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Have testing as only PART of the process of theory assessment. Use Super-Empirical Values ... 'Good' is a value judgment - thus it requires a set of shared values. ...
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The Way Not Taken or How to Do Things with an Infinite Regress Epistemic Naturalism The efficacy of science is a scientific question Giere, Laudan, etc. Impasse Two ...
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For learners to be able to make use of the L2 input in learning they need to be ... interactional adjustments by the NS or more competent interlocutor, facilitates ...
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How to Do Things with an Infinite Regress: A Learning Theoretic ... Unlimited Fallibilism: every method has its presupposition checked against experience. ...
Model fitting: selection and estimation ... latent parameter estimation as a means to model selection. The logic of model fitting (conditional syllogism) ...
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Consciousness is not a consequence of interactions between neurons in the brain ... x=guppy is a poorish example of a fish, and a poorish example of a pet, but it's ...
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1. Examples where external values are ... Sleeping Beauty/Prince Charming. Intellectual ability and biology. ... The Sleeping Beauty/Prince Charming Model ' ...
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1950: replace sidereal time with 'ephemeris time' This form of evidence can be very strong ... New second-order phenomena presuppose not only the theory of ...
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Becher (1635-1682) proposed combustible earth (as one of three earths composing ... novel prediction of new acids by Scheele (formic acid, lactic acid) ...
Under the BIR model, we assume that the ... The character strings car and automobile look different, though the concepts ... { car, automobile, vehicle} ...
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Yiddish had variants such as shlofn-pofn (sleep and stuff) and gelt-shpelt ' ... 'words that already begin with shm- do not easily undergo this process...this can ...
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