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Before the Trial: Taxonomic Inference, AIDS, and the Limits of Evidence Appraisal
ABSTRACT Rationale Evidence‐based medicine (EBM) was founded to inform decisions about the care of individual patients. Its most developed appraisal tools, however, are calibrated primarily to the reliability of estimates produced within already constituted reference classes.
Frederick Arthur
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The soul of sophistry: Plato’s “Sophist” 226a9–231b9 revisited [PDF]
This paper argues that the so-called 6th definition of the sophist found in the outer part of Plato's "Sophist" is a methodological passage meant to point out how the sophist is to be pursued properly if he is to be distinguished from the ...
Larsen, Jens Kristian
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PHILOSOPHY, SOPHISTICS AND DIALECTICS IN WESTERN AND CHINESE PHILOSOPHIC PARADIGMS
An analysis of what the concepts and practices of philosophy, dialectics, sophistics are in the context of Western and Chinese paradigms of philosophy, is suggested in the article. Western philosophic tradition is based on the so-called Antique paradigm that exceeds from the idea of attaining happiness and avoiding suffering before the face of alien ...
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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
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Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Royal Titles Bill, 1876: Part 1
Abstract The Royal Titles Bill (1876) proved to be contentious because it raised fraught issues of royal prerogative, constitutional legality, political perspective, parliamentary strategy, journalistic practice, and public opinion. Disraeli insisted that Queen Victoria could choose the supplementary title, empress of India, while Gladstone and his ...
Robert O'Kell
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Plato's "Theaetetus" and "Sophist": What False Sentences Are Not
Plato's Theaetetus rejects four explanations of how someone could falsely believe something. The Sophist accepts an explanation of how someone could falsely believe something.
Rudebusch, George Hilding
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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The most influential philosophers in Wikipedia: a multicultural analysis
We explore the influence and interconnectivity of philosophical thinkers within the Wikipedia knowledge network. Using a dataset of 237 articles dedicated to philosophers across nine different language editions (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German ...
Guillaume Rollin, José Lages
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The Exemplary Rhetor: On Anti-Philosophy and Sophistics in Alain Badiou
This article investigates the ambiguous status of rhetoric, situated between proper philosophy and mere sophistry, through Alan Badiou’s three exemplary figures of thought: the philosopher, the anti-philosopher, and the sophist. With the recent return of the sophist in politics in the form of populist politicians, contemporary rhetorical studies have ...
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ABSTRACT The adult intensive care unit is a complex, high‐acuity environment where critically ill patients frequently cannot communicate their needs, values, or preferences due to altered consciousness, sedation, or neurological impairment. This Discussion paper develops an epistemological framework for family‐centered care in adult intensive care ...
Julie Joseph
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