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Davidson’s Wittgenstein [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Although the later Wittgenstein appears as one of the most influential figures in Davidson’s later works on meaning, it is not, for the most part, clear how Davidson interprets and employs Wittgenstein’s ideas. In this paper,
Hossein Khani, Ali
core   +2 more sources

What Dynamic Approaches Have Taught Us About Cognition and What They Have Not: On Values in Motion and the Importance of Replicable Forms

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Over the past several decades, research in the cognitive sciences has foregrounded the importance of active bodies and their continuous dependence on the changing environment, strengthening the relevance of dynamical models. These models have been steadily developed within the ecological psychology approach to cognition, which arguably ...
Joanna Rączaszek‐Leonardi
wiley   +1 more source

How much time is left? International trends in parenthood expectancy

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2023
Background: Many industrialized societies have experienced increases in life expectancy and in the mean age at first birth (MAFB). This has likely impacted the lifetime that parents share with their children; i.e., parenthood expectancy (PEX ...
Erich Striessnig, Alessandra Trimarchi
doaj   +1 more source

Coronary Angiography in Patients With Left Ventricular Hypertrabeculation/Noncompaction [PDF]

open access: yesTexas Heart Institute Journal
Background Left ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction (LVHT) is a cardiac abnormality of unknown pathogenesis, frequently associated with neuromuscular disorders. The relevance of coronary artery disease (CAD) in LVHT is largely unknown.
Nicolas de Cillia, MD   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Survival and Years of Good Life in Finland in the very long run

open access: yesFinnish Yearbook of Population Research, 2020
In this paper we apply the recently developed wellbeing indicator ‘Years of Good Life’ (YoGL) to Finland, which has the world’s longest annual demographic time series starting in 1722. We combine this with scenarios up to 2100 as developed under the SSP (
Claudia Reiter, Wolfgang Lutz
doaj   +1 more source

Why Later Wittgenstein was not a therapist

open access: yesAufklärung, 2021
Wittgenstein famously regarded philosophy as an activity and not as a body of doctrine. And yet within the secondary literature there is little agreement as to what Wittgenstein took the purpose of that activity to be.
Victor Loughlin
doaj   +1 more source

Paradigms and self-reference: what is the point of asserting paradoxical sentences? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
A paradox, according to Wittgenstein, is something surprising that is taken out of its context. Thus, one way of dealing with paradoxical sentences is to imagine the missing context of use.
Mácha, Jakub
core   +2 more sources

Thresholds for clinical practice that directly link handgrip strength to remaining years of life: estimates based on longitudinal observational data

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
Objective Muscle strength is a powerful predictor of mortality that can quickly and inexpensively be assessed by measuring handgrip strength (HGS). What is missing for clinical practice, however, are empirically meaningful cut-off points that apply to ...
Sergei Scherbov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Earlier Wittgenstein on the Notion of Religious Attitude [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
I defend a new interpretation of Wittgenstein's notion of religious (or ethical) attitude in the Tractatus, one that rejects three key views from the secondary literature: firstly, the view that, for Wittgenstein, the willing subject is a transcendental ...
Chon Tejedor   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Independent Associations of Maternal Education and Household Wealth with Malaria Risk in Children

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
Despite evidence that they play similar but independent roles, maternal education and household wealth are usually conflated in studies of the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) on malaria risk.
José G. Siri
doaj   +1 more source

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