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Market, Caribbean Common. Rules of origin of the Caribbean Common Market: An explanation of its scope and operational features. Caribbean Community Secretariat, 1990.

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Secretariat, Caribbean Community, ed. Common external tariff of the Caribbean Common Market: An explanation of its scope and operational features. CARICOM, 1990.

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Nimersheim, Jack. Microsoft's Word 6.0: Features Microsoft's Windows 95 : explanations you can understand and use! Tips that save you time and aggravation! Expert help in plain English! WorldComm, 1995.

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Barkovich, Aleksandr, and Taisa Filimonova. Web design. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2025. https://doi.org/10.12737/2116156.

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The tutorial covers important aspects of web design and allows you to acquire professional competence in the field of creating and developing web resources. The features of this manual are its versatility and adaptability. All the necessary basic information is presented concisely and detailed practice-oriented material with the necessary explanations is systematically presented. It will be useful both for specialists who already have some experience in the field of information technology, and for beginners. It allows you to master a problem area both under the guidance of a teacher and indepe

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Ebrey, David. Identity and Explanation in the Euthyphro. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805762.003.0003.

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According to many interpreters, Socrates in the Euthyphro thinks that an answer to ‘what is the holy?’ should pick out some feature that is prior to being holy. While this is a powerful way to think of answers to the ‘what is it?’ question, one that Aristotle develops, I argue that the Euthyphro provides an important alternative to this Aristotelian account. Instead, an answer to ‘what is the holy?’ should pick out precisely being holy, not some feature prior to it. I begin by showing how this interpretation allows for a straightforward reading of a key argument: Socrates’ refutation of Euthyp

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Colyvan, Mark, John Cusbert, and Kelvin McQueen. Two Flavours of Mathematical Explanation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777946.003.0012.

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A proof of a mathematical theorem tells us that the theorem is true (or should be accepted), but some proofs go further and tell us why the theorem is true (or should be accepted). That is, some, but not all, proofs are explanatory. Call this intra-mathematical explanation and it is to be contrasted with extra-mathematical explanation, where mathematics explains things external to mathematics. This chapter focuses on the intra-mathematical case. The authors consider a couple of examples of explanatory proofs from contemporary mathematics. They determine whether these proofs share some common f

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Alvarez, Maria. Desires, Dispositions and the Explanation of Action. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199370962.003.0005.

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We often explain human actions by reference to the desires of the person whose actions we are explaining: “Jane is studying law because she wants to become a judge.” But how do desires explain actions? A widely accepted view is that desires are dispositional states that are manifested in behavior. Accordingly, desires explain actions as ordinary physical dispositions, such as fragility or conductivity, explain their manifestations, namely causally. This paper argues that desires, unlike ordinary physical dispositions, are “manifestation-dependent dispositions”: dispositions whose attribution d

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Glennan, Stuart. Explanation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779711.003.0008.

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This concluding chapter offers an abstract account of explanation as such, arguing that explanations involve the construction of models that always show what the targets of explanation depend upon (dependence), and sometimes show how multiple targets depend upon similar things (unification). It then suggests, in light of this account, how Salmon’s three conceptions of scientific explanation are not alternative conceptions, but are in fact complementary aspects of successful explanation. Explanations of natural phenomena are then divided into three kinds—bare causal, mechanistic, and non-causal

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Robins, Sarah K., and Carl F. Craver. Biological Clocks: Explaining with Models of Mechanisms. Edited by John Bickle. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195304787.003.0003.

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This article examines the concept of mechanistic explanation by considering the mechanism of circadian rhythm or biological clocks. It provides an account of mechanistic explanation and some common failures of mechanistic explanation and discusses the sense in which mechanistic explanations typically span multiple levels. The article suggests that models that describe mechanisms are more useful for the purposes of manipulation and control than are scientific models that do not describe mechanisms. It comments on the criticism that the mechanistic explanation is far too simple to fully express

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Montgomery, Derek E. Situational features influencing mentalistic explanations of action. 1993.

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Hartley, Trevor C. Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments in Europe. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780191918759.001.0001.

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Abstract This book contains a study of three legal instruments on civil jurisdiction and judgments: the Brussels I Regulation (2012 version), the Lugano Convention (2007 version), and the Hague Choice of Court Convention. A feature all three instruments have in common is that, as far as the Member States of the European Union are concerned CJEU, the final word on their interpretation lies with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). They thus have a certain unity— a unity of function (the international regulation of civil litigation) and a unity of interpretation. This leads to comm

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Potochnik, Angela. Eight Other Questions about Explanation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777946.003.0004.

