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A Theory of Humanity: Part 2—Conditions for True Universalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The currently used humanity model is chaotic, devoid of logic or coherence. In Part 1 of this two-part paper, we examined human traits of a scientific model in absence of ‘born sinner’ starting point.
Islam, M. Rafiqul
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Motivated causal judgments and responsibility for civilian casualties in military conflicts

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Causal judgments are ubiquitous in politics and crucial for assigning responsibility and blame. Cognitive science has demonstrated that people are more likely to pick factors as “causal” when they make a difference for the outcome across a range of counterfactual scenarios, with the scenarios sampled based on statistical and prescriptive ...
Dimiter Toshkov, Honorata Mazepus
wiley   +1 more source

City Slicker or Country Bumpkin?—Distinguishing Urban and Rural Residents From Subtle Facial Cues

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 350-366, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Stereotypes characterize urban and rural residents as differing in traits, values and social outcomes. Here, we examined how people's stereotypes about urban and rural residents differ, testing their validity using a lens model. Results showed that participants detected whether people resided in urban or rural areas from photos across three ...
McLean G. Morgan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hegel's Theory of Absolute Spirit: Reflexive Practices in Hegel's Social Philosophy

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 96-114, March 2026.
Abstract This paper argues that Hegel's concept of absolute spirit should be understood as central to his social philosophy. Rather than designating a metaphysical endpoint, absolute spirit refers to reflexive practices—art, religion, and philosophy—through which societies critically engage with the norms and assumptions that structure social life ...
Markus Gante
wiley   +1 more source

In Defense of Brogaard-Salerno Stricture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Brogaard and Salerno (2008) argued that counter-examples to contraposition, strengthening the antecedent, and hypothetical syllogism involving subjunctive conditionals only seem to work because they involve a contextual fallacy where the context assumed ...
Silva, Matheus
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Model pluralism for logic

open access: yesNoûs, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 136-160, March 2026.
Abstract It is well‐recognized in the sciences that a multitude of nonequivalent models are used by researchers to fulfill a range of goals, even for the same target system, a result known broadly as model pluralism. The possibility of the same form of pluralism occurring in logic, however, has not been adequately considered.
Ben Martin
wiley   +1 more source

Ideal Reasoners don’t Believe in Zombies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The negative zombie argument concludes that physicalism is false from the premises that p ∧¬q is ideally negatively conceivable and that what is ideally negatively conceivable is possible, where p is the conjunction of the fundamental physical truths and
Fraga Dantas, Danilo
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Using E‐portfolios to Identify Threshold Concepts in Removable Prosthodontics

open access: yesJournal of Dental Education, Volume 90, Issue 2, Page 204-210, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Training in removable prosthodontics traditionally includes a preclinical laboratory component that precedes clinical exposure. Students struggle to relate the laboratory component to clinical work, because successful learning in removable prosthodontics involves many threshold concepts, some of which have been identified ...
Edward Waters, Delyse Leadbeatter
wiley   +1 more source

From Logical Calculus to Logical Formality—What Kant Did with Euler’s Circles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
John Venn has the “uneasy suspicion” that the stagnation in mathematical logic between J. H. Lambert and George Boole was due to Kant’s “disastrous effect on logical method,” namely the “strictest preservation [of logic] from mathematical encroachment ...
Lu-Adler, Huaping
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The Impact of Shape on the Perception of Euler Diagrams [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Euler diagrams are often used for visualizing data collected into sets. However, there is a significant lack of guidance regarding graphical choices for Euler diagram layout.
C. Gurr   +11 more
core   +3 more sources

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