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Zoric, Aleksandra. "On the difference between Duhem and Quine’s theses." Filozofija i drustvo 25, no. 1 (2014): 193–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid1401193z.
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Although there are numerous similarities between Duhem and Quine, there are strong arguments which suggest that what can be isolated as Quine?s thesis would be unacceptable to Duhem. On the other hand, they both share Duhem?s holistic thesis: empirical statements are interconnected in such a way that they cannot be confirmed or refuted taken in isolation. Since Quine?s holism is more radical, as we shall show, his thesis claims that we can always keep a statement by making necessary adjustments somewhere else in the system. We will try to show that only the first thesis can be rightfully ascribed to Duhem, that these two thesis are not identical, and that they are both different from what is usually called the theses of underdetermination. As we shall see, neither of them speaks about the possibility of empirically equivalent theories. They are, first and foremost, holistic theses which, under certain additional assumptions, have the thesis of underdetermination as their consequence.
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Zhang, Wenqing. "The Effect of Thesis Statement on Persuasiveness and Logicality." Lifelong Education 9, no. 7 (2020): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.18282/le.v9i7.1476.
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“Thesis statement is the main idea of your essay, the central point your essay supports.”[1] It can be regarded as the root of your article, so its significance is inevitable. Writing an effective thesis statement and developing it clearly and logically are necessities for an excellent essay. Where to introduce the thesis statement and how to develop it also affect the logicality and persuasiveness of the essay, so this paper will focus on the thesis statements of five essays and analyze where they are introduced and how they develop in the articles respectively in order to find their influence on the logicality and persuasiveness of the essay.
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Stojanovic-Prelevic, Ivana. "Are all performatives statements?" Theoria, Beograd 62, no. 4 (2019): 17–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo1904017s.
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In this paper, I defend Austin?s thesis that performatives are not statements by definition. Austin claimed that if promises are statements, we would not talk about promises anymore, but rather about statements. He also relativized the distinction between performatives and constatives. I assess whether such a relativization corroborates the claim that performatives are statements. I also criticize Kent Bach?s thesis that explicit performatives are statements. Nevertheless, I endorse a view that some performatives are statements (so-called performative statements). Another thesis I am going to reject is that performatives should primarily be considered as statements, and secondarily as promises, pieces of advice, and so on.
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Gruner, Charles R. "Prior Attitude and Perception of Satirical Theses." Perceptual and Motor Skills 67, no. 2 (1988): 677–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1988.67.2.677.
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From 90 students 54 student researchers obtained responses on attitudes about two statements involving labor unions and government power. Their prior attitudes were not independent of recognition of the thesis of the work rule satirical statement, but those who agreed in advance with the power structure thesis tended to show related attitudes. Different factors may interact in various ways.
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Gruner, Charles R. "Note on Editorial Satire and Persuasion." Psychological Reports 60, no. 3 (1987): 884–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1987.60.3.884.
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117 college students were either told or not told in advance the thesis of a satire ridiculing the idea that capital punishment is a deterrent to murder. Subjects were then asked whether they agreed with the statement that capital punishment is a deterrent to murder. Those not told the thesis in advance were also asked to identify which of five statements was the thesis. There may be a relationship between knowing a satire's thesis in advance and the persuasiveness of that satire. There also seems to be an association between perceiving a thesis while reading it and the satire's persuasiveness. The results tend to support those of prior studies.
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ALMEIDA, MICHAEL J. "Supervenience and property-identical divine-command theory." Religious Studies 40, no. 3 (2004): 323–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412504007085.
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Property-identical divine-command theory (PDCT) is the view that being obligatory is identical to being commanded by God in just the way that being water is identical to being H2O. If these identity statements are true, then they express necessary a posteriori truths. PDCT has been defended in Robert M. Adams (1987) and William Alston (1990). More recently Mark C. Murphy (2002) has argued that property-identical divine-command theory is inconsistent with two well-known and well-received theses: the free-command thesis and the supervenience thesis. I show that Murphy's argument is vitiated by mistaken assumptions about the substitutivity of metaphysical identicals in contexts of supervenience. The free-command thesis and the supervenience thesis therefore pose no serious threat to PDCT.
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Woodward, James. "Supervenience and Singular Causal Statements." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 27 (March 1990): 211–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100005129.
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In his recent book, Causation: A Realistic Approach, Michael Tooley discusses the following thesis, which he calls the ‘thesis of the Humean Supervenience of Causal Relations’:(T) The truth values of all singular causal statements are logically determined by the truth values of statements of causal laws, together with the truth values of non-causal statements about particulars (p. 182).(T) represents one version of the ‘Humean’ idea that there is no more factual content to the claim that two particular events are causally connected than that they occur, instantiate some law or regularity, and perhaps bear some appropriate non-causal (e.g. spatio-temporal) to each other. This is an idea that is tacitly or explicitly assumed in most familiar accounts of singular causal statements. For example (T) is assumed by many probabilistic theories of singular causal statements, by theories which attempt to analyse singular causal statements in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions, and, as I shall argue below, by David Lewis' counterfactual theory.
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Jedynak, Anna. "Teorie naukowe a systemy wartości." Etyka 25 (December 1, 1990): 241–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.14394/etyka.345.
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The starting point of the investigations undertaken in the article is the thesis of empirical indeterminacy of scientific theories. According to this thesis the same set of empirical data can be differently explained by different theories, none of which will be found compelling. The reason for that is that no specific theory is a logical consequence of observational statements. This thesis can be so generalized as to include systems of value as well. Theoretical statements serve as justification of observational statements, although the former are not entailed by the latter. Similarly with judgements of value: they justify moral norms but are not entailed by them. Consequently the same obligations can be justified on the grounds of different systems of value. Systems of value are not therefore determined by moral obligations and have the same function in ethics as theory does in science. Systems of value remain, however, radically different from scientific theories because the relations that bind observational statements with scientific observations are quite different from those that bind moral norms with human behaviour in ethics.