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Philosophical accounts of scientific explanation tend to focus on developing a conception of the kind of dependence that is explanatory, e.g., nomic, causal-mechanical, difference-making, etc. Disagreements about other features of explanation are often presented as secondary issues linked to specific accounts of explanatory dependence. As a result, many features of explanatory practices about which philosophers disagree have not received sufficient attention. This chapter articulates several of those features—eight, to be exact—and discusses some of the ideas that have been raised about each.

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Morrison, Margaret. The Non-Causal Character of Renormalization Group Explanations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777946.003.0011.

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After reviewing some of the recent literature on non-causal and mathematical explanation, this chapter develops an argument as to why renormalization group (RG) methods should be seen as providing non-causal, yet physical, information about certain kinds of systems/phenomena. The argument centres on the structural character of RG explanations and the relationship between RG and probability theory. These features are crucial for the claim that the non-causal status of RG explanations involves something different from simply ignoring or “averaging over” microphysical details—the kind of explanat

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Miller, Kristie, and James Norton. Everyday Metaphysical Explanation. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857303.001.0001.

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The philosophical notion of metaphysical explanation has received a lot of attention over the last decade. Despite tantalising claims about how metaphysical explanations are part of everyday life, the everyday notion has not been explored. The task taken up in Everyday Metaphysical Explanation is to develop an account of the everyday notion of metaphysical explanation: the notion that we all use in ordinary contexts when we ask for, and receive, explanations of a certain sort. The book presents the striking results of the first empirical investigation of folk judgements regarding what metaphys

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Strevens, Michael. The Whole Story. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199685509.003.0005.

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Causal explanations in the high-level sciences typically black-box the low-level details of the causal mechanisms that they invoke to account for their explananda: economists’ black-box psychological processes, psychologists’ black-box neural processes, and so on. Are these black-boxing explanatory models complete explanations of the phenomena in question, or are they just sketches of or templates for the whole explanatory story? This chapter poses a focused version of the question in the context of convergent evolution, the existence of which appears to show that underlying mechanisms are com

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Lord, Errol. How to Learn about Aesthetics and Morality through Acquaintance and Deference. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823841.003.0004.

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There are parallel debates in metaethics and aesthetics about the rational merits of deferring to others about ethics and aesthetics. In both areas it is common to think that there is something amiss about deference. A popular explanation of this in aesthetics appeals to the importance of aesthetic acquaintance. This kind of explanation has not been explored much in ethics. This chapter defends a unified account of what is amiss about ethical and aesthetic deference. According to this account, deference is a non-ideal way of thinking about ethics and aesthetics because it does not allow us to

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Pastrana Salcedo, Tarsicio. MAN’S GADGETS OR THE MACHINES THAT DO THINGS. Editorial Grupo Lacería, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.37806/egl.2020.001.

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This book has its origin in the research I did for my PhD studies in architecture, at that time it was not easy for me to look for the publication of the work, I was more interested in finishing my studies and continue with my life. Time and chance led me to publish part of that thesis in my first book, however that publication did not cover all the work done so far, so that’s what’s decided by the editors, leaving out the part of the analysis of the machines and taking only the explanations of hydraulic engineering, mestizo processes and treaties and their analysis, the book published in 2010

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Fagan, Melinda Bonnie. Explanatory Particularism in Scientific Practice. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191998874.001.0001.

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Abstract Explanatory Particularism presents an alternative approach to studying explanation across the sciences. On this view, explanations are local, context-dependent achievements of particular scientific communities, reflecting the latter’s epistemic values, images of understanding, and other contextual features. Values associated with understanding vary widely across scientific communities, and within communities over time. The particularist approach to studying explanation has implications for theories of explanation and understanding, of social action and collaboration, and for interdisc

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McGregor, Rafe. A Criminology Of Narrative Fiction. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529208054.001.0001.

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This book answers the question of the usefulness of criminological fiction. Criminological fiction is fiction that can provide an explanation of the causes of crime or social harm and could, in consequence, contribute to the development of crime or social harm reduction policies. The book argues that criminological fiction can provide at least the following three types of criminological knowledge: (1) phenomenological, i.e. representing what certain experiences are like; (2) counterfactual, i.e. representing possible but non-existent situations; and (3) mimetic, i.e. representing everyday real

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Donald, Graeme. Words of a Feather: An Etymological Explanation of Astonishing Word Pairs. Blake Publishing, Limited, John, 2016.

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Words of a Feather: An Etymological Explanation of Astonishing Word Pairs. Blake Publishing, Limited, John, 2016.

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Donald, Graeme. Words of a Feather: An Etymological Explanation of Astonishing Word Pairs. Blake Publishing, Limited, John, 2016.

