The argument from ignorance and error
Malice and the Ridiculous as Self-ignorance: A Dialectical Argument in Philebus 47d-50e
... The argument depends on conventional values and uses a strategy that divides a pair of contraries into extreme opposites which appear to have no ...Such ignorance is shameful and, by implication, if ...
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Argument of knowledge of a bounded error
... A protocol is introduced to show knowledge of a codeword of Goppa code and Goppa polynomial. Protocol does not disclosure any useful information about the codeword and polynomial coefficients. A related protocol is ...
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On Arguments from Ignorance
... inspectors from the CIA's Iraq Survey Group” found little of interest, then British Prime Min- ister, Tony Blair stated “I have had to accept that the evidence now shows that there were not stockpiles of actual ...
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Deliverance from Error
... the argument by retort: but is there a reasoned answer to their claim?” I reply: “Certainly! The answer to it is that, were the perplexed person to say that he is perplexed, without specifying the problem about ...
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From Akrasia to Quality of Will: A Critical Examination of Accounts of Moral Responsibility and Ignorance
... the argument at hand) that things get messy very quickly, especially when we need to specify such controversial properties of identity, in order to maintain an account of moral ...import. From whence does ...
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Two Types of Argument from Position to Know
... arguments from position to know must observe what I call ...an error for the arguer to take himself to be justified in believing outright that p if the expert herself only takes herself justified to hold ...
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The (Virtue) Epistemology of Political Ignorance
... In his discussion of high-grade knowledge, Jason Baehr (2011) provides three cases—involving a biologist, detective, and historian respectively—as paradigm cases of knowledge that require the exercise of intellectual ...
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Ignorance, incompetence, and the concept of liberty
... Yet such a move, though reasonable enough on the surface, disguises assumptions about the methodology of philosophical and political argument that are quite astonishing. Consider, for instance, what is to be said ...
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Big data big ignorance
... marks from the evaluators were not as high on the list of results as I had ...an error in the algorithm which, as a result of my complaint, they were able to ...
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Knowledge and Ignorance in Reinforcement Learning
... of error we ...of ignorance at future time states, we might choose over-optimistic plans of action that rely on infallible sensors or perfect state ...problem from [Lit96]. A girl returning home ...
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Eating from the Tree of Ignorance
... Jan: The other day, Rohit Parikh came up with an amusing example of the reverse. A case where to prove innocence would have involved showing that one did know. Some policewoman, posing as a teenaged girl, engaged a ...
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From mutual ignorance to ignorance? Youth work and social work in France since 1945
... This parallel draws a portrait of two kinds of youth, not to say two kinds of nation. As we have seen, youth work is overwhelmed by the schooling system, which is supposed to guarantee integration, especially into the ...
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Tools of Ignorance
... The boy looks at the teals, hanging from a long, U-shaped piece of metal Dex took out and hooked on the wall of the blind. Dex put their heads in at the wider end one at a time and slid them down so their necks ...
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Ignorance is not an option
... rose from the ashes like a phoenix from the 1970 Marshall University football team plane disaster, the community has risen to the occasion and embraced health ...
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The invalidity of the argument from illusion
... traditional argument from illusion should be ...the argument. The argument is in an even worse state than is usually realized since it is invalid, and so one can reject it even granting its ...
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Argument Extraction from News
... represent argument elements (claims and premises) on social Web texts (mainly news and blogs) in the Greek language, for a small set of thematic domains, including articles on poli- tics, economics, culture, ...
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The Invalidity of the Argument from Illusion
... the argument involves highly questionable premises (for an overview see Crane and French ...traditional argument from illusion should be ...the argument. The argument is in an even ...
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Argument Inference from Relevant Event Mentions in Chinese Argument Extraction
... In a word, above two issues indicate that syntactic feature-based approaches are limited in identifying Chinese arguments and it will lead to low recall in argument identification. Therefore, employing those high ...
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Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining
... that ignorance might actually be strength rather than ...benefit from ignorance because the responders accept almost all offers (even the unfavorable ones) if the payoffs of the responder have not ...
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THE BOOK OF GENERAL IGNORANCE
... The principle behind QI is that everything is interesting if looked at closely enough, for long enough, or from the right angle. Along with that goes the idea that if a thing cannot be explained to an intelligent ...
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