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Gresham, Jacqueline. "Theses on Theory." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 26, no. 1 (2014): 93–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341290.
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Abstract These thesis statements address the ghettoization of theory in the academic study of religion, noting not only the creation of specialized venues for the practice of theory (e.g., the conference section that the theses were originally written to directly address) as a symptomatic response, but also the further isolating effects engendered by the emergence of such discursive spaces. In response to these problems of marginalization, the theses go on to propose practical methods for tactical dissolution in hopes to contribute to the further integration of theory into the wider discipline.
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Bowe, Brian J., Roberta Kjesrud, and Pippa Hemsley. "Improving Inquiry Questions to Foster Critical Thinking and Reflective Practice in a Journalism Capstone." Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 75, no. 3 (2020): 308–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077695820906359.
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Education researchers have long been interested in helping students develop effective inquiry questions to guide research projects. In this study, students in a journalism senior capstone used writing-studies informed practices such as middle-stakes, iterative writing prompts to enhance metacognition and critical thinking. Using prompts to guide students to periodically revise their inquiry questions and working thesis statements, students showed improvement in their written products as measured through holistic writing assessment measures. Despite measurable improvement, students’ thesis statements were still lackluster, suggesting that programs should develop connected curricula that sequentially scaffold research methods, critical thinking, and writing skills across the major.
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Guarneri, Cristina. "Sending Messages to Influence People." Journal of English Language and Literature (JELL) 7, no. 2 (2022): 219–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.37110/jell.v7i2.148.
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Writing is one of the most influential ways to reach a target audience. It is through words that we can send a message of strength. Such writing often will lead to action, both positive and negative. The greatest power of writing is its ability to affect others with words. Written words are stronger and possess great emphasis compared to spoken words. Recognizing the power of the written word also means the importance of including structural parts to writing, such as sentence structure and more importantly, the thesis statement, which allows for the writer to persuade people prone to being skeptical to what they hear and read. Understanding how to include thesis statements, identifying points of view, and credibility writers can share their stories that allow for the power of the written word to prevail.
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Stepanovic-Todorovic, Sanja. "The meaning and the scope of the separability thesis between morals and law." Theoria, Beograd 47, no. 3-4 (2004): 65–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo0404065s.
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This paper analyzes possible meanings and implications of the separability thesis (between morals and law) mainly within the context of the Hart Dworkin debate. The separability thesis was first brought into connection with the 'soft-positivism', that was expounded on the presumption of compatibility between basic positivistic statements and moral principles i.e. values. The analysis shows that Dworkin was not in fact disputing with the separability thesis, but with the more radical version of the hard fact positivism. It is found that Hart supported one additional version of the separabiity thesis called Explicit Moral Content Thesis. According to that thesis law has no moral content or condition but the one explicitly displayed in it. That thesis is plausible if the ambiguity of epistemic and semantic sense of the rule of recognition is acceptable.
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Koçyiğit, Mehmet, and Cahit Erdem. "A content analysis of graduate research on English preparatory programs at universities." Journal of Human Sciences 15, no. 3 (2018): 1466. http://dx.doi.org/10.14687/jhs.v15i3.5414.
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This study examines master’s and doctoral theses on English preparatory classes at tertiary level in Turkey in terms of completion year, thesis type, subject areas, data types, research design, sample groups, problem statements and recommendations. This study is a systematic review of literature and the data was collected through document analysis technique. Content analysis was carried out on the theses selected through criterion sampling method. A total of 82 theses, which were completed by July 2017, were included in the analysis based on inclusion criteria. The analysis reveals significant results as to theses on English preparatory classes at universities. The most frequent subject areas in the theses were identified as learning styles/strategies, motivation/attitude/belief, program evaluation, increasing vocabulary knowledge, reading skills and foreign language anxiety respectively. The majority of the theses rest on quantitative data and employ descriptive research designs. Samples in the theses mostly consist of students while few of them address instructors. The most frequent themes in problem statements include inadequacy, importance and failure while the most frequent recommendations are about motivation and anxiety, and in-service training. This study has the potential to guide future research by putting forth research trends in graduate research on English preparatory classes at tertiary level.
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Gunawan, Hafiz. "Analisis Struktur Retorika Bagian Latar Belakang Skripsi Mahasiswa Program Studi Sistem Informatika Fakultas Teknik Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu." Diksa : Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 5, no. 1 (2019): 27–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.33369/diksa.v5i1.9173.
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The purpose of this study was to provide an understanding of the stages and steps of the background section of the thesis of the Information Systems Study Program Faculty of Engineering, University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu. This research uses a descriptive method. Data is all written statements of students when writing a thesis. The data source in this study is the thesis of 20 students of the Information Systems Study Program at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu. Data collection techniques using documentation techniques. The steps in the analysis of the research data are 1) coding, 2) reading all parts of the background, 3) identifying the background, 4) classifying stages and steps, 6) choosing a dominant pattern. Test the validity of the data using the expert validity test. The results of the research and discussion of the Rhetoric Structure of the Background Section of the Thesis of the Student Information Systems Study Program Faculty of Engineering, University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu are; Stages in the background section of the thesis of the Information Systems Study Program of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu that all theses used the stages in the PJP model, and the steps in the stages of the thesis background of the students of the Information System Study Program of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu did not all use the steps steps in the PJP model stage. The findings can be used as input material in deepening insight and adding to the knowledge literature about the rhetorical structure of the background section of the thesis.
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Patak, Andi Anto, Muhammad Tahir, and Andi Sahtiani Jahrir. "Exploring Mendeley-based thesis supervision model to avoid plagiarism." International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) 11, no. 4 (2022): 2182. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v11i4.23295.
