... Hobbesian feasibility consequentialism Estlund David and the global prime requirement hierarchy of requirements Jackson Frank global prime requirement compliance assumption personal virtue just society fundamental normative principle fact sensitivity feasibility justice ideal theory...

... that may be responses to years of indifference or oppression, and other underlying factors that impact perceptions. It is through the sensitivity of the ethnic lens that barriers associated with ethnicity can be removed. Ethnic lens Cambodians Cubans Koreans Laotians Mexicans Puerto Ricans...

... The Practice of the Presence of God identifying meaninglessness pluralism alienation appreciation Brother Lawrence identifying increasing meaning meaning in life meaning of life recognizing sensitivity valuing Some people who have overcome their perfectionism, combated successfully arguments...

.... A single number that represents the observer’s sensitivity to the signal is better. The theories discussed in this book provide this measure. To develop a measure of sensitivity, it is necessary to go beyond a simple description of the data. A measure that describes the detectability of a signal must...

... representation, based on the normal or Gaussian distribution, which distinguishes between sensitivity to a signal and bias of the response. How to measure both quantities is described. What an “ideal” observer would do is derived from the model. The sources cited in the previous chapter apply here...

... perceptual content perceptual justification theory ladenness Thomasson A sensitivity apprehension Clarke Doane J Huemer M Lewis D skepticism Pust J Sosa E Srinivasan A birds example charity Witmer D arbitrariness arguments gunk incars islands nihilism vagueness the argument from cogito...

... A Williamson T Yablo S Yang E arrangements composition Leibniz’s Law arguments from Wallace M analytic entailments grounding perceptual justification Woodward J folk the sensitivity gunk perceptual content vagueness the argument from Huemer M Pryor J Siegel S Travis C troglodytes...

..., thought, and perception. concepts Descartes Rene Frege Gottlob occasion sensitivity way for things to be reasons world involvingness truth recognizability representing Fodor Jerry meaning Travis Charles Gottlob Frege language perception thought occasion-sensitivity Travis cases...

...This chapter explores the dominant semantics for modal expressions in formal semantics, including Kratzer’s developments for context-sensitive natural language semantics. It explains how an account developed in terms of the technical devices of ordering sources and background conditions can be used...

...On the grounds of a commitment to proportionality in sentencing and an expressivist penal theory, and in the absence of any account of so-called deontological desert, this chapter argues that judgments of deserved punishment will be context sensitive; that is, constituted by what is popularly...

...Fig. 6.1 Geometrical representation of the sensitivity gradient calculation expressed in ( 6.6 ). Fig. 6.2 Observation contribution to the global forecast error reduction grouped by observation type as defined in ( 5.1 ). The measure is given in percent and for the months of September...

...This chapter sets out to defend semantic minimalism. Semantic minimalism holds inter alia that there are relatively few context-sensitive expressions (essentially just the obvious cases involving indexicals, demonstratives, etc.) and that the context of utterance has little...

...This chapter shows how the major lessons of the preceding chapters apply to cases of policy‐relevant research other than hormesis. It argues that those who investigate endocrine disruption and multiple chemical sensitivity also encounter at least four major categories of value judgments: (1...

..., community building, evidence of efficacy, cultural sensitivity, and sustainability. It then focuses on preventative approaches and setting the stage for intervention. stress events interventions families health values based intervention alcohol substance abuse disaster events disasters PTSD post...

... of a reason evaluative perspectives sensitivity tact children vulnerability infertility abortion adoption L. A. Paul loss The reader has probably noticed that the posture of this book is a defensive one. It is true that I set out to explain both what aspiration is and how it relates to questions...

...) pioneered the concept of receptors for chemical mediators. He found that the contraction of skeletal muscle induced by applying nicotine can be blocked by curare; moreover, the sensitivity to nicotine proved higher at the nerve entry zone than in other regions of the muscle. He also noted that this nicotine...

...It has often been observed that the meaning of a word may be affected by the other words which occur in the same sentence. How are we to account for this phenomenon of ‘semantic flexibility’? This chapter argues that semantic flexibility reduces to context-sensitivity and does not raise...

... perceptual grouping motion coherence handedness orientation sensitivity It might seem odd to ask about the role of object recognition in the spatial profile of people with Williams syndrome. After all, their hallmark deficit is reflected in visuospatial construction tasks such as block construction...

... dependence contextualism contextualist theories discourse contextualism Gowans Chris metaethical contextualism metaethical relativism relativism deontic modals context sensitivity Yalcin Seth linguistic theory Björnsson Gunnar Finlay Stephen Plunkett David Sundell Tim discourse disagreement...

... that unique features of character can be important to value. Sensitivity to nuance is, thus, crucial to all judgments of 145 character. Finally, character also is personal in that there are many sharply different ways in which to have a very good character or a very good life: That someone's character...