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The Camel's Nose Is In The Tent: Rules, Theories And Slippery Slopes, Mario Rizzo, Glen Whitman Dec 2003

The Camel's Nose Is In The Tent: Rules, Theories And Slippery Slopes, Mario Rizzo, Glen Whitman

Mario Rizzo

The authors provide a general theory for understanding and evaluating slippery slope arguments (SSAs) and their associated slippery slope events (SSEs). The central feature of the theory is a structure of discussion within which all arguments take place. The structure is multi-layered, consisting of decisions, rules, theories,and research programs. Each layer influences and shapes the layer beneath: rules influences decisions, theories influence the choice of rules, and research programs influence the choice of theories. In this structure, SSAs take the form of meta-arguments, as they purport to predict the future development of arguments in this structure. Evaluating such arguments requires …


Kapitalizmus És Szocializmus Bibó István Gondolatrendszerében [István Bibó On Capitalism And Socialism], Peter Cserne Oct 2003

Kapitalizmus És Szocializmus Bibó István Gondolatrendszerében [István Bibó On Capitalism And Socialism], Peter Cserne

Péter Cserne

Although István Bibó’s (1911–1979) reputation in Hungary is based on his political and historical essays, he has written much on economic and social issues as well. As an anti-speculative thinker, he formulated his views each time in the context of actual economic and social problems. Starting from the critique of modernity and a sort of elitism in the 30’s, his interest turned toward the serious deformations of Hungarian social structure, especially the situation of the agrarian population. His great private lecture on The Meaning of the Development of European Society (1971–72) treated the history of Europe from a philosophical perspective …


Middle East — If There’S A Will, There’S A Way, Muqtedar Khan Jul 2003

Middle East — If There’S A Will, There’S A Way, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This articles expresses hope for Arab-Israeli peace.


A Reforma Agrária, A Luta Pela Terra E Os Assentamentos Rurais: Uma Questão Pública Histórico-Estrutural Em Análise, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jul 2003

A Reforma Agrária, A Luta Pela Terra E Os Assentamentos Rurais: Uma Questão Pública Histórico-Estrutural Em Análise, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Quelques Conseils À Nos Nouveau Diplomés, Fathi Habashi Jun 2003

Quelques Conseils À Nos Nouveau Diplomés, Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

An advice, the old wise man Polonius offered to the young Hamlet was “Neither a borrower, nor a lender be”, may be no longer pertinent. Some more relevant advices are offered to new graduates of the twentieth century. Available in English, French, and Spanish


India-China 1962 War And Role Of Nehru, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Apr 2003

India-China 1962 War And Role Of Nehru, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

This paper attempts the role of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Indian Prime Minister in 1962 war with China.


Empowering Diversity, Sylvie Duran Mar 2003

Empowering Diversity, Sylvie Duran

Sylvie E. Duran Mrs.

Presentation on cultural diversity and the approach of Cultural Association InCorpore 1996-2003


Novos Paradigmas Do Ensino E Sistemas Integrados De Informações Em Engenharia: Uma Convergência Na Melhoria Da Aprendizagem, Eloi Martins Senhoras Feb 2003

Novos Paradigmas Do Ensino E Sistemas Integrados De Informações Em Engenharia: Uma Convergência Na Melhoria Da Aprendizagem, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


A Human-Computer Dialogue System For Maori Language Learning, Lee Luan Ng Jan 2003

A Human-Computer Dialogue System For Maori Language Learning, Lee Luan Ng

Dr Ng Lee Luan

In this paper we describe Te Kaitito, a bilingual human-machine dialogue system which supports conversational interactions in English and in Mäori, the indigenous language of New Zealand. In particular we consider how Te Kaitito can best be incorporated into Mäori second language learning experiences.


Using The Va To Get Wwii Military Records, James Gross Jan 2003

Using The Va To Get Wwii Military Records, James Gross

James Gross

No abstract provided.


Designing Relational Database Structures For Storing And Processing Language Questionnaire Data: Example From A Study In Dictionary Use, Robert Lew Jan 2003

Designing Relational Database Structures For Storing And Processing Language Questionnaire Data: Example From A Study In Dictionary Use, Robert Lew

Robert Lew

The author discusses a methodological approach to storing, structuring, and processing complex data for a large-scale dictionary use study.


Genocide In The Non-Western World: Implications For Holocaust Studies, Robert Cribb Jan 2003

Genocide In The Non-Western World: Implications For Holocaust Studies, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

The example of the Holocaust has tended to dominate genocide studies, but the broader study of extreme violence makes it difficult to exclude the mass killing of indigenous peoples and mass killing on political grounds from the category of genocide.