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This study explored Mendeley-based thesis supervision models to avoid plagiarism. The focus of this study was four issues: i) Selecting the topic and deciding the thesis title; ii) Browsing and managing references; iii) Validating references; and iv) Matching ideas between the students’ arguments and citing other authors’ statements. This study employed a qualitative method with a case study design to explore an in-depth understanding of the Mendeley-based thesis supervision model to avoid plagiarism. Researchers posted a call for an interview in social media group for an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) lecturer in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. There were 15 EFL lecturers applied, but only four met the criteria. The criteria for choosing the participant are based on the Mendeley presentation experience, full-time teaching career, and willingness to participate in virtual interview sessions. There were two participants from a public university, one was from a private university, and the other was from a state Islamic university. A semi-structured interview technique was applied in this study. This study employed thematic analysis to explore participants' responses. This study reported that supervisors experienced different cases from the four items identified in this study. They are: i) Selecting the topic and deciding the thesis title, ii) Browsing and managing references; iii) Validating references; and vi) Matching ideas between the students' arguments and citing other authors’ statements.
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Pessoa Jr., Osvaldo. "The colored-brain thesis." Filosofia Unisinos 22, no. 1 (2021): 84–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4013/fsu.2021.221.10.
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The “colored-brain thesis”, or strong qualitative physicalism, is discussed from historical and philosophical perspectives. This thesis was proposed by Thomas Case (1888), in a non-materialistic context, and is close to views explored by H. H. Price (1932) and E. Boring (1933). Using Mary’s room thought experiment, one can argue that physicalism implies qualitative physicalism. Qualitative physicalism involves three basic statements: (i) perceptual internalism, and realism of qualia; (ii) ontic physicalism, charaterized as a description in space, time, and scale; and (iii) mind-brain identity thesis. In addition, (iv) structuralism in physics, and distinguishing the present version from that suggested by H. Feigl and S. Pepper, (v) realism of the physical description. The “neurosurgeon argument” is presented, as to why the greenness of a visually perceived avocado, which (according to this view) is present in the brain as a physical-chemical attribute, would not be seen as green by a neurosurgeon who opens the observer’s skull. This conception is compared with two close views, Russellian (and Schlickian) monisms and panprotopsychism (including panqualityism). According to the strong qualitative physicalism presented here, the phenomenal experience of a quale q is identical to a physico-chemical quality q, which arises from a combination of (1) the materiality wassociated with the brain, and (2) the causal organization or structure of the relevant elements of the brain S, including in this organization the structure of the self: (Sw)q. The “explanatory gap” between mental and physical states is shifted to a gap between the physico-chemical qualities q and the organized materiality of a specific brain region (Sw)q, and is seen as being bridged only by a set of non-explanatory postulates. Keywords: Colored-brain thesis, qualitative physicalism, mind-brain identity thesis, qualia, panprotopsychism, sensorium.
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FREEMAN, JOHN M. "Benign Epilepsy of Childhood and Gowers's Statements." Pediatrics 81, no. 5 (1988): 747. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.81.5.747.
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In Reply.— Mea Culpa! One should always go back to the original citation as indicated by Drs Bouma and Peters. Fortunately, Gower's statement would have supported both our thesis and my favorite dictum "All that's new is rarely true, and all that's true is rarely new." The authors' speculation about treating for a short period of time (3 to 6 months) is equally as valid as ours not to treat. What is needed are studies and a rethinking of the prevalent concept that all epilepsy should be treated for 2-4 years or more.
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CORTI, Enrique Camilo. "Dialectic, Theology, Ontology: Roscelin and Anselm." Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 24 (November 24, 2017): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.21071/refime.v24i.10452.
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This paper presents a re-reading of Anselm’s Epistola de incarnatione verbi, examining it as a textual and doctrinal interpretation carried out by Anselm about the statements by Roscelin of Compiègne. It is marked by three moments: hearing, understanding and responding. Hearing is applied, on the one hand, to the literal text of the statement in the conditional version exposed in the Epistola de incarnatione verbi and in Letter 128; and, on the other hand, in the version in Letters 129 and 136. Understanding requires the experience of those who believe in the Incarnate Word. The response refutes the Roscelin's thesis.
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Duke, George. "The Syntactic Priority Thesis and Ontological Disputes." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 42, no. 2 (2012): 149–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cjp.2012.0004.
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The syntactic priority thesis (henceforth SP) asserts that the truth of appropriate sentential contexts containing what are, by syntactic criteria, singular terms, is sufficient to justify the attribution of objectual reference to such terms (Wright, 1983, 24). One consequence that the neo-Fregean draws from SP is that it is through an analysis of the syntactic structure of true statements that ‘ontological questions are to be understood and settled’ (Wright, 1983, 25). Despite the significant literature on SP, little consideration has been given to this bold metaontological claim.1 My concern here is accordingly not with specific applications of SP to debates in the philosophy of mathematics, but rather with the neo-Fregean's claim that SP can constitute a decisionprocedure in relation to substantive ontological disputes. I argue that the explanatory power of SP is limited to an account of what ‘there are’ sentences are true and does not extend as far as substantive ontology.
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Tullberg, Jan, and Birgitta S. Tullberg. "A Critique of the Naturalistic Fallacy Thesis." Politics and the Life Sciences 20, no. 2 (2001): 165–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0730938400005451.