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Words of a Feather: An Etymological Explanation of Astonishing Word Pairs. Blake Publishing, Limited, John, 2016.

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Valian, Virginia. Null Subjects. Edited by Jeffrey L. Lidz, William Snyder, and Joe Pater. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199601264.013.17.

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Some languages have obligatory overt subjects in all person and tense combinations (e.g., English); some have optional overt subjects in all combinations (e.g., Italian; Chinese); some are mixed (e.g., Hebrew, Shipibo). Parameter setting is less workable an explanation for language variation than is a feature approach. Children in non-null subject languages produce more subjects than do children in null subject languages; children of all language types gradually produce more subjects, especially pronominal subjects, as development proceeds; children are most likely to produce subjects that fit

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Glennan, Stuart. Models, Mechanisms, and How Explanations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779711.003.0003.

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This chapter argues that models are the central means by which scientists represent phenomena and the mechanisms responsible for them. Extending work by Giere and Weisberg, it offers a general account of models, which emphasizes that models are constructed for particular purposes and are related to their targets by similarity relations. Different goals will lead to different models, so that a given target has many models. It then identifies the features that distinguish mechanistic models from other models, and shows how these models are used in explanation. Abstraction and idealization are es

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Guala, Francesco. Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Edited by Paul Humphreys. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199368815.013.6.

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Naturalism is still facing a strong opposition in the philosophy of social science from influential scholars who argue that philosophical analysis must be autonomous from scientific investigation. The opposition exploits philosophers’ traditional diffidence toward social science and fuels the ambition to provide new foundations for social research. A classic anti-naturalist strategy is to identify a feature of social reality that prevents scientific explanation and prediction. An all-time favorite is the dependence of social phenomena on human representation. This article examines two prominen

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Mele, Alfred R. Actions, Explanations, and Causes. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190659974.003.0003.

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This chapter defends a causalist position on the explanation of intentional human actions. It defends the thesis that one necessary condition for an adequate explanation of such an action is that the explanation cite a cause of the action. Various options for a required causal condition are identified, including causation by reasons, by beliefs, desires, or intentions, by neural realizers of mental states of these kinds, or by facts about something the agents believed, desired, or intended. Leading anticausalist proposals are rebutted. A major problem highlighted for these proposals features c

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Grave, Floyd. Narratives of Affliction and Recovery in Haydn. Edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph Straus. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331444.013.28.

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Haydn’s instrumental music is often marked by peculiarities—events that feature harmonic deflections, gasping pauses, metrically dissonant accents, and the like—for which the customary methods of structural and stylistic analysis can promise only limited explanation. The evolving language of Disability Studies in music offers a vantage point for contemplating such idiosyncrasies, most notably those that suggest musical equivalents of impairment and recovery. A disability-related perspective may serve as a guide in the search for appropriate metaphors: words and images that can help breathe lif

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Callender, Craig. Explaining the Temporal Value Asymmetry. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797302.003.0012.

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An important feature of life is the past/future value asymmetry. Not to be confused with proximal/distant discounting, the past/future value asymmetry is the fact that we prefer future rather than past preferences be satisfied. Misfortunes are better in the past, where they are “over and done,” than in the future. Some philosophers take this value asymmetry to warrant positing a radical metaphysical asymmetry between the past and future. By contrast, others contend that the value asymmetry is due to the causal asymmetry. Thanks to the causal asymmetry, there is a mechanism between future desir

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Angioni, Lucas. Causality and Coextensiveness in Aristotle’S Posterior Analytics 1. 13. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825128.003.0005.

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I discuss an important feature of the notion of cause in Post. An. 1. 13, 78b13–28, which has been either neglected or misunderstood. Some have treated it as if Aristotle were introducing a false principle about explanation; others have understood the point in terms of coextensiveness of cause and effect. However, none offers a full exegesis of Aristotle's tangled argument or accounts for all of the text's peculiarities. My aim is to disentangle Aristotle's steps to show that he is arguing in favour of a logical requirement for a middle term's being the appropriate cause of its explanandum. Co

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de Regt, Henk W. Models and Mechanisms. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190652913.003.0006.

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This chapter analyzes the role of mechanical modeling in nineteenth-century physics, showing how precisely mechanical models were used to enhance scientific understanding. It discusses the work and ideas of William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), James Clerk Maxwell, and Ludwig Boltzmann, who advanced explicit views on the function and status of mechanical models, in particular, on their role in providing understanding. A case study of the construction of molecular models to explain the so-called specific heat anomaly highlights the role of conceptual tools in achieving understanding and shows that int

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Lobina, David J. Putting it all together. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785156.003.0008.

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Recursion as a concept can apply to four different theoretical constructs, all of them to some extent independent but with potential points of contact: a) as part of a definition by induction, and thus of possible use to various sciences; b) as a central property of mechanical procedures, as in production systems and merge; c) as a feature of computational processes, when an operation calls itself, yielding chains of deferred operations; and d) as a characteristic of data structures, as in an ‘X within an X’ template. It is of the utmost importance to separate the four meanings and to not conf

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Pincock, Christopher. Accommodating Explanatory Pluralism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777946.003.0003.

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Explanatory pluralism is the view that explanations come in two or more different types. This chapter clarifies two versions of explanatory pluralism and considers two very different attempts to make sense of it. On the one hand, an ontic approach isolates genuine explanations only by appeal to facts that obtain in the world. The most promising way for an ontic approach to accommodate explanatory pluralism is to posit different sorts of objective dependence relations. On the other hand, an epistemic approach requires that features of agents appear in any analysis of what a genuine explanation

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Buchanan, Allen. The Inclusivist Anomaly and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190868413.003.0006.

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This chapter provides a sustained critique of the evoconservative view. It argues that no adequate evolutionary explanation has been given for the inclusivist features of contemporary human morality—most notably, the abolitionist, civil rights, human rights, and animal welfare movements—and it shows that these explanatory limitations indicate that the strong evolutionary psychological constraints thesis is mistaken. Simplistic evoconservative assumptions about the environment of evolutionary adaptation, or the circumstances in which human morality supposedly arose, are called into question, la

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Rinard, Susanna. External World Skepticism and Inference to the Best Explanation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746904.003.0013.

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The chapter presents three problems for IBE responses to skepticism. First, that the external world skeptic should also be a skeptic about the past. IBE responses that appeal to features of our experiences over time—such as their continuity or regularity—will be dialectically ineffective against such a skeptic, since they suspend judgment on propositions about their past experiences. Second, the chapter raises doubts about the claim that postulating external, mind-independent physical objects is the best way to explain our experiences. It is suggested that an idealist alternative may constitut

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Sinkin, Robert A., and Christian A. Chisholm, eds. PCEP Neonatal Care (Book III). 3rd ed. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/9781610020572.

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Developed by a distinguished editorial board, the Perinatal Continuing Education Program (PCEP) is a comprehensive, self-paced education program in four volumes. This popular resource features step-by-step skill instruction, and practice-focused exercises covering maternal and fetal evaluaton and immediate newborn care. The PCEP workbooks feature leading-edge procedures and techniques, and are filled with clear explanations, step-by-step skill instruction, and practice-focused exercises. Book III includes 10 units covering information and skills assessment and initial management of frequently

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Neary, John, and Neil Turner. The patient with haematuria. Edited by Neil Turner. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0046.

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Haematuria is a common presenting feature of diseases of the kidney or the renal tract. It is also common in screening tests, single dipstick tests being positive in perhaps 5% of individuals. Age and whether the blood is visible (macroscopic) or non-visible (microscopic) impact largely on whether the explanation is likely to be broadly urological or nephrological. Origins are most commonly simple or urological. Macroscopic bleeding is rare in renal disease, and urine colour is then usually more rather smoky than red except when there is very acute inflammation. The chief urological causes are

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Lerner, Adam. The Puzzle of Pure Moral Motivation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823841.003.0006.

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People engage in pure moral inquiry whenever they inquire into the moral features of some act, agent, or state of affairs without inquiring into the non-moral features of that act, agent, or state of affairs. The first section of this chapter argues that ordinary people act rationally when they engage in pure moral inquiry, and so any adequate view in metaethics ought to be able to explain this fact. The Puzzle of Pure Moral Motivation is to provide such an explanation. The remaining sections of the chapter argue that each of the standard views in metaethics has trouble providing such an expla

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Weirich, Paul. Rational Responses to Risks. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190089412.001.0001.

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A philosophical account of risk, such as this book provides, states what risk is, which attitudes to it are rational, and which acts affecting risks are rational. Attention to the nature of risk reveals two types of risk, first, a chance of a bad event, and, second, an act’s risk in the sense of the volatility of its possible outcomes. The distinction is normatively significant because different general principles of rationality govern attitudes to these two types of risk. Rationality strictly regulates attitudes to the chance of a bad event and is more permissive about attitudes to an act’s r

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Canon Eos R5 User Guide: A Thorough Explanation of the Features and Operations of the Canon EOS R5 Camera with Illustrative Images. Independently Published, 2022.

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George, Noah. Canon Eos R5 User Guide: A Thorough Explanation of the Features and Operations of the Canon EOS R5 Camera with Illustrative Images. Independently Published, 2022.

