Hypotheticals

Author : Leigh Kotsilidis
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770562998

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Hypotheticals by Leigh Kotsilidis Pdf

Science is a useful metaphor for understanding our lives, but it is often shown to be as fallible as the flawed humans who lean on it. This lively, thoughtful, and refreshingly speculative debut collection turns scientific method around to question science's faith in certainty, exploring the alternate meaning of "hypothetical" as something that is merely "supposed to be true." Under the poet's wide-angled, open-hearted gaze, scientific investigation begins to mirror the dark art of poetry, reinforcing what we believe about ourselves one minute, then abruptly throwing everything into question. Leigh Kotsilidis lives in Montreal, Quebec, where she works as a freelance graphic designer while completing her MFA in studio arts.

Author : Randall Munroe
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780544272996

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What If? by Randall Munroe Pdf

The creator of the incredibly popular webcomic xkcd presents his heavily researched answers to his fans' oddest questions, including “What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool?” and “Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?” 100,000 first printing.

Author : Lisa Yee
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545633994

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The Kidney Hypothetical: Or How to Ruin Your Life in Seven Days by Lisa Yee Pdf

Lisa Yee gives us her most fascinating flawed genius since Millicent Min. Higgs Boson Bing has seven days left before his perfect high school career is completed. Then it's on to Harvard to fulfill the fantasy portrait of success that he and his parents have cultivated for the past four years. Four years of academic achievement. Four years of debate championships. Two years of dating the most popular girl in school. It was, literally, everything his parents could have wanted. Everything they wanted for Higgs's older brother Jeffrey, in fact. But something's not right. And when Higgs's girlfriend presents him with a seemingly innocent hypothetical question about whether or not he'd give her a kidney . . . the exposed fault lines reach straight down to the foundations of his life. . . .

Author : Jill M. Fraley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Property
ISBN : 1531018173

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Property by Jill M. Fraley Pdf

"An innovative exam preparation tool, Property: Hypotheticals and Tools for Success addresses crucial problems students face as they approach exams. Exam-style hypotheticals are hard to find and never have detailed grading rubrics that will produce accurate scoring and actionable feedback. This book solves this problem by providing: A primer on legal analysis, with an emphasis on how to apply rules and a simple pattern for producing excellent exam answers. An extensive collection of hypotheticals that range from simple to difficult exam-level complexity. Detailed grading rubrics that allow you to self-grade in a way that produces actionable feedback. Explanations of common error patterns with specific and practicable strategies for correction. Sample great answers and bad answers with annotations showing what makes an answer effective or ineffective. Property: Hypotheticals and Tools for Success is equally helpful as a supplement to the basic property law course, a coursebook for academic success, or a practice book for the bar. The author, Professor Jill Fraley, is an award-winning teacher and scholar, who has held two Fulbright Scholar appointments and received the AALS Scholarly papers prize. She is a master teacher known for enabling super-successful students"--

Author : Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135419523

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Hypothetical Thinking by Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Pdf

Hypothetical thought involves the imagination of possibilities and the exploration of their consequences by a process of mental simulation. In this Classic Edition, Jonathan St B T Evans’ presents his pioneering Hypothetical Thinking Theory; an integrated theoretical account of a wide range of psychological studies on hypothesis testing, reasoning, judgement and decision making. Hypothetical Thinking Theory is built on three key principles and implemented in a version of Evans' well-known heuristic–analytic theory of reasoning. The central claim of this book is that this theory can provide an integrated account of apparently diverse phenomena including confirmation bias in hypothesis testing, acceptance of fallacies in deductive reasoning, belief biases in reasoning and judgement, biases of statistical judgement and numerous characteristic findings in the study of decision making. Featuring a reflective and insightful new introduction to the book, this classic edition discusses contemporary theory on cognitive biases, human rationality and dual-process theories of higher cognition. It will be of great interest to researchers, post graduates as well as advanced undergraduate students.

Author : Elizabeth Cohen
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590515839

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The Hypothetical Girl by Elizabeth Cohen Pdf

Love meets technology with a dash of quirk in this collection of highly original short stories An aspiring actress meets an Icelandic Yak farmer on a matchmaking Web site. An online forum for cancer support turns into a love triangle for an English professor, a Canadian fisherman, and an elementary school teacher living in Japan. A deer and a polar bear flirt via Skype. In The Hypothetical Girl a menagerie of characters graze and jockey, play and hook up in the online dating world with mixed and sometimes dark results. Flirting and communicating in chat rooms, through texts, e-mails, and IMs, they grope their way through a virtual maze of potential mates, falling in and out of what they think and hope may be true love. With levity and high style, Cohen takes her readers into a world where screen and keyboard meet the heart, with consequences that range from wonderful to weird. The Hypothetical Girl captures all the mystery, misery, and magic of the eternal search for human connection.

Author : Jane F. Hacking
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027281913

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Coding the Hypothetical by Jane F. Hacking Pdf

Conditionals encode speculation. They convey how events could have been different in the past or present, or might be different in the future if particular conditions had been or will be met. While all languages afford the means to speculate or hypothesize about possible events, the ways in which they do so vary. This work explores some of this variation through an analysis of the stucture and semantics of complex conditional sentences in Russian and Macedonian. It addresses typological questions about the general properties of natural language conditionals and examines the role of the grammatical categories tense, aspect, mood and status in the coding of conditional meaning. The book also discusses the relationship between the use of these categories and the shape of a language’s conditional system. For example, the use of tense in counterfactual contexts in Macedonian correlates with the grammaticalization of more shades of conditional meaning than are grammaticalized in Russian, which does not employ tense forms in this way. The study draws on data from a rich variety of sources and thus includes kinds of conditionals overlooked in many other studies. The book addresses issues of concern to Slavists and raises questions for those interested in conditionals and the coding of hypothetical meaning.