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If the prescriptive “ought” is separated from the factual “is,” an intellectual analysis of the real world is by definition without normative value. The naturalistic fallacy thesis—maintaining that normative and descriptive spheres must remain separated—is often presented in a weak sense that seems reasonable. However, only in a strong sense—by strictly separating facts and values—are fallacy accusations supported. We claim that this naturalistic fallacy thesis is unsound and that normative statements instead should be based on rational understanding as found in the Darwinian and social sciences. The Cartesian compromise should be abandoned, since only naturalism can provide a cogent framework for better understanding and support ethics with a solid foundation. Many people nurture values based on tradition, whim, subgroup identification etc., and they demand respect for those values. However, we can demand respect for values only when they have a rational foundation. The common belief in the thesis of naturalistic fallacy is an anti-intellectual device that shields values from rational inquiry.
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Hess, Elijah, and Alan Rhoda. "IS an Open Infinite Future Impossible? A Reply to Pruss." Faith and Philosophy 37, no. 3 (2020): 363–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.37977/faithphil.2020.37.3.6.
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Alexander Pruss has recently argued on probabilistic grounds that Christian philosophers should reject Open Futurism—roughly, the thesis that there are no true future contingents—on account of this view’s alleged inability to handle certain statements about infinite futures in a mathematically or religiously adequate manner. We argue that, once the distinction between being true and becoming true is applied to such statements, it is evident that they pose no problem for Open Futurists.
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Sharma, Uma Nath. "The Role of Supervisor and Student for Completing a Thesis." Tribhuvan University Journal 31, no. 1-2 (2017): 223–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/tuj.v31i1-2.25358.
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Master’s degree students are required to write a thesis as a course alternative to a written examination of a paper. The purpose of this article is to understand and discuss the students’ perception on their own roles as a thesis candidate and the role of a supervisor in accomplishing a work of master’s thesis. For this, the candidates of master’s thesis were asked to respond a multiple choice item like questionnaire consisting of 12 sets of statements on the student-supervisor roles or responsibilities in three major aspects of thesis writing, namely topic/area of study, contact/involvement and the thesis/dissertation. The responses were analyzed descriptively using the software package – SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). Analysis showed that the average students wanted to build a bridge (plan and manage the thesis writing) together with the supervisor so that they could cross it (accomplish the work of thesis writing). The students expected joint role of a supervisor. The supervisor and the student are recommended to share their expectations from each other, and build a mutual understanding of supervisor-student roles in advance and do accordingly for the successful completion of the thesis in reasonable time.
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Antasari, Indah Wijaya. "Analisis Faktor-faktor yang Mempengaruhi Mahasiswa Memanfaatkan Layanan Penelusuran." Tik Ilmeu : Jurnal Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi 5, no. 2 (2021): 173. http://dx.doi.org/10.29240/tik.v5i2.2777.
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The information retrieval services is a service that interests university library users. There is a significant increase of students completing their thesis using searching services during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to find factors in the utilization of research searching services. It is Using a quantitative approach with exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The study population was 376 students who submitted searching services during the pandemic (March-December 2020),using Slovin formula get a sample 82 respondents. The primary data source from the questionnaire. The results showed that only one (1) factor for the variable use of research searching services, with seven (7) statements: P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, and P7, but, the P8 idea is not continued for analysis because the results of the commonalities test showed that the extraction value is less than 0.5. The conclusion is the factor variables that influence IAIN Purwokerto students to use the searching service have no dimension (there is only one factor) that is factors for completing thesis, indicators of these factors are seven statements: requires an example of a thesis; enriches material for a thesis; knows how to describe the background; looks for the right theory; gets an appropriate research method; knows how I should explain the discussion; and knows how to conclude the results of a research.
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Gruner, Charles R. "A Quasiexperimental Study of the Effect of Humor Preference and other Variables on Understanding/Appreciation of Editorial Satire." Psychological Reports 65, no. 3 (1989): 967–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1989.65.3.967.
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Students indicated their humor preference (nonsense vs philosophical) and personal data on 7 other independent variables, then read three satirical editorials and, after each, checked which of five statements was the thesis intended by the author. They also rated each satire on interestingness and funniness. The number of satires' theses correctly identified was the dependent variable (understanding) and the interestingness and funniness scales were the measures of appreciation. The only significant value of chi-squared for understanding was by Greek/nonGreek status. A correlation matrix of the funniness and interestingness scores supported earlier evidence of a general “appreciation of satire” factor by college students.
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Danz, Christian. "God and Evil—Systematic-Theological Reflections on the Doctrine of God." Religions 13, no. 11 (2022): 1075. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13111075.
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Against the background of the current debates about God and evil, the article elaborates in three stages of argumentation the thesis that statements about God must not be understood as factual or representational statements, but as descriptive elements of the reflexive structure of the Christian religious communication. On this basis, a new perspective on God’s relationship to evil in the world emerges, which, in contrast to the so-called theodicy debates, includes the self-view of the religious practitioners.
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Fitriani, Areta, Angga Angga, and Peni Apriyanti. "The Perceptions of the Arabic Education Student on Language Literacy at the Sheikh Abdurrahman Siddik Bangka Belitung." AL-MU'ARRIB: JOURNAL OF ARABIC EDUCATION 2, no. 2 (2022): 71–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.32923/al-muarrib.v2i2.2580.
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This research is a quantitative research. The purpose of this study was to determine the perception of each individual from the PBA student towards the Arabic Thesis. Perception is the view that each individual has. The research instrument used in this study was a likert scale with total of 33 valid statements. With a random sampling technique as many as 34 students. The analysis used is descriptive statistical analysis. The result of this study are dominant average 38, 24 PBA students agree with the Arabic Thesis.
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Kuße, Holger. "Argumentation and Aggression: About Maps and Poems in the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict." East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 5, no. 2 (2018): 37–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.21226/ewjus418.
