Philosophy of Logic & Language
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Michael LaBossiere [LaBossiere, Michael]

1. The whole, X, has properties A, B, C, etc. 2. Therefore the parts of X have properties A,B,C, etc. That this line of reasoning is fallacious is made clear ...
( Category: Logic & Language March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-11 | Author:Daniel Tammet

Hví svo þrúðgu þú þokuhlassi, súlda norn! um sveitir ekur? Þjér mun eg offra, til árbóta kú og konu og kristindómi. [Goddess of drizzle, driving your big cartloads of mist ...
( Category: Linguistics Reference March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Strawson, P. F.

These definitions1 are exactly parallel to the rules for ‘α = 1’ and ‘— α = 1’; for the two defining expressions are respectively the paraphrases of ‘— α = ...
( Category: Logic & Language March 4,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2018-07-03 | Author:Jason Gale [Gale, Jason]

Chapter 8: Real Life Examples of Facial Expressions at Work There are many people who cannot go beyond the basics of facial profiling to understand what is going on with ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics March 1,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-03-29 | Author:Julian Baggini [Baggini, Julian]

See also 21. The power of suggestion 30. Flattery 46. Logically consistent nonsense 86. The power of bold assertion 51. Meet Mr. Loophole Legality and morality I did nothing wrong. ...
( Category: Logic & Brain Teasers March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Samantha Kleinberg

Figure 6-9. Histogram of significance scores for a set of causal relationships. The light grey area (centered on zero, meaning insignificant) represents spurious relationships, and the black bars are genuine ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics February 27,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-26 | Author:Ruggero J. Aldisert

How wide the sphere of the duty of care in negligence is to be laid depends ultimately upon the courts’ assessment of the demands of society for protection from the ...
( Category: Legal Education Profession February 27,2020 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2018-11-15 | Author:Michael Evan Gold

2. Using an Analogy to Find the Facts Analogies can be used to find facts. Fact finding is beyond the scope of this book, but an illustration from daily life ...
( Category: Legal Education Writing February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-10 | Author:Steven Schuster [Schuster, Steven]

Why do policy changes seem to be stuck at one place? Balancing feedback loops are the stabilizing force in systems. When they are at work, you should notice very few ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving February 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Weston, Anthony;

Consider this intriguing little argument, for example: No one has yet had sex in space. No one has admitted to it, of course. But suppose, just for the sake of ...
( Category: Reference January 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-02 | Author:Bound Alberti, Fay;

The Complexities of Loneliness Among the Elderly The experience of loneliness in old age is not universal, or inevitable. It is dependent on the dominant ideologies of ageing and social ...
( Category: History January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Cappelen, Herman; Dever, Josh; & Josh Dever

The third sentence of this narrative continues to report James’ thought, but does so without saying (for example) ‘James thought that’ or ‘James thought “…”’. Free indirect discourse has interesting ...
( Category: Semantics January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-02 | Author:Werner Hamacher & Gerhard Richter & Ann Smock

( Category: Criticism & Theory January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-21 | Author:Cappelen, Herman; Dever, Josh; & Josh Dever

1 These are offensive terms, and shouldn’t be bandied about casually. We won’t, of course, be using them to describe or label anyone. But even the mention of such terms ...
( Category: Philosophy of Logic & Language January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-04 | Author:Stephen T. Asma [Asma, Stephen T.]

We’ve tuned the theory as best we can, at this juncture. Some of our instruments are more obscure than others; some intonation is dodgy, some strings missing, and valves broken. ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )