10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELIORATIVE»
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meliorative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Reconstructing Reason and Representation
In my view, there are two kinds of categorical rationality (epistemic rationality):
meliorative (first-person) and non- meliorative (third-person) rationality. These
kinds of rationality often result in, respectively, meliorative (first-person) and ...
2
The Epistemological Spectrum: At the Interface of Cognitive ...
A theory of meliorative epistemic competence would describe humanly
achievable forms of competence to which humans might realistically aspire. Such
a theory might well have implications for strong melioration—effective steps that
might be ...
David K. Henderson, Terry Horgan, 2011
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Soil Science: Definitions in ...
Melanised 524 meliorative soil survey 4952 Melanised (S.Clas., FRB) A qualifier
designating soils with a solum or a horizon that acquired a very dark colour,
although the organic C content remained modest. f mélanisé d Melanisiert e ...
A. Canarache, I.I. Vintila, I. Munteanu, 2006
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Handbook of Decision Making
(Stanlis, 1963, 602) Thus while adaptive conservatives join with meliorative
liberals in embracing increment- alism as the best method of policy making, they
differ from meliorative liberals in their attitude toward reform and innovation.
Although ...
5
Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assessments
Thus even in the late classical doctrines "the normal tends unavowedly to be
identified with the right," and there persists an acceptance of the uncritical
conviction derived from the idea of natural law that there is a meliorative trend in
the course ...
John Cunningham Wood, 1993
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The Limits of Policy Change: Incrementalism, Worldview, and ...
The significant advantages stemming from incrementalism would seem to imply
the superiority of the worldview of its founders, the meliorative liberals. Ironically,
however, to the extent that the fallibility of mankind is an enduring condition of ...
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Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of ...
I have divided all pejoratives into similar groups according to the ability of their
base stems to add the opposite, i.e., the meliorative suffix. I found four groups: 1)
the largest group was formed by pejoratives with negative emotive meanings
from ...
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Reliable Knowledge and Social Epistemology: Essays on the ...
I don't want to imply that meliorative epistemology should entail a dogmatic
stance against all sorts of religion from the start—but if certain aspects of religious
beliefs should have an epistemically rational justification, then meliorative ...
Gerhard Schurz, Markus Werning, 2009
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What Makes Grammaticalization?: A Look from Its Fringes and ...
(ii) -uccio: from a diminutive suffix to a meliorative/pejorative suffix. Whereas still
in the nineteenth century -uccio referred primarily to spatial dimensions, i.e. it had
diminutive meaning (80% of the -Hcc/oformations in the Promessi Sposi of ...
Walter Bisang, Nikolaus Himmelmann, Björn Wiemer, 2004
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On the Innate
Meliorative Potential of the Human Mind: A ...
Drawing upon the work of Newell on the sematic differences between inter-, trans-, pluri- and cross-disciplinarity to build an epistemological framework, the conclusions from Heideggerian existentialism, property dualism and positivistic ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MELIORATIVE»
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meliorative is used in the context of the following news items.
Lincoln and the Jews
Although meliorative explanations have been offered for Grant, his rhetoric and order were discriminatory at best. Lincoln's other Generals like ... «TIME, Mar 15»
Off the Shelf
... Earned Income Tax Credit) and meliorative reforms. To put things in (dismal) perspective, consult Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, ... «Harvard Magazine, Dec 14»
A proposal to save the middle class … by cutting carbon pollution
... power of unions, and occasional meliorative gestures like raising the minimum wage, but nothing that promises to reverse the larger trends. «Grist, Nov 14»
Book World: Denis Johnson's 'The Laughing Monsters' offers more …
Anyone anticipating a moral, an expression of patriotism, a meliorative impulse, a political solution to Africa's manifold problems or a neat tying ... «Washington Post, Oct 14»
Love Is the Answer to Empire
It does mean, from my angle of vision, that the only meliorative political acts are those which decentralize, which devolve power to the most ... «The American Conservative, Oct 14»
Hurry Up and Wait
... that perception, as even Justice Ginsburg recognizes. Political restraint, such as the court showed yesterday, can have a meliorative effect. «Wall Street Journal, Oct 14»
The Great Society at Fifty
It also stands as the high-water mark for Washington's confidence in the broad meliorative properties of government social policy, scientifically ... «The Weekly Standard, May 14»
Toy stories and product placements: a cautionary tale
But here the meliorative political allegory disappears into its own navel and comes out the other side in a sickeningly manipulative Oedipal ... «The Conversation, Apr 14»
The $200K lesson I learned from getting shot
If I'd been uninsured at the time, I might have had a few meliorative financial options. I'm fortunate enough to have parents who could have ... «Salon, Sep 13»
The demolition man
If, however, he really does believe all meliorative work is pointless, it would be good to hear the case for why we should embrace contemplation ... «Financial Times, Feb 13»
