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Steven Cammiss and others
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, gqaf003, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqaf003
Published: 14 March 2025
... cost of political divestment. Nevertheless, the Colston 4 trial is exceptional in a process that typically pays little operational respect to the integrity principle. protest trials remorse necessity duress The criminal trial, while focused on an epistemic search for truth, is more than...
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Mark Povich
Published: 25 February 2025
...: the necessity of identity and the substitutivity of identicals into modal contexts. modal logic necessity normativism conventionalism analyticity Burgess (1997) , building on Quine (1953) , convincingly argued that claims in quantified modal logic cannot be understood as synonymous with or logically...
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Ashley Shaw
The Philosophical Quarterly, pqae146, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae146
Published: 12 December 2024
... explain. The plan is as follows. Section  1 develops an analysis of need ascriptions as involving the attribution of modal properties concerned with necessity. Section  2 outlines a distinction between causation and causal explanation. Drawing on the analysis of need ascriptions, I argue...
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Francesco Olivieri and others
Journal of Logic and Computation, exae044, https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exae044
Published: 06 September 2024
...-monotonic reasoning necessity sufficiency The idea of revising a non-monotonic theory is valued in the community of logic since some time. A non-monotonic theory is a set of knowledge tokens expressed in a logical system whose inferential apparatus is capable of generating new conclusions both when...
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Hadiza Yusuf and others
Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2024, rmae011, https://doi.org/10.1093/jphsr/rmae011
Published: 21 June 2024
...Hadiza Yusuf; Shafiu Mohammed; Mohammed Garba Magaji; Bilkisu Bello Maiha; Shakirat Iyabo Bello Patient’s medication necessity and concerns beliefs were assessed using the Patients’ Beliefs about Medicine Questionnaire (BMQ Specific). This self-report measure has proven validity, reliability...
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Louise Foley and others
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Volume 57, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 561–570, https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaad004
Published: 31 March 2023
... was higher when necessity beliefs were high and concern beliefs were low. Nonreciprocal effects were also present in both analyses (slope [Analysis 1]: β = 0.05, p = .006; slope [Analysis 2]: β = 0.04, p = .043), indicating that adherence was higher when both necessity...
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Julio De Rizzo
The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 73, Issue 4, October 2023, Pages 1315–1323, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqac054
Published: 12 September 2022
.... In that these claims have a distinctive modal force, this recognition has far-reaching consequences that go beyond a defence of pluralism. grounding de re de dicto mereology necessity explanation Is the macro grounded in the micro? That is, is every truth about a macroscopic object fully...
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Benjamin Planque and others
ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 79, Issue 6, August 2022, Pages 1815–1830, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac111
Published: 14 July 2022
... of explicit accounting for trophic interactions between the three pelagic species likely have had little impact on the robustness of past stock assessments and management in the Norwegian Sea. amphipods blue whiting chance and necessity modelling competition copepods herring krill linear inverse...
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Zitong Lu and others
Biometrika, Volume 110, Issue 2, June 2023, Pages 449–465, https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/asac038
Published: 09 July 2022
.... (2014) defined the probability of causation, and Pearl (2000) defined the probability of necessity to assess the causes of effects. For a case with multiple causes that could affect each other, this paper defines the posterior total and direct causal effects based on the evidence observed for post...
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Monika K Heller and others
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Volume 56, Issue 10, October 2022, Pages 989–1001, https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaab112
Published: 22 February 2022
... Medication beliefs Open-label placebo Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ) Necessity Concerns Framework (NCF) Nocebo mechanisms The prescription of medicine is one of the most common interventions in health care systems. Although medicines have health benefits, they can also have a negative...
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Harry Cleeveley
The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 72, Issue 4, October 2022, Pages 816–836, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqab061
Published: 03 December 2021
... necessities, or it is a priori true that there are none. There is no middle ground in which strong necessities are conceivable, but there happen not to be any. Either modal rationalism is an a priori truth, or it is a priori false. But which of these options is right? Given all these definitions, we have...
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Samuel Kimpton-Nye
The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 72, Issue 4, October 2022, Pages 875–895, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqab062
Published: 30 November 2021
... view according to which all worlds are nomologically identical, because it shows how the modal necessitarian can appease the orthodox contingentist about laws. contingency laws of nature modality necessity pragmatism real patterns Some philosophers think that laws of nature are contingent, others...
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Julio De Rizzo
Analysis, Volume 82, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 32–41, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anab004
Published: 20 September 2021
...Julio De Rizzo Abstract I provide a case-by-case definition of essential truths based on the notions of metaphysical necessity and ontological dependence. Relying on suggestions in the literature, I adopt a definition of the latter notion in terms of the notion of ground. The resulting account...
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Emily M Hawes and others
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, Volume 78, Issue 17, 1 September 2021, Pages 1591–1599, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajhp/zxab046
Published: 18 February 2021
...Emily M Hawes; Caron P Misita; Lindsey B Amerine; Suzanne J Francart In 2017, a growing trend of denials based on failure to establish medical necessity, as well as observation of payers referring to their published policies for coverage guidelines, led to justification of a medical necessity...
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Julio De Rizzo
Analysis, Volume 80, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 639–647, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anz083
Published: 24 January 2021
.../chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract Drawing from extensions of existing ideas in the logic of ground, a novel account of the grounds of necessity is presented, the core of which states that necessary truths are necessary because they stand in specific grounding connections. ground necessity...
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Fredrik Nyseth
The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 264–285, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa036
Published: 19 May 2020
... the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected] . Abstract According to linguistic conventionalism, necessities are to be explained in terms of the conventionally adopted rules that govern the use of linguistic expressions. A number of influential...
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Sarah Chapman and others
Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, Volume 14, Issue 10, October 2020, Pages 1394–1404, https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjz034
Published: 07 May 2020
... days after starting the baseline measures]. Our primary outcomes were self-reported perceptual and practical barriers [BMQ Specific Concerns, BMQ Specific Necessity, and Practical Barriers]. We also tested whether the intervention had effects on a range of secondary outcomes: adherence, beliefs about...
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Johan E Gustafsson
Analysis, Volume 80, Issue 3, July 2020, Pages 426–433, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anz048
Published: 22 January 2020
..., Dennett and Taylor’s alleged refutation fails. the Consequence Argument Daniel C. Dennett power necessity incompatibilism free will ability Daniel C. Dennett has long maintained that there’s something wrong with the Consequence Argument, which is an argument that, if determinism is true, no one...
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Charlotte Grund and others
Behavioral Ecology, Volume 30, Issue 4, July/August 2019, Pages 1136–1144, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz062
Published: 08 May 2019
... that chimpanzees engage more with an experimental device containing honey when they have travelled more and fed less immediately before the experiment. Necessity thus tunes the attention and interest of chimpanzees toward potential ecological opportunities, a necessary condition for tool use. Abstract Although...
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Thiago Xavier de Melo
The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 69, Issue 276, July 2019, Pages 534–554, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqz014
Published: 04 April 2019
... ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract According to sparse modalism, the notion of essence can be analysed in terms of necessity and naturalness. In this paper, I develop and defend a version of sparse modalism that is equipped...