examines some philosophical questions about knowledge of modality, including how we determine whether a proposition is necessary or contingent and what procedures to use for recognizing possibility. It maintains that virtually anything is conceivable, and that conceivability is therefore incapable of providing a reliable test for ...
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