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Avicenna’s logics with sentence-type terms: 1. Wholly muttaṣil syllogisms
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Wilfrid Hodges
Journal of Logic and Computation, exae032, https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exae032
Published: 31 July 2024
... is close to that of George Boole’s ‘theory of Secondary Propositions’. Avicenna Boole syllogism hypothetical interpretations natural language logic adverbs of quantification The medieval scholar Abū Alī bin Sīnā (an Afghan on his father’s side) is often known more briefly as Ibn Sīnā...
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For an African elenchus: colonial and postcolonial misprisions and Classics in Africa
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David van Schoor
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 65, Issue 1, June 2022, Pages 55–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbac002
Published: 17 February 2023
... is chronically misprised, so that misprision itself becomes a feature of his experience and meaning. Offering examples of two kinds of popular interpretive stances and arguing that they represent typical but weak readings, the idea is developed that Africa requires elenchus as hermeneutic ideal, an epistemic...
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Equivalence between Varieties of Łukasiewicz–Moisil Algebras and Rings
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Blanca Fernanda López Martinolich and María del Carmen Vannicola
Logic Journal of the IGPL, Volume 31, Issue 5, October 2023, Pages 988–1003, https://doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/jzac061
Published: 06 August 2022
...Blanca Fernanda López Martinolich; María del Carmen Vannicola The functors and are the forgetful functors which assign to each algebra its universe. Each functor is called an interpretation of in . E-mail: [email protected] 8 6 2021 29 4 2022 30 6 2022...
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On an intuitionistic logic for pragmatics
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Gianluigi Bellin and others
Journal of Logic and Computation, Volume 28, Issue 5, July 2018, Pages 935–966, https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exv036
Published: 04 July 2015
... is to present different logics with an intended interpretation with respect to actual linguistic usage and thus clarify their relations, as it is in the case of intuitionistic pragmatics and classical semantics. But most of mathematics is not logic and it stands on its own: only in some cases we can...
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A Break from Caring for a Disabled Child: Parent Perceptions of the Uses and Benefits of Short Break Provision in England
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Michelle Collins and others
The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 44, Issue 5, July 2014, Pages 1180–1196, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs209
Published: 21 January 2013
... and this appeared to arise from contested interpretations of what ‘breaks from caring’ means. Our findings suggest social work assessments should not just identify that parents need a break from caring, but should also include an understanding of how parents make sense of their need for a break. Break from caring...
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Originality in software law: Belgian doctrine and jurisprudence remain divided
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Joris Deene
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 2, Issue 10, October 2007, Pages 692–698, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpm146
Published: 31 August 2007
... of software and from potential infringers. The time is right to put a preliminary question to the European Court of Justice on this matter. Much has already been written about European legal doctrine concerning how the originality criterion in software law should be interpreted. Some authors argue...
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Black African Children and the Child Protection System
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Claudia Bernard and Anna Gupta
The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 38, Issue 3, April 2008, Pages 476–492, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcl370
Published: 13 December 2006
... process; adopting a strengths-based orientation whilst at the same time safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for practice. African children child protection cultural interpretations child-rearing practices Before...
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Cardinal spaces and topological representations of bimodal logics
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Benedikt Löwe and Darko Sarenac
Logic Journal of the IGPL, Volume 13, Issue 3, May 2005, Pages 301–306, https://doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/jzi025
Published: 01 May 2005
.... E-mail: [email protected] © The Author, 2005. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. 2005 Abstract We look at bimodal logics interpreted by cartesian products of topological spaces and discuss the validity of certain bimodal formulae in products of so-called cardinal spaces...
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A Real-time Semantics of Temporal Logic of Actions
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Michael Kaminski and Yael Yariv
Journal of Logic and Computation, Volume 13, Issue 6, December 2003, Pages 921–937, https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/13.6.921
Published: 01 December 2003
... stuttering, real-time temporal interpretations Received 12 December 2001. 1Department of Computer Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] 2Zoran Microelectronics Ltd., MTM – Advanced Technology Center, P.O.B 2495, Haifa 31024, Israel. E...
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The Expressive Power of Temporal Logic of Actions
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Arkady Estrin and Michael Kaminski
Journal of Logic and Computation, Volume 12, Issue 5, October 2002, Pages 839–859, https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/12.5.839
Published: 01 October 2002
... interpretations; invariance under stuttering ...
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Being an Indian Today
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Ramin Jahanbegloo
Published: 10 January 2008
...Focusing on the identity of Indians in modern times, in this interview Romila Thapar shares her views on a variety of topics that help describe the modern Indian. The interview begins by looking at Indian nationalism and history, which has undergone both national and colonial interpretations...
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Gender Roles and Political, Social, and Economic Change in Bangladesh and Senegal
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Katherine Marshall
Published: 27 April 2017
... and religious) are contesting traditional religious teachings and tacit understandings of family and leadership. Backlash against women’s public roles and changing family dynamics in both countries is generally linked to more extremist interpretations of Islam, but there are broader conservative pressures...
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Miss Marple Reads the Bible: Detective Fiction and the Art of Biblical Interpretation
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David C. Steinmetz
Published: 03 November 2011
...An important difference between historical-critical interpretations of the Bible and the church's traditional exegesis rests on the difference between their valuation of the role and importance of a text's reception. Traditional exegesis is quite willing to read earlier parts of the Bible...
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Interlude: Some Alternative Interpretations
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Richard Healey
Published: 15 June 2017
...An understanding of quantum theory is manifested by the ability successfully and unproblematically to use it to further the scientific goals of prediction, explanation, and control of natural phenomena. An Interpretation seeks further to formulate or reformulate it as a fundamental theory...
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Simone Weil: Receiving the Iliad
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Barbara K. Gold
Published: 27 October 2016
... interrelated parts. It first discusses Weil’s personal background, then focuses on her reaction to/interpretation of the Iliad , and how her analysis of Homer’s poem must be read as gendered. Third, it details the ways in which (mostly) male critics of and commentators on the Iliad ...
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Chapter Two
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George Steiner
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Antigones
Published: 23 January 1986
...As early as the 5th or 4th century bc , we can already observe early images of Antigone being presented to Creon as observed through a vase-painting. Several interpretations and versions had already been made about Antigone, and the nature of such works ranged from narratives...
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Interlude The Prima Donna Creates
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Julian Rushton
Published: 29 June 2012
... or stereotype. More specifically, the chapter highlights the manner in which individual prima donnas have established and/or produced authoritative interpretations of key operatic roles, and the ways in which their personalities have been bound up with and continue to influence the performance of these roles...
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“Fiscourse / Digure” Of Nomadism, the Specter of Oedipus, and the Remnants of the Sublime
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Stephen H. Watson
Published: 23 September 2009
...This chapter discusses the variations in the philosophical interpretation of the works of Paul Klee. It suggests that it is not surprising for neoclassical or modernist interpretations of Klee to emerge given his interest in traditional painting and literature as well as the emerging avant-garde...
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Writer, Teacher … Director?
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Roger R. Tamte
Published: 15 July 2018
...Camp develops new football booklets in 1883: a referee’s book with rule interpretations to aid referee decision making, approved and published under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Football Association, and a historical statistical record of American football since intercollegiate competition...
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Entertaining Religious Ideas
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Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Published: 31 October 2012
...This chapter performs a detailed case study of several anime by director Miyazaki Hayao, showing the ways in which audience interpretations—including academic interpretations—of certain films as products deriving from directors' religious motivations or as media for imparting religious messages can...
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