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Argumentation as a function of human communication, and aggression as a feature of communicative behaviour, seem to be contrary to each other. Argumentation should be understood as the regulation of dissent based on rational arguments, whereas aggression can be seen as the manifestation and intensification of dissent. But the boundaries between rationality and irrationality, as well as between the regulation and the manifestation of dissent are often vague. Therefore, not only hate speech but also seemingly rational argumentation can be motivated by aggression and can lead to aggression. In the present study, this intertwinedness of argumentation and aggression is shown in the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict, where we can find the use of aggressive theses, reasons, and aggressive arguments in different semiotic and textual expressions: not only in political statements, but also in poetry and in multimodal forms like political maps. Combining argumentation theory with a case study of aggressive argumentation in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the paper presents several forms of intertwinedness of argumentation and aggression. The research is mainly based on maps as a type of popular geopolitics, in which the aggressive thesis of the non-existence of Ukraine is provided. The study also considers the poeto-political war around Anastasiia Dmytruk’s poem “Nikogda my ne budem brat'iami” (“Never ever we will be brothers”). Responses to Dmytruk’s thesis provoke not only disagreement but also negative and positive-negative agreement, which means that the opponent agrees with the thesis but rejects the reasons of the argument, or s/he agrees with the thesis and the reasons but evaluates them in a contradictory way. Whereas the analysis of maps shows mainly the performing of aggressive theses, the analysis of the poeto-political war highlights how reasons are provided in an aggressive communication frame.
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PORTER, CHRISTOPHER P. "ON ANALOGUES OF THE CHURCH–TURING THESIS IN ALGORITHMIC RANDOMNESS." Review of Symbolic Logic 9, no. 3 (2016): 456–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755020316000113.
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AbstractIn this article, I consider the status of several statements analogous to the Church–Turing thesis that assert that some definition of algorithmic randomness captures the intuitive conception of randomness. I argue that we should not only reject the theses that have appeared in the algorithmic randomness literature, but more generally that we ought not evaluate the adequacy of a definition of randomness on the basis of whether it captures the so-called intuitive conception of randomness to begin with. Instead, I argue that a more promising alternative is to evaluate the adequacy of a definition of randomness on the basis of whether it captures what I refer to as a “notion of almost everywhere typicality.” In support of my main claims, I will appeal to recent work in showing the connection between of algorithmic randomness and certain “almost everywhere” theorems from classical mathematics.
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Mvunabandi, Jean Damascene, and Bomi Cyril Nomlala. "Factors Affecting Non-Government Organisations’ Financial Statement Fraud in South Africa: New Fraud Combined Theory Approach." Journal of Economics, Business, & Accountancy Ventura 25, no. 2 (2022): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.14414/jebav.v25i2.3092.
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This article aims to obtain empirical evidence about the relationship between New Fraud Combined Theory with non-government organizations’ financial statement fraud in South Africa. The population of this thesis research comprised 87 staff from 30 chosen Non-Government organizations (NGOs). The sample size of 87 was calculated using Raosft Software. A convenience sampling technique was used to select the study’s respondents. This article adopted quantitative and descriptive survey research. A Likert questionnaire was designed and used as the research instrument for generating data from respondents. Robustness analysis was entirely performed using descriptive statistics. The result of this research indicated that all variables have a significant association with fraudulent financial statements among NGOs in the eThekwini region, South Africa. This article contributes to the body of knowledge: the significant association between auditing and financial statement fraud mitigation accentuates the new fraud combined theory which belies that effective corporate governance will significantly curb financial statement fraud among NGOs in the eThekwini region and beyond.
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Mauer, Michael. "Rupert Schreibers Deskriptionsthese." Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Annual Review of Law and Ethics 28, no. 1 (2020): 207–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3790/jre.28.1.207.
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This paper deals with the ‚description-thesis‘ (R. Schreiber 1962) according to which normative or prescriptive legal statements are reducible to, or translatable into, descriptive propositions. The arguments Schreiber produced in support of his thesis are briefly presented, followed by a discussion of the thesis against the background of Hume’s law and G. E. Moore’s open-question argument. In order to broaden the perspective, some other philosophical views are examined; emphasis is placed on how the is-ought relation was conceived, in conflicting ways, by Hans Kelsen and Friedrich Müller respectively, as compared to the current state of discussion, and what are, according to Ernst Tugendhat and Christoph Möllers, the constituents of (social) norms. As a result, the paper suggests that the description-thesis can not be maintained in its entirety. A special version is presented which seems to respond to the criticism discussed while implying at least part of what Schreiber’s original version claimed.
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Doye, Damona. "Integrated Farm Financial Statements (IFFS): A Farm Business Planning Tool." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 37, no. 2 (2005): 433–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1074070800006908.
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Integrated Farm Financial Statements (IFFS) software was developed as an M.S. thesis project in the mid-1980s and was immediately put to use as a tool for business planning in one-on-one work with Oklahoma producers through the Intensive Financial Management and Planning Support project. An updated IFFS continues to be used with producers to project financial statements for 1–3 years. Strengths and weaknesses in the software and extension program are noted, along with components that might serve as a model for other programs. Links with research are discussed, as are prospects for future farm financial management programs.
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Usinova, Ajsel. "APPLICATION OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS IN FUNCTION OF COMPANIES’ LIQUIDITY EVALUATION." Knowledge International Journal 28, no. 5 (2018): 1725–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.35120/kij28051725a.
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The financial statements represent a "snapshot" of the company's operations in a specific period and one of the main sources of data for evaluation of the financial condition and result of companies and analyze their overall performance. The analysis of financial statements is the use of accounting information in decision-making and investment business. The process of analyzing financial reports is designed to help business people, investors and lenders to learn how to read, interpret and analyze prepared financial statements. Essential tool in the analysis of financial statements is financial (ratio) analysis. The objective of this master’s thesis is to explain the application of financial indicators in the analysis of business processes in general and to give a special contribution to the understanding of the application of financial liquidity indicators. From this point of calculation is illustrated and also made a detailed analysis of the performance of the liquidity situation with specific representative sample of companies in the Macedonian economy.
