…appear to be fundamentally mental and fundamentally physical kinds, making this position a form of dualism, albeit one that departs radically from other Indian theories in rejecting the idea of an enduring soul. The classical Indian dualist theories retain varying degrees of infl…
…e is important because patterns of landscape elements (e.g., arrangement and composition of land uses or ecosystem types) interact with processes (e.g., nutrient cycling, hydrologic flow, or social information exchange) (Fig. 2.) to influence the dynamics and outcomes of social a…
…ons (or fault lines). This includes whether order is thin or thick, premised on position or principles, regional or global in scope, and issue specific or multi-issue in nature. When it comes to how orders emerge, the majority of existing explanations can be categorized according…
…are like necessary truths in “being extremely resilient under counterfactual suppositions: for the most part, however differently things might have gone, we tend to assume that laws of nature would still have held.” Yet, Roberts continues, laws are also like contingent truths in t…
….1-2 and references cited there). This paper provides further evidence for this position, but the focus is on a second implication of the theory: the existence of constraints on contrasts. Constraints favouring distinct contrasts are constraints on the differences between forms r…
…e, an emerging literature turns to actors’ speeches to better capture expressed positions and to measure polarization of these positions (Lauderdale and 3 Clark, 2014; Kim, Londregan and Ratkovic, 2017). The employment of text data for the measure- ment of state preferences in wo…
…o contextualise the history of this project and, by so doing, comment on my own position as a researcher. As an upper-middle class Singaporean male with a Catholic upbringing, I am trained as an English Language and Literature teacher 14 who then specialised with a Master’s degre…
…discourse analysis. The analysis revealed that CU was debated in terms of two oppositional themes. The first theme debated whether CU protects universal rights or introduces special rights, which are either not deserved or create inequality. The second theme approached the CU law…
…pendent on a shrinking white vote.40 Reinhard drew together the three themes to position Rubio as a racial/ethnic outsider who could diversify the Republican Party and bring electoral change. Similarly, Michael Grun- wald dubbed Rubio “The Republican Savior” and “the great Hispan…
…that God must always act in strict accordance with the law of karma. While this position does seem to absolve God of partiality and cruelty, it arguably runs the risk of curtailing God’s omnipotence (Matilal, Reference Matilal 1992 : 368–369). On the other hand, the devotional sc…
…xt of an organizational shock lead to changes in whole network structure and composition, thus enabling or constraining future individual networking opportunities. Our results also offer practical implications. For example, leaders in a merger context should facilitate the growth…
…This thorough engagement with Rome’s first “national” poet shows that Ennius’ compositions provided more than engaging accounts of classical mythology and vivid narrations of historical events on which to hinge Roman identity. Rather, the cosmology of his poetry could count as rel…
…fic “Appeals to the Living,” the documents from Deir el- features concerning the position of women within Medina, and, above all, the letters to the dead—were Egyptian ancestor worship. In Egypt, the veneration indeed expressions of elite culture. A second of the dead was strongly…
…e relation to itself. Be that as it may, there are two central claims to Blocks position, that we here will take to encapsulate Block’s theory regardless of what monikers are ascribed to it. The first is what we will term the A-P distinction. The A-P distinction distinguishes bet…
…c concern, are relevant to an understanding of what compassion is, given the supposition that emotional traits share core appraisals and action tendencies with the associated emotional state. Numerous studies of compassion, which we consider here, have examined trait-like tendenc…