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Developing Students Ability To Write Mathematical Proof By Polya Method [PDF]
, 2011 Both writing and reading a proof is equally not easy. Some mathematicians attested that students found difficulties in mathematical proving. Mathematics and mathematics education experts like Jones (1997, 2001), Weber (2001), and Smith (2006) found that ...
Kodirun, Kodirun
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Coalition-proof equilibrium [PDF]
, 1996 We characterize the agreements that the players of a noncooperative game may reach when they can communicate prior to play, but they cannot reach binding agreements: A coalition-proo[ equilibrium is a correlated strategy from which no coalition has an ...
Moreno, Diego, Wooders, John
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Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
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A Communication Proof Equilibrium Concept [PDF]
, 1990 This paper proposes an equilibrium concept for the classes of environments in which players can cornmunicate with each other but cannot rnake binding agreernents. This Cornmunication-proof equilibrium is intended to be regarded as an extension of both
Ferreira, José Luis
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Redeeming Relative Value: Indexicality and Consequentializing Agent‐Centered Norms
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Robert Nozick doubted forms of consequentialism that employ so‐called “agent‐relative value” because he found them “gimmicky.” This doubt has been sharpened by Don Regan, Mark Schroeder, and others into the objection that agent‐relative value lacks the practical importance we associate with good simpliciter.
Nathan Robert Howard
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Political Fictionality: Vladislav Surkov and the Rise of the Authorial State
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article introduces the concept of political fictionality as a theoretical framework for analyzing the convergence of literary authorship and political power in Russia during the Putin era, using Vladislav Surkov—a longtime presidential advisor and ideologue as well as fiction writer under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitskii—as its principal ...
Ekaterina Vassilieva
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OksidentWithin a theistic framework, arguments regarding the existence or nonexistence of God require a certain level of intellectual background on the part of the interlocutor.
Bayram Çınar
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Avicenna on the PSR and Causal Necessity in the Natural World
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Avicenna's account of causal necessity in the natural world is a key part of his metaphysical system and it is also historically significant. Yet, there is little scholarly discussion of the philosophical basis of his view. This is surprising not only because the topic is important, but also because the view is challenging to interpret ...
Kara Richardson
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No History Without a Method: Anticipation and Other Bad Contexts
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues for the centrality of methodological awareness in writing the history of philosophy. It does this by analysing and comparing different interpretive proposals presented by those engaged with past philosophical texts. Taking the literature on Thomas Hobbes from past and present century as an example, it shows the merits of ...
Ieva Höhne
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Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity
Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 374-386, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT Drawing on the contemporary taxonomy of the metaphysics of race, this paper shows that Kant's theory of race occupies a distinct metaphysical position on race. Second, it argues that Kant's metaphysics of race inherently produces racist claims.
Reza Mosayebi
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