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Pataut, Fabrice. "Truth and Modalities (I)." Balkan Journal of Philosophy 14, no. 2 (2022): 103–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/bjp202214213.
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I contrast two construals of the thesis that truth is independent of verifiability in principle: a modal one and a non modal one. I argue in favor of the modal construal and then, on that basis, that independence holds across the board, i.e., even for statements that are verifiable by us relative to familiar, customary, non-skeptical standards.
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Schirn, Matthias, and Karl-Georg Niebergall. "What Finitism Could Not Be." Crítica (México D. F. En línea) 35, no. 103 (2003): 43–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2003.1004.
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In his paper "Finitism" (1981), W.W. Tait maintains that the chief difficulty for everyone who wishes to understand Hilbert's conception of finitist mathematics is this: to specify the sense of the provability of general statements about the natural numbers without presupposing infinite totalities. Tait further argues that all finitist reasoning is essentially primitive recursive. In this paper, we attempt to show that his thesis "The finitist functions are precisely the primitive recursive functions" is disputable and that another, likewise defended by him, is untenable. The second thesis is that the finitist theorems are precisely the universal closures of the equations that can be proved in PRA.
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SARICA, Rabia. "Analysis of Postgraduate Theses Related to STEM Education in Turkey: A Meta-Synthesis Study." Acta Didactica Napocensia 13, no. 2 (2020): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/adn.13.2.1.
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Abstract: Importance and prevalence of STEM, which is a holistic educational approach that includes science, technology, engineering and mathematics, has been increasing in recent years. It is stated that STEM is very important for countries to compete and stand out in the new world order and economy. In this study, postgraduate theses on STEM education in Turkey were investigated by meta-synthesis method. In this context, 58 theses, 9 of which were doctoral and 49 of them were master’s thesis were examined. Topics covered in the theses, research methods used, preferred sample groups, data collection tools and results presented in theses, similar and different aspects were examined in detail. It is understood that various skills, opinions, academic achievement, learning approaches, career, attitudes, and interest/perception are studied in the theses. In the studies, it was determined that mostly mixed, quantitative and qualitative methods were preferred respectively, middle school students and teacher candidates were frequently studied groups, and questionnaire/scale and interview (form) tools were frequently used as data collection tools. The results, similarities and differences of the theses were expressed with key statements and some suggestions were presented.
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D, Karthikeyan. "'Parable' Tellers in The Tolkapiyam Theory of Statements." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-13 (2022): 187–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt224s1326.
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Tolkappiyam, which is an ancient grammar book of Tamil, is not only a grammar book, but it also has the nature of presenting the theory of poetics and can present the theory of poetry in detail. The Tolkappiyam, which has mainly described the Thinai literary tradition, the ancient literary tradition of Tamil, as a theory, has effectively documented the literary heritage of Tamil, i.e., the Thinai literary tradition, by describing it as a poetic theory of how the Agatthinai-Puratthinai literature, which are the components of the Thinai tradition, should be fabricated. In this way, the word "Parable" receives a lot of attention in the context of narrative theory in Agathinai poetics. That is to say, the fact that Tolkappiyam defines the principle of how the parable should be presented or expounded when the claimants make a statement gives rise to various social understandings. On this basis, this thesis explores the gender-social backgrounds that are focused on telling the parable.
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SHIN, Jungwon. "A Primitive Cultural Study about Zhōuyì(周易) Divination(占筮)". Tae Dong Institute of classic research 49 (31 грудня 2022): 9–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.31408/tdicr.2022.49.9.
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This thesis studies about divinatory statements in Zhōuyì(周易). First of all, it introduces ‘mythical thinkings’ and explains them in association with ‘divination’ and ‘play’. Both of them survived primitive culture and permeated into modern lives. For human beings in ancient, divination was used to explain uncomprehensible and fearful phenomena and applied to every matters to prepare for the future. Divination was also a kind of play to bet for uncertainty. This thesis studies divination of Zhōuyì as a survived primitive culture through long scientific transition. Human being made Zhōuyì with the symbolic signs of yin and yang yao(爻) and composed them for 8 Guà(卦). The 384 yao were applied to human lives with divination. Specific phenomena were conceptualized as a sign system, and divination was developed into a character system called gua and yao statements, so that people could prepare for everything in the universe, natural phenomena, and changes. The purpose of this study is to find out the unique characteristics and significance of divination in primitive culture and to find the value of human history based on the development of Zhōuyì divination.
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Curtsmith, Phillip. "The Principle of Implicit Ignorance." Stance: an international undergraduate philosophy journal 5, no. 1 (2012): 63–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/s.5.1.63-73.
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The following is a foundationalist exercise based upon a single observation or postulate distinguishing one’s knowledge of information versus one’s knowledge of one’s former unknowing of that information. This postulate is titled the “principle of implicit ignorance.” Utilizing this postulate, several theorems are constructed including the equivalence to Hume’s thesis regarding the absence of knowledge of a necessary connection. The postulate is then negated, demonstrating equivalence to Kant’s thesis regarding the presence of synthetic a priori statements. The final result is a single general epistemic postulate that brokers between the two respective positions. Because both systems are the result of this general principle, rejecting the results of one system necessarily forces one into the contrary position.
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Gruner, Charles R., Marsha W. Gruner, and Lara J. Travillion. "Another Quasi-Experimental Study of Understanding/Appreciation of Editorial Satire." Psychological Reports 69, no. 3 (1991): 731–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1991.69.3.731.
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College students completed a 17-item scale measuring the “propensity to argue controversial topics” and 7 other nominal-scale independent variables. They then read three editorial satires and checked which of five statements was the intended thesis of each satire's author. They also rated each satire on interestingness and funniness. Analysis indicated dependence between understanding of satire and sex and regular readership of “The Far Side.”
