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Sickle cell disease chronic joint pain: Clinical assessment based on maladaptive central nervous system plasticity

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2022
Chronic joint pain (CJP) is among the significant musculoskeletal comorbidities in sickle cell disease (SCD) individuals. However, many healthcare professionals have difficulties in understanding and evaluating it.
Tiago da Silva Lopes   +19 more
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Common Knowledge, Common Attitudes and Social Reasoning

open access: yesBulletin of the Section of Logic, 2021
For as long as there have been theories about common knowledge, they have been exposed to a certain amount of skepticism. Recent more sophisticated arguments question whether agents can acquire common attitudes and whether they are needed in social ...
Richmond H. Thomason
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Distinguishing Practical and Theoretical Reasoning: A Critique of Deanna Kuhn's Theory of Informal Argument

open access: yesInformal Logic, 1996
Deanna Kuhn's theory of informal argumentation (1991) evaluates arguments according to a theory/evidence model where subjects first articulate a theory and then must provide critical testing of alternatives on the basis of evidence.
Matthew Wilks Keefer
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Ex aequo et bono versus Hard Cases in the Light of Modern Metaethics [PDF]

open access: yesAvant, 2018
In the present paper, I argue against the claim that ex aequo and bono adjudication cannot be epistemically objective. I start with a survey of legal rules allowing the parties to resort to ex aequo et bono adjudication.
Izabela Skoczeń
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The (Trans)Formative Power of Purpose and Projectivity

open access: yesJPHE, 2021
The present study illustrates the educational power of purpose and projectivity if our aim is for students to become able to make socially responsible decisions and to act on their judgment.
Ester Fremstad
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REASONS FOR ACTION AND PRACTICAL REASONING [PDF]

open access: yesRatio, 2010
AbstractThis paper seeks a better understanding of the elements of practical reasoning: premises and conclusion. It argues that the premises of practical reasoning do not normally include statements such as ‘I want to ϕ’; that the reasoning in practical reasoning is the same as in theoretical reasoning and that what makes it practical is, first, that ...
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Pollock on Practical Reasoning

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2001
The epistemologist John Pollock has implemented computationally an architecture for a rational agent which he calls OSCAR. OSCAR models both practical and theoretical (or epistemic) reasoning.
David Hitchcock
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Understanding the Quality of Interaction of Complexity Leadership and Social Enterprise based on the Complex Science Lens [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های مدیریت عمومی, 2020
Extended Abstract Abstract Leading complex social constructs and binding to socio-economical goals are two major imperatives in social science research and practice.
Zahra Vafaee   +2 more
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Is Practical Reasoning Presumptive?

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2008
Douglas Walton has done extensive and valuable work on the concepts of presumption and practical reasoning. However, Walton’s attempt to model practical reasoning as presumptive is misguided. The notions of “inference” and of the burden of proof shifting
Christian Kock
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An Analysis and a Critique of Henry Sidgwick’s Ethical Intuitionism [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2011
In this paper, following an analytical-critical method, I will try to give an analysis of Sidgwick’s ethical intuitionism. I will focus on his critical analysis of Common Sense Morality, which he has called “Dogmatic Intuitionism”, and state the moral ...
ali akbar abdol abadi
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