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Doumanis, Nicholas. Introduction. Edited by Nicholas Doumanis. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199695669.013.1.

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This chapter argues the case for the unity of early twentieth-century European history, while at the same time identifying the absence of conceptual frameworks and general explanations for that unity. Specifically, the 1914–45 era was an age of political experimentation and social engineering, when empires were replaced by nation states, and when political violence was becoming a normative feature of governance. It proved to be an exceptionally violent age, claiming tens of millions of lives. In such conditions, Europeans were transformed ontologically, as the vast majority of people were nati

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Holmes, Sean P. Protecting the High-Minded Actor and the High-Minded Manager in Equal Part. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037481.003.0005.

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This chapter examines the long-term implications of the unionization of the legitimate theater. It begins with an analysis of the debate that took place within the Actors' Equity Association (AEA) in the early 1920s over where in labor's many-mansioned house its members should reside. Equity leaders distanced themselves not only from the radicalism of the left but also from the “pure-and-simple” craft unionism that was the bedrock of the American Federation of Labor, equating it with wage scales that were set without regard for merit and a closed-shop tradition that restricted access to unioni

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Parker, Robert, and Philippa M. Steele, eds. The Early Greek Alphabets. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198859949.001.0001.

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Regional variation, a persistent feature of Greek alphabetic writing throughout the Archaic period, has been studied since at least the late nineteenth century. The subject was transformed by the publication in 1961 of Lilian H. (Anne) Jeffery's Local Scripts of Archaic Greece (reissued with a valuable supplement by A. Johnston in 1990), based on first-hand study of more than a thousand inscriptions. Much important new evidence has emerged since 1987 (Johnston's cut-off date), and debate has continued energetically about all the central issues raised by the book: the date at which the Phoenici

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Vogt, Manuel. Mobilization and Conflict in Multiethnic States. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190065874.001.0001.

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Why are ethnic movements more likely to turn violent in some multiethnic countries than in others? Focusing on the long-term legacies of European colonialism, this book presents two ideal-typical logics of ethnic group mobilization—one of violent competition and another of nonviolent emancipatory opposition. The book’s theory first explains why ethnic grievances are translated into either violent or nonviolent forms of conflict as a function of distinct ethnic cleavage types, resulting from different colonial experiences. Violent intergroup conflict is least likely where settler colonialism re

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Strevens, Michael. Complexity Theory. Edited by Paul Humphreys. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199368815.013.35.

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Complexity theory attempts to explain, at the most general possible level, the interesting features of complex systems. Two such features are the emergence of simple or stable behavior of the whole from relatively complex or unpredictable behavior of the parts and the emergence of sophisticated behavior of the whole from relatively simplistic behavior of the parts. Often, both kinds of emergence are found nested in the same system. Concerning the emergence of simplicity, this essay examines Herbert Simon’s explanation from near-decomposability and a stochastic explanation that generalizes the

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Henderson, Ailsa, and Richard Wyn Jones. Englishness. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198870784.001.0001.

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For a topic that until recently was presumed not to exist, English nationalism has transformed into an apparently obvious explanation for the Brexit result in England. Subsequent opinion polls have also raised doubts about the extent of continuing English commitment to the union of the United Kingdom itself. Yet, even as Englishness is apparently reshaping Britain’s place in the world and—perhaps—the state itself, it remains poorly understood, in part because of its unfamiliarity. It has long been assumed that nationalism is a feature of political life in the state’s periphery—Scotland, Wales,

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Newman, Abraham L., and Elliot Posner. International Financial Regulation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198818380.003.0003.

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Chapter 3 describes the international financial regulatory architecture, providing necessary background for the substantive studies that follow. It gives special attention to the architecture’s two defining aspects: the soft law character of the rules it produces and the fragmentation of rule-making by subsectors. A matrix of forums develops advisory prescriptions for specific financial policy areas. The chapter traces the architecture’s origins and evolution, including how policy-makers and standard-setting organizations dealt with the breakdown of traditional boundaries between markets and s

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New Light on Ancient Chronological Records in the Hebrew Scriptures: Showing, among Other Features, an Accurate Explanation of Daniel's Great Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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Menzies, Peter. Platitudes and Counterexamples. Edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.003.0018.

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This article explains the conception of causation as a natural relation in more detail. It outlines some of the features of our use of the causal concept that do not fit with the idea of causation as a natural relation between events. It then outlines the correct explanation of these features, replacing the metaphysical conception of causation with a conception of causation in terms of a contrastive difference-making relation, where the contrasts are determined contextually on the basis of what are often normative considerations.

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