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Szymik, Stefan Henryk. "The Corinthian Opponents of the Resurrection in 1 Cor 15:12." Biblical Annals 10, no. 3 (2020): 437–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/biban.8675.
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The paper contributes to the discussion regarding the Corinthian opponents of the resurrection of the dead (1 Cor 15:12). In particular, it attempts to re-examine the thesis of the Epicurean framework of this controversy. The first part focuses on the main lines of interpretation of 1 Cor 15:12 and the presentation of the Epicurean thesis. It is followed by an analysis of Paul’s polemical statements against the thesis of his Corinthian opponents, “there is no resurrection of the dead” (1 Cor 15:12; cf. vv. 19, 29-34, 35). It is assumed that Paul clearly says that his opponents deny a bodily resurrection and future life – there is nothing after death. The third part of the paper reconsiders some hermeneutic factors concerning the identity of the Corinthian opponents of the resurrection. 1 Cor 15 contains terminological and ideological parallels to Epicureanism, especially, by way of opposition. Yet, the valuation of these data remains an open question.
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Ruichao, Hu,. "Role and Liability of the Auditors in the Eu and in China: From Supervision Perspective." Review of European Studies 7, no. 12 (2015): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/res.v7n12p170.
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<p>False financial statements have been found in audit report recently. How to prevent fraud and protect investors and debtors becomes more important. The key issue is to define the role of auditors in audit service. It shall be analyzed from multiple perspectives. The liability of auditors is another critical issue, which is consecutive part to the first issue. The second issue would be the relief procedure for investors. If this procedure functions well, it could strengthen the effectiveness of the audit regime. This thesis would discuss these issues from comparative perspectives: the EU and China. Since the legal background and economic development are different, the effect of same regime may differ a lot. This is what this thesis tries to reveal.</p>
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Astuti, Amelia Yuli, and Febi Oktisyafyeni. "The Influence of Marketing Statements Found in Women’s Cosmetic Products to Their Mindset in Determining the Definition of Beauty." Jurnal Ilmiah Langue and Parole 1, no. 2 (2018): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.36057/jilp.v1i2.157.
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This journal discusses about the influence of the marketing statements found in women’s cosmetic products to their mindset in determining the definition of beauty. The writer takes the data from the marketing statements that happened in the commercial advertisements of four most used and commonly shown in audio visual media, such as television, which are Pond’s, Citra, Shinzui, and Garnier. The Technique of collecting the data of this thesis is the observation technique which then continued by writing down the conversatios that includes the marketing statements of the commercial advertisements into a form of a transcription. The writer uses the speech-act theory by John Langshaw Austin to analyze the influence of the marketing statements which presented through the conversations in the commercial advertisements, the theory of signs by Charles William Morris to analyze the signs that showed up in the commercial advertisements, and the theory of meaning by Charles Kay Ogden and Ivor Amstrong Richards to analyze the meaning of the symbols of signs that showed up in both the conversations and the narration. The result of this study shows that in every part of those products commercial advertisements, the marketing statements always try to influence the women to believe that indeed having white/bright/light skin means beautiful.
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Jukonienė, Birutė, Ona Gudaitienė, and Melanija Sinevičienė. "The final thesis – learning outcome of professional bachelor." Buhalterinės apskaitos teorija ir praktika, no. 14 (December 18, 2013): 121–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/batp.2013.13469.
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The article examines the procedure and issues of preparation, defence and assessment of graduation papers of students majoring in accounting at the Faculty of Economy of Vilnius College. A graduation paper – a generalization of all study results on which basis the author is awarded a professional bachelor’s degree – is the most important form of student’s independent work that discloses his/her preparedness for work. While preparing and defending a graduation paper, graduates have a possibility to demonstrate the knowledge acquired as well as practical skills. The graduation paper analyses theoretical and practical aspects of the formation and implementation of an accounting policy in a business company; provides conclusions and suggestions for future perspectives. After examining and analysing the preparation and assessment of graduate papers in the accounting study programme at the Faculty of Economics of Vilnius College, it may be claimed that the most popular topics of graduation papers in 2013 were as follows: preparation of a set of financial statements and analysis of indicators; accounting and analysis of fixed tangible assets; accounting and analysis of income. 
 The defence of graduation papers is a public procedure and takes place in a sitting-meeting of a Qualifying Commission appointed by order of the Director of Vilnius College and is assessed in conformity with the procedure laid down in the methodological instructions for study works. Reviewers and the Qualifying Commission evaluated the majority of graduation papers as “excellent” and “good”. In terms of the competences achieved it may be claimed that 92 percent of all the graduation papers were evaluated at the highest (9-10 points) and average (7-8 points) level.
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Alonso, Gaston. "Response to Joshua Dunn's review ofOur Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education." Perspectives on Politics 9, no. 2 (2011): 395–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592711000491.
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Joshua Dunn's thoughtful review raises methodological and substantive issues that require clarification. According to Dunn, my coauthors and I “contend” that students' “statements” criticizing their lack of academic drive or that of their peers “show how students have ‘internalized’ the perspective of scholars such as Patterson.” This is evidence, he contends, that we “tend not to treat young people as ‘experts’ of their lives” when they failed to support our critique of the “culture of failure” thesis. However, we make no such contention. Moreover, his critique misrepresents our ethnographic approach. While researchers who conduct interviews as part of their methods often report statements by public officials and others to support their arguments, as ethnographers we engaged in an interpretative task.
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Hatcher, John S. "The Equality of Women: The Bahá’í Principle of Complementarity." Journal of Baha’i Studies 2, no. 3 (1990): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.31581/jbs-2.3.4(1990).
