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Reason
REASON REASON. For many in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, reason was understood as "right reason." It was a human faculty, divinely founded, that uncovered the world by revealing it, because it was part of the world. Reason was an ontological property of a divinely ordered... Read more |
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polyp
polyp in medicine, a benign tumor occurring in areas lined with mucous membrane such as the nose, gastrointestinal tract (especially the colon), and the uterus. Some polyps are pedunculated tumors, i.e., they grow on stems; others, attached by a broad base, are called sessile. Nasal polyps are... Read more |
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Supersede
SUPERSEDE To obliterate, replace, make void, or useless. Supersede means to take the place of, as by reason of superior worth or right. A recently enacted statute that repeals an older law is said to supersede the prior legislation. A superseding cause is an act of a third person or some... Read more |
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Jurgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas The German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas (born 1929) challenged social science by suggesting that despite appearances to the contrary, human beings are capable of rationality and under some conditions are able to communicate with one another successfully;... Read more |
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Community Service
COMMUNITY SERVICE A sentencing option for persons convicted of crimes in which the court orders the defendant to perform a number of hours of unpaid work for the benefit of the public. A person convicted of a criminal offense may be required to complete a sentence of community service directly or... Read more |
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Hair Loss
Hair loss Definition Hair loss, or alopecia, is total or partial baldness caused by hormonal changes or physical or mental stress . Description Hair loss occurs for many reasons. Some causes, such as hormonal changes, are considered natural, while others signal serious health problems. Some... Read more |
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Utopianism
UtopianismI. UTOPIAS AND UTOPIANISMGeorge KatebBIBLIOGRAPHYII. THE DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTAL COMMUNITIESB. F. SkinnerBIBLIOGRAPHYI. UTOPIAS AND UTOPIANISMIt would seem at first sight that the study of utopianism is not the study of a really delimited subject: the range of the words “utopia” and... Read more |
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Aircraft engines
Flight, Measurements of Piloting an aircraft requires constant scanning and verifying of measurements. Pilots develop a sense of reasonable measurements for routine situations. For non-routine situations, pilots practice in simulators so they can quickly make sense of the... Read more |
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Sailors
Mariners and Their Ships: The Technology of Navigation Sources Magnetic Compass.Accurate navigation on the open ocean requires precise knowledge of a ship’s direction of travel. Experienced sailors can make reasonably good estimations of travel direction based upon... Read more |
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Conditional reasoning = conditional probability? not necessarily.(Report)
...Several prominent theories of conditional reasoning argue that reasoners compute...thus an example of a valid conditional reasoning process known as Modus Tollens...There are three other conditional reasoning processes, one valid and... |
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Everyday conditional reasoning: A working memory-dependent tradeoff between...
...determinant of conditional reasoning performance. There are two accounts describing the conditional inference process, the...working memory capacity in conditional reasoning. The involvement...working memory capacity in conditional reasoning has already been...reasoning ... |
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The effect of emotion on interpretation and logic in a conditional reasoning...
...content on logical reasoning is explored in...participants completed a conditional reasoning task...behavior when reasoning about neutral and...is mortal) and conditional reasoning (e...studies have examined reasoning in anxietyrelated...task involves a conditional rule ... |
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Conditional reasoning in the context of strategy development in the logical...
...operation could also help conditional reasoning improve. Two experiments...specifically conditional reasoning using the material implication...of teaching and practice. Conditional reasoning is thought to occur when people... |
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Conditional reasoning, frequency of counterexamples, and the effect of...
...when asked to reason with conditionals, people are very sensitive...frequency of exceptions to conditional rules and quite insensitive...followed by a set of abstract conditional reasoning problems. The participants...article, we concentrate on conditional reasoning, which involves... |
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Chronometric evidence for memory retrieval in causal conditional reasoning:...
...According to many models of conditional reasoning, correct responses to the...task with familiar causal conditional premises. As predicted...recently proposed a theory of conditional reasoning derived from Johnson-Laird... |
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A META-ANALYSIS OF CONDITIONAL REASONING TESTS OF AGGRESSION
...criteria) of r = .44 across 11 conditional reasoning test of aggression (CRT...using an approach they label "conditional reasoning" (see James et...of others. An illustrative conditional reasoning test item describes... |
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Ordering of information in conditional reasoning.
...studies of deductive reasoning, with hundreds of experimental...debate. Reasoning with conditional statements of the form...truth table task and the conditional inference task. In this paper, we focus on the conditional inference task in which... |
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Deductive reasoning from uncertain conditionals.
...that moment. Plausible reasoning is pervasive in daily life...concerns nearly exclusively conditional arguments. The main aim...under which a deductive conditional argument yields an uncertain...the results to standard conditional reasoning. Review of the...investigation of causal ... |
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Assessing the implicit personality through conditional reasoning.(Brief...
...implicit personality through conditional reasoning. James, Lawrence R. and...rationale for their system, conditional reasoning, and how it is designed...and analysis; how to build conditional reasoning problems to develop... |
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