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... Key Words: Assumption, postulate; conscious- ness; memory; lateral-thinking; install; psycho- logical entity; proposition. Abstract: The concept of an 'assumption' is dis- cus[r] ... See full document

... Brandenburger, Friedenberg, and Keisler (2008) (BFK) solved this puzzle by adopt- ing a model of Bayesian rationality that permits the expression of a more general set of beliefs than the set allowed by SEU theory. They ... See full document

... The functional viewpoint focuses on defining the boundary of a model to specify what kind of physical processes is considered/ignored. The “process consideration con- straint” makes such selection about physical ... See full document

... The results of the experiments given in Table II are what would be expected on the assumption that, in dilute water, Gunda is maintaining an osmotic difference between the body fluids an[r] ... See full document

... the assumption does not ...revisionary. What is needed to resist the second stage of the presumptive is a full- blooded antirealist vindication of the relevant ... See full document

... fundamental assumption favours introduction rules as giving the meanings of logical constants, applied to the case of disjunction this in- troduces a genuinely anti-realist thought: that a disjunction can only be ... See full document

... Classical Griffith fracture theory provides a simple explana- tion of the stress requirements for a crack to enlarge: a crack will propagate when the forces holding two sides of a po- tential crack together are exceeded ... See full document

... the assumption of restrictive stationarity tax the system’s buffering ...hydrology. What are the expected economic regrets in water management resulting from the use of the assumption of restrictive ... See full document

... the assumption that the centrality of scientists in the coauthorship network is indicative for the visibility of their work, we then study to what extent the “success” of research articles in terms of ... See full document

... Standard correspondence results relate frame properties to the validity of certain forms of object-language statements, where validity on a frame means truth in all models defined on that frame. If we are dealing with a ... See full document

... Common to these hypotheses is the idea that the intensification of agriculture has been accompanied by a homogenisation of cropping systems and landscapes, accounting for both declines i[r] ... See full document

... Using the word ’strategy’ for economic policies of past Centuries is perhaps an overly ambitious term, but for hundreds of years nations have possessed beliefs and ideologies on what promoted national welfare. ... See full document

... However, in a subsequent RCT that compared ACE inhibitor to diuretic therapy in elderly Australian patients with hypertension, similar BP reduction was achieved at 5 years (26/1[r] ... See full document

... This work by Nicole Dyszlewski, Raquel Ortiz, and Liz Gotauco is licensed and published by CALI eLangdell Press under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 4.0 Interna[r] ... See full document

... A lot of interesting "discoveries" were made a long time ago. These include such gems as "the Earth is flat", "fire is a result of the phlogiston escaping from the burning material", and "the ... See full document

... including what is important for the world as a whole and examples of such research include Saudi Arabia bronchiolitis in children, child abuse, pediatric brucellosis, Type 1 Diabetes and ... See full document

... The lazy user theory of solution selection assumes that the user will select the solution that demands the least effort. This requires that we describe what effort is and how we can order the amount of effort that ... See full document

... Concretion Assumption Based Understanding C o n c r e t i o n A s s u m p t i o n B a s e d U n d e r s t a n d i n g Paul S Jacobs Artificial Intelligence Program GE Research and Development Center S[.] ... See full document

... In the GFC the central meaning of the clause that 'the argument aside from the proposed necessary assumption is fully cogent' is that given the truth of what I will call t[r] ... See full document

... The assumption the arguments need is that the agent is willing to pay for any sequence of arrangements the sum of what he would pay for the arrangements singly, that the value of th[r] ... See full document