Smith on the practicality and objectivity of moral judgments by Strandberg Caj

“…The moral problem presented by Michael Smith in his seminal book with the same name consists of three claims that are intuitively plausible when considered separately, but seem incompatible when combined: moral judgments express beliefs about objective moral facts, moral judgments are practical in being motivational, and beliefs are unable to motivate by themselves. …”
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Prayer and (Im)Politeness by Ethan Jones

“…This is disappointing as the book of Psalms consists of performative prayers directed to Yhwh. …”
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A universidade necessária em Darcy Ribeiro: notas sobre um pensamento utópico by Adelia Miglievich Ribeiro, Glauber Rabelo Matias

“…By means of an analysis of central concepts in the book, O processo civilizatório, by Darcy Ribeiro, such as the evolutionary acceleration as an antithesis of reflexive modernization thus the autonomous appropriation of the necessary means in the process of development of a nation the article examines the meaning of the necessary university postulated by Darcy Ribeiro. …”
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Les consoles de l’Éternité, à l’ombre des ordinateurs : Les Cordelettes de Browser de Tristan Garcia by Arnaud Despax

“…Against such temptations, the book insists on the fact that matter is fundamental and claims a consolatory and relational purpose ; thus word games take part in the opening of a meaning that confirms that man belongs to an organic nature as well as he needs to part from it.…”
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HOW TO DISPEL THE FOG OVER THE PAST? POST-WAR CHILDREN, THEIR FATHERS-SOLDIERS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR by E. S. Lyubomirova

“…The article is devoted to the new aspects in the study of the history of post-war Germany, revealed in the book written by Sabine Bode «Post-war children - born in the 1950s, and their fathers-soldiers». …”
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Hume's Second Thoughts About Belief by Michael Jacovides

“…In material in the appendix that he tells his reader to insert in Book 1, he explains his reasons: the vivacity connected to belief is different in kind from that from the vivacity connected to poetry. …”
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Antiféminisme sur papier glacé by Auréline Cardoso

“…With his book The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy published in 1991, economist Albert O. …”
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Chronique d’un scandale by David M. Halperin

“…In this text, the first chapter of How To Be Gay (a French translation of the entire book by Marie Ymonet will be published by EPEL in late 2014), David Halperin revisits the stir that his college class, “How To Be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation,” caused in the early 2000s in the United States and elsewhere. …”
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Ewald Banse : orientaliste et « géographe de l’âme » by Catherine Repussard

“…Geographers and orientalists strove to map out the ‘geography of the Persian soul’ alongside the ‘geography of the German soul’. Here the book Morgenland und Abendland. Landschaft Rasse Kultur zweier Welten (1926), by the atypical geographer and great popularizer of science Ewald Banse (1883-1953), is more specifically addressed. …”
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Auteur collectif ou exégète singulier ? Abélard et la Bible by Cédric Giraud

“…Abelard distinguished himself as an innovative young teacher when he decided to explain the book of Ezekiel independently, rather than following the traditional approach of his master Anselm of Laon. …”
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Gestes et images du voyage en Orient by Monique Sicard

“…These large negatives, that result in a symbolic and effective link with the book, are not to be confused with the use of photo-cards that later led Flaubert to reject photographic objects. …”
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Lexical influences on predictive mouse cursor movements by Anuenue Kukona

“…., “What the librarian will read, which is shown here, is the…”) and viewed visual arrays with predictable targets (e.g., book) and phonological competitors (e.g., bull) or unrelated distractors (e.g., goat). …”
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Den gode fiende, eller den gode pasient? by Thomas Hauge

“…The article draws on data collected in my master thesis and examines them in light of Nils Christie and Kettil Bruun’s book, Den gode fiende (Suitable Enemies) which focuses on role of the police in the war on drugs. …”
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Rule Britannia, Brexit and Cornish Identity by Ella Westland

“…The decision to take Britain into the European Common Market and the rise of Celtic nationalism had a clear bearing on the book. So too did Daphne’s move from Menabilly to Kilmarth, her personal relationship to Cornish people, and her continuing need for Cornwall as she faced her retirement from writing fiction.…”
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“Vó, a senhora é lésbica?” Pergunta à queima-roupa e respostas para a constituição de uma utopia by João Barreto da Fonseca, Renata Barreto da Fonseca

“…What is it like to be a lesbian? The book Amora, by Natalia Borges Polesso (2018), although it circulates the subject, avoids a direct answer, but presents some affections densities and modulations of secret love, which are clues to the invisibility of lesbian affection. …”
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“Introduction to Metaphysics” A Critical Analysis to the Persian Translation by Mohammad Javad Safian

“…This essay presents a summary of the book, followed by a study of the mentioned terms and equivalents, typos, and grammatical errors. …”
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Block cipher mode research based on identifier of text files by Tong-ming ZHANG, Jian-feng GUAN

“…The electronic code book(ECB)mode cannot conceal the data model of the plaintext and has only one private key to the whole plaintext.A block cipher mode based on identity for text files was proposed，which ab-sorbed the advantages of block cipher mode and the feature of plaintext string.A double Hash mapping structure was designed and one layer of the mapping structure maps the plaintext into discontinuous groups,another one which was based on the concept of identify library produced corresponding private key to the plaintext group.The model overcame the discontinuous group and single private key problem and effectively improved the security of the cipher text.The experiment results show that the new model has better security,flexibility and extensibility.…”
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Mircea Popescu şi corespondenţii săi: Ştefan Baciu, N. P. Comnen, Neagu Djuvara, Mircea Eliade, Vintilă Horia, Virgil Ierunca, Petru Iroaie, Alexandrina Mititelu by Mihaela Albu

“…Simona Coleş-Popescu, we’ll include some unpublished letters sent by his friends and Romanian writers in a book dedicated to Mircea Popescu’s literary activity. …”
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Quand la liberté de lire est menacée : la lutte de la Campaign for Reader Privacy contre l’article 215 de la loi USA PATRIOT. by Cécile Cottenet

“…One of these movements, led by actors of the book industry—booksellers, librarians, publishers, writers—rapidly saw the danger of an act that authorizes the government to intrude into private lives. …”
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Dangerous Conversations in The Duchess of Malfi by John Gillies

“…It is clear that Webster borrowed from The Civil Conversation (1586), as Steffano Guazzo’s book was known in English translation. As in Guazzo, honest conversation, in Webster's play, has a civil rather than courtly character, and as such the conversation theme corresponds with an antithesis that has been noted by John L. …”
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