Japan And Transformation Of National Identities In The Imperial Era, Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb Jan 2003

Japan And Transformation Of National Identities In The Imperial Era, Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Japan's view of the nationality of its Asian neightbours took many forms during the imperial era. In some respects Japan asserted its superiority to those neighbours, in other respects saw them as nations with a standing equal to that of Japan. The working out of these two views reflected Japanese strategic interests.


Environmentalism In Indonesian Politics, Robert Cribb Jan 2003

Environmentalism In Indonesian Politics, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Environmential politics emerged in Indonesia during the autheoritarian Suharto era. Rather than being a reaction to Suharto's predatory approach to the environment, many environmental policies were closely tied to the managerial, technocratic and campaign-oriented approach of the New Order.


A Cluster And Spatial Analysis Of Ceremonial Architecture At Late Postclassic Mayapan, Timothy W. Pugh Jan 2003

A Cluster And Spatial Analysis Of Ceremonial Architecture At Late Postclassic Mayapan, Timothy W. Pugh

Timothy W Pugh

No abstract provided.


The Exemplary Center Of The Late Postclassic Kowoj Maya, Timothy W. Pugh Jan 2003

The Exemplary Center Of The Late Postclassic Kowoj Maya, Timothy W. Pugh

Timothy W Pugh

No abstract provided.


El Cerro De Las Balsas Y El Chinchorro: Una Aproximación A La Arqueología Del Poblamiento Prehistórico E Ibérico En La Albufereta De Alicante., Pablo Rosser Jan 2003

El Cerro De Las Balsas Y El Chinchorro: Una Aproximación A La Arqueología Del Poblamiento Prehistórico E Ibérico En La Albufereta De Alicante., Pablo Rosser

pablo rosser

PABLO ROSSER, J. ELAYI, J.M. PÉREZ BURGOS. Estudio amplio de las intervenciones arqueológicas realizadas en el Cerro de las Balsas / Tossal de les Basses, Albufereta, Alicante. Monográfico nº 2, de la Revista LQNT.


Science, Identity, And The Construction Of The Gay Political Narrative, Nancy J. Knauer Jan 2003

Science, Identity, And The Construction Of The Gay Political Narrative, Nancy J. Knauer

Nancy J. Knauer

This Article contends that the current debate over gay civil rights is, at base, a dispute over the nature of same-sex desire. Pro-gay forces advocate an ethnic or identity model of homosexuality based on the conviction that sexual orientation is an immutable, unchosen, and benign characteristic. The assertion that, in essence, gays are "born that way," has produced a gay political narrative that rests on claims of shared identity (i.e., homosexuals are a blameless minority) and arguments of equivalence (i.e., as a blameless minority, homosexuals deserve equal treatment and protection against discrimination). The pro-family counter-narrative is based on a behavioral …


Steamboats Of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Lecture Presented At The Atlantic Highlands Historical Society, Atlantic Highlands, Nj, November, 2003., Megan E. Springate Jan 2003

Steamboats Of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Lecture Presented At The Atlantic Highlands Historical Society, Atlantic Highlands, Nj, November, 2003., Megan E. Springate

Megan E. Springate

Steamboats provided a critical commercial link between Monmouth County, New Jersey and New York City from the early nineteenth through the third quarter of the twentieth centuries. Over 200 vessels have been documented as plying Monmouth County's waters, carrying farm goods to market and leisure patrons to the shore. This presentation summarizes the steamboat's history in Monmouth County, and provides several examples of vessels that ran in the area.


Peirce's "Diagrammatic Reasoning" As A Solution Of The Learning Paradox, Michael H.G. Hoffmann Jan 2003

Peirce's "Diagrammatic Reasoning" As A Solution Of The Learning Paradox, Michael H.G. Hoffmann

Michael H.G. Hoffmann

How can we reach “new” levels of knowledge if “new” means that there is something “evolved” that cannot be generated simply by deduction or by induction from what has been given before. The paper’s first goal is to show that two paradigmatic attempts at solving this so-called “learning paradox,” Plato’s apriorism and Aristotle’s inductivism, form two horns of a dilemma: While the inductivist cannot justify any representation of data without assuming a priori given hypotheses, the apriorist cannot justify why a certain application of given ideas is correct without being caught in an infinite regress. The second goal is to …


Lernende Lernen Abduktiv: Eine Methodologie Kreativen Denkens, Michael H.G. Hoffmann Jan 2003

Lernende Lernen Abduktiv: Eine Methodologie Kreativen Denkens, Michael H.G. Hoffmann

Michael H.G. Hoffmann

No abstract provided.


