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The paradoxes of strict implication

The paradoxes of strict implication

... class of impossible propositions do in fact imply any proposition, and that the members of a certain class of necessary propositions are in fact implied by any proposition... The first o[r] ...

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Thinking
the Impossible

Thinking the Impossible

... For certain, it is pastime to think differently. Continuing to do so will only result in being left behind, academically, professionally, and personally. Why not become college teachers of a vision of something ...

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  Thinking the Impossible
Arguments for Impossible Worlds in Semantics

MoL 2016 20: Thinking the Impossible Arguments for Impossible Worlds in Semantics

... The formal apparatus of possible worlds, [. . . ], was introduced in Kripke (1959) as a tool for investigating the semantic properties of certain formal systems. There has since been, and continues to be, much ...

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BD . Thus PS QR implies that AandC lie on the same side of BD . However, this is impossible because we know that AandC lie on opposite sides of BD (the

BD . Thus PS QR implies that AandC lie on the same side of BD . However, this is impossible because we know that AandC lie on opposite sides of BD (the

... and the formula in the exercise follows from this and the fact that sin β equals cos (90 − β). 5. First of all, we translate the problem into more mathematical terms. We are given perpendicular lines X (Queen’s Road) and ...

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Opinion of the Committee on External Economic Relations for the Political Affairs Committee on the enlargement of the European Community and relations with other European countries. Session Documents 1991, Document A3-0077/91/ANNEX, 14 May 1991

Opinion of the Committee on External Economic Relations for the Political Affairs Committee on the enlargement of the European Community and relations with other European countries. Session Documents 1991, Document A3-0077/91/ANNEX, 14 May 1991

... Certain problems remain which are impossible to ignore: political life is still much less democratic than in Western Europe; the situation as regards human rights and respect for the ide[r] ...

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Remarks on subversive performance at the trial of Giulio Cesare Vanini (1618 19)

Remarks on subversive performance at the trial of Giulio Cesare Vanini (1618 19)

... equally impossible to discern whether the above refutation is in itself a mask; in which case the Ampitheatrum would indeed be an accurate representation of Vanini’s thought which the author has judged it prudent ...

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Impossible worlds

Impossible worlds

... One can of course resist these moves in various ways. One could flatly deny that epistemic and counterfactual concepts are hyperintensional. Perhaps we really do know all consequences of what we know, and perhaps ...

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Development of a Human Herpesvirus 6 Species Specific Immunoblotting Assay

Development of a Human Herpesvirus 6 Species Specific Immunoblotting Assay

... At present, if a patient has both p100 and 101K antibodies, on the basis of our immunoblotting assay, there are two possible ex- planations: (i) a cross-reaction between HHV-6A and HHV-6B antibodies (a patient infected ...

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The “Commodification” of Knowledge in the Global Information Society

The “Commodification” of Knowledge in the Global Information Society

... of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society” of 22 May 2001 contains several regulations on net security, 5 while the “Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the ...

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Handling Inconsistency in Knowledge Bases

Handling Inconsistency in Knowledge Bases

... connected because we’re the only trans people that he ...life?” Because it’s like, “So, how’s your mom?” [laughs] “How are things going…?” I have these almost close encounters [with trans ...group,” ...

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Report drawn up on behalf of the committee on budgetary control on the budgetary control aspects of the Joint Research Centre establishment at Ispra  EP Working Documents 1981 1982, Document 1 59/81, 30 March 1981

Report drawn up on behalf of the committee on budgetary control on the budgetary control aspects of the Joint Research Centre establishment at Ispra EP Working Documents 1981 1982, Document 1 59/81, 30 March 1981

... The Committee on Budgetary Control found it impossible to reconcile the approval by the financial controller of the transfers in question particularly because Article 34 of the Financial[r] ...

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Systematic reviews as a “lens of evidence”: determinants of cost-effectiveness of breast cancer screening

Systematic reviews as a “lens of evidence”: determinants of cost-effectiveness of breast cancer screening

... Because of heterogeneity in methods, background unemployment rates, and population characteristics, it is impossible to conclude on any real differences in the geographic settings.24,36,[r] ...

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Whose Retirement Crisis Is It, Anyway?

Whose Retirement Crisis Is It, Anyway?

... Other presenters introduced data that tended to brighten the outlook for most retirees or defuse the darker predictions. Hurst of the Booth School argued that most people need less money as they get older, because ...

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It appears that certain aphasiacs...

It appears that certain aphasiacs...

... a certain amount of agitation. At a certain point, the knowledge merchant sitting closest to him (Beta) leans over and murmurs: “Have you seen the light fixture? You know, it’s really a spider, and the ...

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An Wholistic Approach to Web Applications Maintenance

An Wholistic Approach to Web Applications Maintenance

... party. Because of heterogeneousity of such Web applications, the maintenance becomes a cumbersome process and becomes impossible to predict maintenance cost using traditional models and ...

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Estimating the distribution of demersal fishing effort from VMS data using hidden Markov models

Estimating the distribution of demersal fishing effort from VMS data using hidden Markov models

... Inferences about fishing state are obviously improved if some data with known fishing states are available. While a sample of known-state data are available they have not yet been used because there are some data ...

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Publication bias: what is it? How do we measure it? How do we avoid it?

Publication bias: what is it? How do we measure it? How do we avoid it?

... interpretations. Because of the relatively small number of studies in typical meta-analyses, statistical tests may fail to detect funnel-plot asymmetry even if it ...

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WHERE DID THE BLUE SPECTRAL SHIFT INSIDE THE UNIVERSE COME FROM?

WHERE DID THE BLUE SPECTRAL SHIFT INSIDE THE UNIVERSE COME FROM?

... Therefore, a blue spectral shift is a common law of nature, significantly present in the universe because of the rotation of the whole volume. The objects closer to the centre rotate relatively slowly and the ...

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Parameterized complexity : permutation patterns, graph arrangements, and matroid parameters

Parameterized complexity : permutation patterns, graph arrangements, and matroid parameters

... Efficient computation is one of the main focal points of computer science. Since the beginnings of the field, researchers have attempted to either find algorithms minimizing resources exerted for obtaining the correct ...

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What is gluten- why is it special?

What is gluten- why is it special?

... Wheat gluten has an immense impact on human nutrition as it largely determines the processing properties of wheat flour, and in particular the ability to make leavened breads, other baked products, pasta and noodles. ...

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