Reasons, rationality, and opaque sweetening: Hare's “No Reason” argument for taking the sugar
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 328-350, June 2026.Abstract Caspar Hare presents a compelling argument for “taking the sugar” in cases of opaque sweetening: you have no reason to take the unsweetened option, and you have some reason to take the sweetened one. I argue that this argument fails—there is a perfectly good sense in which you do have a reason to take the unsweetened option. I suggest a way to
Ryan Doody
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Testing Purchasing Power Parity in Transition Countries: Evidence from Structural Breaks [PDF]
This study examines the validity of the purchasing power parity (PPP) in 8 transition countries for monthly data from 1992:1 to 2009:1. While results from both the ADF unit root and the KPSS unit root test indicate that PPP does not hold for Bulgaria ...
Ali Acaravci, Ilhan Ozturk
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Symbol-Flipping Based Decoding of Generalized Low-Density Parity-Check Coded Constructed over GF(q)
, 2006 An efficient symbol-flipping based decoding algorithm designed for nonbinary Generalized Low-Density Parity-Check (GLDPC) codes is proposed. By extending the concept of the Weighted Bit Flip Voting (WBFV) algorithm designed for binary Hamming-code based ...
Kuo, F-C., Hanzo, L.
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Psychological risk factors for lumbopelvic pain before, during, and after pregnancy: a systematic review. [PDF]
BMC Pregnancy ChildbirthGregoor M +9 more
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Quasi purchasing power parity: Structural change in the Mexican peso/us dollar real exchange rate [PDF]
This paper analyzes whether the real exchange-rate of the Mexican peso/US dollar revert to a long-run equilibrium value, and whether this value is unique. We use a method for testing stationarity, that allows for an unknown number of structural breaks in
Lorena Medina, Antonio E. Noriega
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Association between <i>in vitro</i> fertilization and preeclampsia: a multicenter cohort study with subgroup analysis by maternal age, BMI, and parity. [PDF]
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)Yu P +7 more
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Testing Purchasing Power Parity for the New EU Members and Turkey : Panel Cointegration Analysis with Disaggregated CPI [PDF]
This study applies multivariate panel cointegration technique to evaluate PPP hypothesis by using consumer price sub-indices of new EU member transition economies and Turkey. We aim not only to compare parameter estimates across the sectors of an economy
Hulya Saygili, Mesut Saygili
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Demographic Variation in Prenatal Care Coordination Receipt and Resulting Birth Outcomes: Evidence From the Wisconsin Medicaid Population. [PDF]
J Public Health Manag PractMallinson DC, Green TL, Gillespie KH.
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A measurement to analyze the relative change in the Absolute Parity of Power Purchase: An application to the European Union [PDF]
In the present paper an index to measure the changes in the Absolute Purchasing Power Parity. in the short term of a group of territories that conform an unique market, using the information of the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices and the Exchange ...
Alejandro Rodriguez Caro +2 more
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Prevalence of chronic venous disorders and its risk factors among rural adults in Tamil Nadu, South India. [PDF]
J Vasc Surg Venous Lymphat DisordPaul JS +4 more
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