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The Bahá’í teachings simultaneously assert the equality of men and women while advocating in some cases distinct duties according to gender. Since the Bahá’í Faith also teaches that religious convictions should be examined by the “standards of science,” this ostensible paradox invites careful study. At the heart of the response to this query is the Universal House of Justice statement that “equality between men and women does not, indeed physiologically it cannot, mean identity of functions.” To appreciate and to accept this thesis that there can be gender distinction, even insofar as the assignment of fundamental tasks is concerned, without any attendant diminution in the role of women, we must turn to statements in the Bahá’í writings about the complementary relationship between men and women. Through a careful consideration of this principle, we can discover how there can indeed be gender distinction without inequality in status or function.
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Janura, Gema, and Ahyanuardi Ahyanuardi. "Analisis Kendala Mahasiswa dalam Penyelesaian Skripsi pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19." Jurnal Pendidikan Teknik Elektro 2, no. 2 (2021): 97–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/jpte.v2i2.123.
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This study aims to analyze data on student obstacles in completing thesis during the Covid-19 pandemic with the research subject of Padang State University (UNP) students in the 2016/2017 Electrical Engineering Education Study Program. This type of research is descriptive research. Data collection was carried out using a questionnaire or questionnaire using a Likert scale, as for the tests carried out, validity tests, reliability tests, the results of data obtained from 45 statements distributed, the results showed that there were 3 invalid statements with a reliability level of 0.94 and very high category . The data analysis used is a descriptive statistical technique using the average value of the mean, the standard deviation value and to determine how large the data distribution is using a score category of 1 to 5. The results show that student constraints during the Covid-19 pandemic have different category levels in students. for each indicator, in the high category there are: difficulty in writing a thesis by 40 percent, lazy in doing thesis and 40 percent of campus facilities. The students' obstacles in the medium category were: miscommunication by as much, a minimal student network as large, the length of the lecturer's response as large and the lack of student motivation as large. The obstacle for students in the low category is the difficulty of finding data in the field of . It can be concluded that the obstacles experienced by students during the Covid-19 pandemic are different, each individual graduating on time is the desired achievement for every student, if these obstacles can be overcome it will increase graduates in a timely manner.
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Pietersma, Henry. "A Critique of Two Recent Husserl Interpretations." Dialogue 26, no. 4 (1987): 695–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300018278.
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In an article which appeared in The Philosophical Review Karl Ameriks argues in favour of the rather surprising thesis that Husserl, his own statements and a host of commentators and critics notwithstanding, was a realist, i.e., a philosopher who held that “there are physical objects which exist outside consciousness and are not wholly dependent on it” (498). More recently, Harrison Hall, in his contribution to the volume Husserl, Intentionality, and Cognitive Science, has argued that in Husserl's view there is no legitimate philosophical issue between realism and idealism, because philosophy is concerned exclusively with meanings. Both interpretations are careful, documenting each point with texts, and contain several elements that are illuminating. Yet they are fundamentally mistaken as regards their main thesis, as I shall argue in this paper.
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Simoniti, Jure. "Hegel’s logic as the exposition of god from the end of the world." Filozofija i drustvo 26, no. 4 (2015): 852–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid1504852s.
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The article attempts to reconstruct the logical space within which, at the beginning of Hegel?s Logic, ?being? and ?nothing? are entitled to emerge and receive their names. In German Idealism, the concept of ?being? is linked to the form of a proposition; Fichte grounds a new truth-value on the absolute thesis of the ?thetical judgement?. And the article?s first thesis claims that Hegel couldn?t have placed ?being? at the beginning of this great system, if the ground of its logical space had not been laid out by precisely those shifts of German Idealism that posited the ontological function of the judgement. At the same time, the abstract negation, the absence of a relation and sufficient reason between ?being? and ?nothing?, reveals a structure of an irreducibly dual beginning. The logical background of this original duality could be constituted by the invention of the ?transcendental inter-subjectivity? in German Idealism, manifested, for instance, in Hegel?s life-and-death struggle of two self-consciousnesses. The second thesis therefore suggests that ?being? and ?nothing? are elements of the logical space, established in concreto in a social situation of (at least) two subjects one of whom poses an affirmative statement and the other negates it abstractly. From here, one could draw out the coordinates of a sphere by the name of ?public? whose structure is defined by the invalidation of two basic laws of thought, the law of non-contradiction and the principle of sufficient reason. The article shows how only the statements capable of absorbing negation, of sustaining a co-existence of affirmation and its symmetrical, abstract negation, can climb the ladder of public perceptibility and social impact.
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Kilpatrick, Jeremy. "Editorial." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 17, no. 3 (1986): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc.17.3.0162.
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In January at a conference in Berkeley, California, on shaping the research base for science and mathematics education, Lauren Resnick noted that cognitive psychology has begun to amass substantial evidence to support the proposition that humans are builders, not recorders, of knowledge. She used the term constructivism to characterize that thesis, acknowledging at the same time that cognitive psychology has few strong statements to make about how learning occurs. In her opinion, cognitive psychology offers not so much theories as metaphors.
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YUE, HOUGUANG. "FROM COMPUTING TO INTERACTION: ON THE EXPRESSIVENESS OF ASYNCHRONOUS PI-CALCULUS." International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science 24, no. 03 (2013): 349–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0129054113500081.
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In line with the framework of Theory of Interaction proposed by Yuxi Fu, we formalize the asynchronous theory in model independent way. Borrowing the idea from Church-Turing Thesis, we introduce ℂ-calculus as a minimal interaction model. We give model independent characterization for asynchronous bisimulation equivalence which is generalized to subbisimilarity used as the criteria for Interaction Completeness of interaction models. We present an encoding from ℂ-calculus to asynchronous π-calculus and prove that it satisfies the subbisimilarity statements.