Material Culture As Memory: Combs And Cremation In Early Medieval Britain, Howard M. R. Williams Jan 2003

Material Culture As Memory: Combs And Cremation In Early Medieval Britain, Howard M. R. Williams

Howard M. R. Williams

This paper argues that mortuary practices can be understood as ‘technologies of remembrance’. The frequent discovery of combs in early medieval cremation burials can be explained by their mnemonic significance in the post-cremation rite. Combs (and other objects used to maintain the body’s surface in life) served to articulate the reconstruction of the deceased’s personhood in death through strategies of remembering and forgetting. This interpretation suggests new perspectives on the elationships between death, material culture and social memory in early medieval Europe.


Universidade E Responsabilidade Social: Uma Proposta Para A Promoção Da Integração Social Do Idoso, Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2003

Universidade E Responsabilidade Social: Uma Proposta Para A Promoção Da Integração Social Do Idoso, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Incubação De Cooperativas Populares: Um Projeto De Responsabilidade Social Da Universidade Via Extensiva, Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2003

Incubação De Cooperativas Populares: Um Projeto De Responsabilidade Social Da Universidade Via Extensiva, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Empresa Júnior E Incubadora Tecnológica: Duas Facetas De Um Novo Paradigma De Interação Empresa-Universidade, Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2003

Empresa Júnior E Incubadora Tecnológica: Duas Facetas De Um Novo Paradigma De Interação Empresa-Universidade, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Ensino, Incubação E Empresas Juniores: As Três Facetas Da Universidade Brasileira Inseridas No Desenvolvimento Do Empreendedorismo No Século Xxi, Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2003

Ensino, Incubação E Empresas Juniores: As Três Facetas Da Universidade Brasileira Inseridas No Desenvolvimento Do Empreendedorismo No Século Xxi, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Introdução Ao Estudo Do Empreendedorismo E A Sua Correlação Com As Pequenas E Médias Empresas, Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2003

Introdução Ao Estudo Do Empreendedorismo E A Sua Correlação Com As Pequenas E Médias Empresas, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


The Press For Help Project Concept, Program And Working Paper Of Emmanuel Mario B Santos And His Marc Guerrero Communications Inc., Emmanuel Mario B. Santos Aka Marc Guerrero Jan 2003

The Press For Help Project Concept, Program And Working Paper Of Emmanuel Mario B Santos And His Marc Guerrero Communications Inc., Emmanuel Mario B. Santos Aka Marc Guerrero

Emmanuel Mario B Santos aka Marc Guerrero

FORETHOUGHT. DECLARATION OF IDEAOLOGY AND PRINCIPLES. VISION. MISSION. VALUES. GOALS. BASIC HELP project. EDUCATIONAL HELP project. MEDICAL HELP project. LEGAL HELP project. EMERGENCY HELP project. LIVELIHOOD HELP project. SPIRITUAL and CULTURAL HELP project. ENVIRONMENTAL HELP project. REENGINEERING HELP project. INTERNATIONAL HELP project. QUADRO CREDO Matthew 5.1-12, the Jerusalem Bible. The Universal Filipino Beatitudes. SALIN SA FILIPINO. DESIDERATA. AFTERTHOUGHT.


Consensus, Legitimacy, And The Exercise Of Judgement In Political Deliberation, Cillian Mcbride Jan 2003

Consensus, Legitimacy, And The Exercise Of Judgement In Political Deliberation, Cillian Mcbride

Cillian McBride

Deliberative Democrats have been criticised for promoting an overly consensual style of politics. Agonistic democrats argue that this is because they allow justice to displace ‘the political’ while others make the opposite charge: deliberative democrats pay insufficient attention to justice and the confrontational style of politics which may be necessary to secure social justice. I argue that the deliberative model aims at strengthening democratic legitimacy, not at producing consensus and that it is centrally concerned with stimulating the exercise of citizens’ capacity for judgement. The duty of civility should be regarded as a duty to make impartial judgements, not as …


From Alchemy To Atomic Bombs. Book Review By George Kauffman, Fathi Habashi Jan 2003

From Alchemy To Atomic Bombs. Book Review By George Kauffman, Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

Review of the book "From Alchemy to Atomic Bombs" by Fathi Habashi published by Métallurgie Extractive Québec. The review is written by Professor George Kauffman at California State University, Fresno.