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Narrative Explanation and Redescription

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1974
Over the past decade numerous philosophers have devoted considerable effort to explicating and defending the claim that narrative can be a satisfactory form of explanation. Much of this interest in narrative has taken the form of a reaction against the covering-law model of explanation-particularly against the claim that that model is applicable to ...
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Algorithms for Redescription Mining

2017
The aim of redescription mining is to find valid redescriptions for given data, query language, similarity relation, and user-specified constraints. In other words, we need to explore the search space consisting of query pairs from the query language, looking for those pairs that have similar enough support in the data and that satisfy the other ...
Esther Galbrun, Pauli Miettinen
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Reflection-Reflexivity-Redescription

Research news - IATEFL Research SIG, 2007
The article has three purposes: first, to navigate the reader through the three Rs in action research: reflection, reflexivity and redescription, representing the three stages in the personal and professional development of a teacher ; second, to encourage the reader to embark on an action research project ; and third, to leave the reader with rather ...
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Explanation as Metaphorical Redescription

Metaphor and Symbol, 1998
That scientists employ metaphors is not disputed. Metaphors serve as heuristic tools for suggesting new hypotheses, new areas of research, and new research strategies. They also function as rhetorical devices for the communication of scientific ideas.
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Redescription

2022
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Rationality and Equivalent Redescriptions

1985
In an essay on risk perception, Kenneth Arrow writes: “The concept of rationality has been basic to most economic analysis.”1 Arrow has a specific conception of rationality in mind, a major implication of which is the expected utility hypothesis. This hypothesis says that a rational individual assesses alternative choices in terms of expected utility —
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Redescription mining on data with background network information

Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023
Matej Mihelčić
exaly  

redescription, n.

2023
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Redescription mining for analyzing local limiting conditions: A case study on the biogeography of large mammals in China and southern Asia

Ecological Informatics, 2021
Esther Galbrun, Hui Tang, Anu Kaakinen
exaly  

Death by Redescription

Philosophia, 2022
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