Possibilism: An Approach to Problem‐Solving Derived from the Life and Work of Albert O. Hirschman. Development and Change, 39(3), pp.437-459.Lepenies, Philipp H., 2008, "Possibilism: An Approach to Problem-Solving Derived from the Life and Work of Albert O. Hirschman," Development and...
Elsewhere in the social sciences, determinism was for a time replaced by the opposed doctrine of possibilism, prefigured in the work of late nineteenth and early twentieth century French regional geographers led by Paul Vidal de la Blache and influentially expounded in the 1920s by the historian...
For example, the fictional Sherlock Holmes may have found a footprint at the scene of the crime and identified the size and type of shoe with complete certainty, thereby completely ruling out or implicating a particular candidate suspect. In reality, of course, data have only probabilistic ...
To ensure flexibility for customer applications, the optimized I/O interface offers 3 configurable measure- ment profiles that can for example be set up for a near, medium and far range. Numerous diagnosis possibilit- ies, such as monitoring the supply v...
of possibilism (→3.5), the existential quantifier is ill-suited to do that job.All this is unsurprising.The ability to intend, just like anyother ability,willhave to be analyzed in terms of the success view,ofcourse.It will beamatterof proportions among properlyrestricted situations.Does ...
Thus, knowledge can function as a political instrument, for example when claims to absolute truth are instrumentalised in order to subdue social groups and entire cultures by installing supremacy over specific “kinds of knowledge such as know-how, indigenous knowledge, local knowledge, oral ...
“why do you think acupuncturists defend acupuncture,” that is a clear example of an ad hominem argument, pointing to the motives of the speaker rather than addressing the content of their argument and is considered irrational. Speculation about whether or not you are “on the margins of ...
indicators BS 14 in preparation for timing a new boxing contest, it will first be assumed that a previous contest has been ended before the completion of a round so that the indicators 14 are at some point between the 0 and 3 graduations, for example, just slightly beyond the two minute...
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a view like deductivism, formalism, or fictionalism that takes mathematics not to have an ontology). If one takes possible objects (in particular, possible mental constructions) to be real things, then presumably (unless one is a Lewisian about the metaphysical nature of possibilia) one is go...