Author : Michael Charles Tobias,Jane Gray Morrison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030113193

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The Hypothetical Species by Michael Charles Tobias,Jane Gray Morrison Pdf

This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal, scientifically wide-ranging and original. It focuses on the geo-positioning of the human Self and its corresponding species. The book's overarching viewpoints and poignant through-story examine and powerfully challenge concepts associated historically with assertions of human superiority over all other life forms. Ultimately, The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution is a deeply considered treatise on the ecological and psychological state of humanity and her options – both within, and outside the rubrics of evolutionary research – for survival. This important work is beautifully presented with nearly 200 diverse illustrations, and is introduced with a foreword by famed paleobiologist, Dr. Melanie DeVore.

Author : Debra Ziegeler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 9027230544

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Hypothetical Modality by Debra Ziegeler Pdf

This book marks a new development in the field of grammaticalisation studies, in that it extends the field of grammaticalisation studies from relatively homogeneous languages to those possessing well-established and institutionalised second language varieties. In Hypothetical Modality, special reference is made to Singaporean English, a native-speaker L2 dialect of considerable importance in the South-East Asian region, and to the expression in the dialect of hypothetical modality, which appears to be indistinguishable from non-hypothetical modality in terms of the use of preterite or past forms of modal verbs. Within a grammaticalisation framework, a number of factors can be seen to be relevant to an explanation, including substratum and contact features such as tense/aspect marking, levels of lexical retention as an individual (psychological) phenomenon, and the fact that such dialects have a discontinuity in their development. In addition, the book defines pragmatic approaches to the understanding of hypothetical modality, in both diachronic and synchronic terms.

Author : Anthony Speca
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004321120

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Hypothetical Syllogistic and Stoic Logic by Anthony Speca Pdf

This book uncovers and examines the confusion in antiquity between Aristotle’s hypothetical syllogistic and Stoic logic, and offers a fresh perspective on the development of Aristotelian logic through to the early Middle Ages.

Author : Michael J. Lynch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197555163

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John Davenant's Hypothetical Universalism by Michael J. Lynch Pdf

Recently there has been a revival of interest in the views held by Reformed theologians within the parameters of confessional orthodoxy. For example, the doctrine known as 'hypothetical universalism'--the idea that although Christ died in some sense for every person, his death was intended to bring about the salvation only for those who were predestined for salvation. Michael Lynch focuses on the hypothetical universalism of the English theologian and bishop John Davenant (1572-1641), arguing that it has consistently been misinterpreted and misrepresented as a via media between Arminian and Reformed theology. A close examination of Davenent's De Morte Christi, is the central core of the study. Lynch offers a detailed exposition of Davenant's doctrine of universal redemption in dialogue with his understanding of closely related doctrines such as God's will, predestination, providence, and covenant theology. He defends the thesis that Davenant's version of hypothetical universalism represents a significant strand of the Augustinian tradition, including the early modern Reformed tradition. The book examines the patristic and medieval periods as they provided the background for the Lutheran, Remonstrant, and Reformed reactions to the so-called Lombardian formula ('Christ died sufficiently for all, effectually for the elect'). It traces how Davenant and his fellow British delegates at the Synod of Dordt shaped the Canons of Dordt in such a way as to allow for their English hypothetical universalism.

Author : Eric Hayot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199888573

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The Hypothetical Mandarin by Eric Hayot Pdf

Through readings of novels, medical case studies, travelers' reports, photographs, and paintings, The Hypothetical Mandarin shows that in the West the connection between sympathy and humanity, and indeed between sympathy and reality, has tended to refract with a remarkable frequency through the lens called "China." Eric Hayot, through keen interpretations of myriad art forms and nonfictional writings, reveals how Western responses to Chinese pain go to the heart of the relationship between language and the body, the social and philosophical experience of modernity, and the definition of a universal human subject. In short, this analysis reveals how four terms--sympathy, suffering, economic exchange, and representational exchange--establish the network that frames the historical discourse on China, sympathy, and modernity. It is a book that opens new possibilities for thinking about the West's relationship to China, past and present, and that establishes a new philosophical vantage from which to consider the question of empathy.

Author : Vance A. Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Flood forecasting
ISBN : UIUC:30112101032214

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Meteorology of Hypothetical Flood Sequences in the Mississippi River Basin by Vance A. Myers Pdf

This is the second of the two final reports on the meteorological findings. The present report covers the meteorological aspects of the hypothetical floods that evolved from a number of conferences between the Office of Chief of Engineers, the Mississippi River Commission, and the Weather Bureau, and which have been adopted by the Corps of Engineers as the current basis for design in the Lower Mississippi River Basin.

Author : David E. Prudic,James L. Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Groundwater flow
ISBN : UCR:31210018802080

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Results of Hypothetical Ground-water Pumping in Carson Valley, a River-dominated Basin in Douglas County, Nevada, and Alpine County, California by David E. Prudic,James L. Wood Pdf

Author : Orlo R. Nichols,Michael D. Clingman,Milton P. Glanz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Interest rates
ISBN : IND:30000091996342

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Internal Real Rates of Return Under the OASDI Program for Hypothetical Workers by Orlo R. Nichols,Michael D. Clingman,Milton P. Glanz Pdf