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“DO YOU WANT TO BE KRAMPUS?” Santa Claus, globality and locality of Christmas tradition

Hungarian Studies Yearbook, 2020
In this paper the author argues that the Christmas holidays, notwithstanding their international standing as a religious and commercial season, are most productively understood as a glocal phenomena, a concept intended to link the local with the global ...
Kürti László
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Portrait du Père Noël en Docteur Faust

Arts et Savoirs, 2015
En 1946, le poète américain E.E.Cummings fait paraître une brève pièce de théâtre satirique : Santa Claus. A Morality. Cette pièce se présente comme une réécriture burlesque du mythe de Faust, et Cummings en assume le caractère allégorique.
Carole Rebillon
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Santa claus meets hypergraph matchings [PDF]

ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 2008
We consider the restricted assignment version of the problem of max-min fair allocation of indivisible goods, also known as the Santa Claus problem . There are m items and n players.
Arash Asadpour, Uriel Feige, Amin Saberi
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What to Say When There Is Nothing to Talk about

Crítica, 2019
In Reference without Referents, Mark Sainsbury aims to provide an account of reference that honours the common-sense view that sentences containing empty names like “Vulcan” and “Santa Claus” are entirely intelligible, and that many such sentences ...
Mircea Dumitru, Frederick Kroon
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The Sense of Existence

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023
If I see, hear, or touch a sparrow, the sparrow seems real to me. Unlike Bigfoot or Santa Claus, it seems to exist; I will therefore judge that it does indeed exist.
Alexandre Billon
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Default Agnosticism

Religions, 2021
Agnosticism has always had its fair amount of criticism. Religious believers often described the first agnostics as infidels and it is not uncommon to see them described as somewhat dull fence-sitters. Moreover, the undecided agnostic stance on belief in
Francis Jonbäck
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Negación y existencia: El problema de los nombres vacíos

Logos: Revista de Lingüística, Literatura y Filosofía, 2022
En este escrito se discutirá si tienen significado las oraciones que contienen nombres vacíos y si hay proposiciones verdaderas que contienen nombres vacíos.
Rafael Miranda Rojas
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What can economics teach us about Santa Claus? [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper we sketch a theory about the role of supernatural beliefs in incentivizing "good" behavior among children by parents. We present a simple theory on the production and the use of certain supernatural beliefs by parents to influence their ...
Bakó, Barna, Isztin, Péter
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Daguí, Pere (2018). Tractatus formalitatum brevis. Tractatus de differentia

Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia, 2018
Daguí, Pere (2018) Tractatus formalitatum brevis. Tractatus de differentia Text llatí amb traduccions catalana i anglesa per Claus A. Andersen, Rafael Ramis Barceló i Maria Cabré Duran Santa Coloma de Queralt: Obrador Edèndum, IEC, UAB i URV. Bibliotheca
Xavier Calpe Melendres
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Logic is Metaphysics [PDF]

, 2011
Analyzing the position of two philosophers whose views are recognizably divergent, W. O. Quine and M. Dummett, we intend to support a striking point of agreement between them: the idea that our logical principles constitute our principles about what ...
Alves, Daniel Durante Pereira
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