Combining Empirical Data and Philosophical Theories
Concepts, Theories and Empirical Evidence
... In combining economic with cultural factors they found that the dependence of any given place on an industry as well as economic hardship act as powerful preventers of local ...
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Irregular flowering patterns in terrestrial orchids: theories vs empirical data
... Empirical data on many species of terrestrial orchids suggest that their between-year flowering pattern is extremely irregular and ...year. Data on the seasonal growth of leaves and inflorescence of ...
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Type-2 blindsight : empirical and philosophical perspectives.
... 10 of veridical visual experience for certain theories in the philosophy of perception. She argues that type-2 blindsight lacks particularity, fine-grainedness and transparency. According to Brogaard, this means ...
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The Neuroscience of Moral Judgment: Empirical and Philosophical Developments
... Sentimentalist theories do reconcile various observations of lesion patients, but several limitations ...Second, theories focusing on the vmPFC and amygdala are ...
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PP 2009 48: The Logic of Empirical Theories Revisited
... went both ways, and e.g., Carnap also played a role in logical discussions at the time (van Benthem 1978A). Logical methods still dominated ‘neo-positivism’ in the 1950s. This marriage came under attack from several ...
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Empirical tests of sale theories: Hungarian milk prices
... 2 Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary 3 University of Kaposvár, Kaposvár, Hungary Abstract: Th e paper tests various predictions of the sale theory literature, using the retailer specifi c price data ...
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Essays On Asset Pricing Models: Theories And Empirical Tests
... the data-driven window size, such that within the window (i) investors’ information sets don’t greatly change; (ii) there are sufficient observations to achieve estimation ...
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Empirical investigation into alternative theories explaining taxpayer behavior (An)
... Table 4.1 summarizes some of the demographic data for the subjects included in this study. As can be seen in the table, the participants are nearly equal between genders and about 75 percent of the subjects are ...
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An Empirical Analysis of Prominent Theories on the Gender Promotion Gap: Evidence from Panel Data on Law Graduates
... firms decreases over time, I find that male composition does not cause variation in task assignment, and thus does not offer an explanation as to why the gender gap persists. Another experiment suggests that women ...
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Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Alignments for MT: An Empirical Study
... GIZA++) for training word alignment, super- vised methods, which exploit a small amount of human-aligned data, have become increas- ingly popular recently. This work empirically studies the performance of these ...
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A method to evaluate equitable accessibility: combining ethical theories and accessibility-based approaches
... To overcome this problem, they will need to establish to what extent the transport and travel experiences of socially excluded people can be correlated with more readily available standardised measures. Methodologically ...
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Theories and empirical approaches towards political economy of trade policy
... However, empirical literature on endogenous protection which we reviewed in previous chapter showed that other factors including market structure, firm concentration, average earnings, labor intensity, industry ...
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An empirical analysis of behavioral finance theories in international equity markets
... new data set that covers both institutional and individual investors we find, first, that sentiment matters for several stock markets around the world and over intermediate horizons of up to one year and a ...
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A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Agency and Market Theories of Insider Trading
... economic data from a cross-section of countries, I find that countries with more stringent insider trading laws generally have more dispersed equity ownership, more liquid stock markets, and more informative stock ...
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Spinoza: comparative research and philosophical view of empirical findings in contemporary behavioral sciences
... Frederick, 2002). The first bias in the family of representativeness is ‘insensitivity to sample size’ (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974) resulting from mistaken inference emanating from the reliance on a conclusive result ...
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Extending the mental: Philosophical assessments of approaches to the unconscious in Freudian theory and empirical psychology
... 1.2 Different conceptions of unconscious mentality We have now narrowed down the notion of unconscious mentality that this thesis is concerned with. Even within this narrower category of unconscious mentality there are ...
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Combining Theories of Change and Realist Evaluation in practice: Lessons from a research on evaluation study
... whilst combining ToC and RE approaches in the manner of this study may still require a significant investment of time and resources, it seems reasonable to argue that it may generate additional benefits in ...
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Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music
... Volume 8 : Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music. c Publishers, (date). p 309. ppg=317 Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Public Culture and Jdeas ...
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Computational Uses of Philosophical Dialogue Theories
... Ifit is shown, as a result ofthe enquiries just outlined, that people are able to use DC to generate dialogue which is fair and reasonable and not unduly constrained in comparison with[r] ...
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Evaluating the Philosophical Foundations of Development Theories
... What are the impacts of our discussions on teleological ex- planation, and causation to development? We shall start by asserting that the feedback mechanism in the theories confers plasticity to the ...
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