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Inquiry beyond knowledge

Bob Beddor

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research > 109 > 1 > 330 - 356

Why engage in inquiry? According to many philosophers, the goal of inquiring into some question is to come to know its answer. While this view holds considerable appeal, this paper argues that it stands in tension with another highly attractive thesis: knowledge does not require absolute certainty. Forced to choose between these two theses, I argue that we should reject the idea that inquiry aims...

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Knowledge and (un)certainty in climate change education in India

Steve Puttick, Paloma Chandrachud, Rahul Chopra, Radhika Khosla, more

British Educational Research Journal > 50 > 2 > 794 - 813

This paper explores teachers' conceptions of climate change knowledge, contributing to the growing body of work on the geographies of climate change. The paper focuses on the data generated through in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with a sample of 48 teachers in India to address the research question: What discourses about climate change knowledge are being constructed by teachers in India? We...

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Scenario planning as a new application area for TOPSIS

Helena Gaspars-Wieloch

Operations Research and Decisions > 2023 > 33 > 2

TOPSIS is a well-known approach applied to multi-criteria decision-making under certainty (M-DMC). However, recently, some analogies between this domain and scenario-based one-criterion decision-making under uncertainty (1-DMU) have been revealed in the literature. Thus, the similarities aforementioned give the possibility to adjust TOPSIS to another area. The goal of the paper is to create a new...

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Scenario planning as a new application area for TOPSIS

Helena Gaspars-Wieloch

Operations Research and Decisions > 2023 > Vol. 33, No. 2 > 23--34

TOPSIS is a well-known approach applied to multi-criteria decision-making under certainty (M-DMC). However, recently, some analogies between this domain and scenario-based one-criterion decision-making under uncertainty (1-DMU) have been revealed in the literature. Thus, the similarities aforementioned give the possibility to adjust TOPSIS to another area. The goal of the paper is to create a new...

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Validity, reliability and certainty of PERSIANN and TRMM satellite-derived daily precipitation data in arid and semiarid climates

Keyvan Khojand, Mahmood Reza Shaghaghian, Zahra Ghadampour, Touraj Sabzevari

Acta Geophysica > 2022 > Vol. 70, no 4 > 1745--1767

Having doubts about the adequacy of reliability level of satellite-derived precipitation products, along with their application in large number of hydrological models, has led to many studies on evaluating the efficiency of such data. In this study, two new procedures were proposed to compute reliability and certainty degrees of PERSIANN and TRMM 3B42RT data sets, and six traditional indicators were...

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Why illusionism about consciousness is unbelievable

Christopher Devlin Brown

Ratio > 35 > 1 > 16 - 24

Many philosophers identify knowledge of subjective experience as our sole epistemic bedrock of absolute certainty. Illusionism is the view that subjective experience does not exist, and that our belief in the existence of subjective experience is due to a persistent cognitive or meta‐cognitive illusion of some sort. I argue that illusionism entails an absurd epistemic consequence: that our current...

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Od nieomylności matematyki do niepewności praktyki. Sceptycyzm i jego przezwyciężenie w filozofii Blaise’a Pascala

Tomasz Detlaf

Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria > 2022 > 1 > 27-47

Celem artykułu jest pokazanie, że filozofię Blaise’a Pascala można odczytać w taki sposób, że sceptycyzm zostaje w niej przezwyciężony nie za pomocą nadprzyrodzonej intuicji, ale za pomocą rozumowania o charakterze pragmatycznym. W tym celu zostają kolejno przedstawione: (1) metoda geometryczna jako najlepsza dostępna metoda uzasadniania twierdzeń, (2) cechy, które sprawiają, że ludzki rozum jest...

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Reflections about Newman and Wittgenstein on Knowledge, Certainty and Language

Paul McHugh

New Blackfriars > 102 > 1102 > 932 - 949

In breaking out from the analytic paradigm of certainty, St John Henry Newman is credited with keeping channels open for new streams of thought to irrigate philosophy in the century after his. Contemporary commentators sometimes see themes in Newman that anticipate ones taken up by Wittgenstein after him. This paper explores some simple convergences and divergences between Newman's and Wittgenstein's...

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On some analogies between one-criterion decision making under uncertainty and multi-criteria decision making under certainty

Helena Gaspars-Wieloch

Economics and Business Review > 2021 > 7 > 2 > 17-36

One-criterion decision making under uncertainty (1-DM/U) is related to situations in which the decision maker (DM) evaluates the alternatives on the basis of one objective, but e.g. due to numerous uncertain future factors some parameters of the problem are not deterministic. Instead of entirely known paramaters, a set of possible scenarios is available. Multi-criteria decision making under certainty...

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How certain can we really be that our boss is trustworthy, and does it matter? A metacognitive perspective on employee evaluations of supervisor trustworthiness

Brian C. Holtz, David De Cremer, Biyun Hu, Joseph Kim, more

Journal of Organizational Behavior > 41 > 7 > 587 - 605

This research helps to integrate the metacognitive concept of evaluation certainty into the trust literature by demonstrating that certainty can amplify the effects of trustworthiness evaluations and stabilize trustworthiness evaluations over time. Across an experimental study (Study 1) and a multiwave survey of employees (Study 2), we show that trustworthiness evaluations exert a stronger influence...

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The Accusative Case as a Marker of Certainty of an Object with a Transitive Verb with Negation (Using Examples of Kinship Terms)

V. P. Fesenko

Automatic Documentation and Mathematical Linguistics > 2019 > 53 > 4 > 189-202

This article considers the problem of choosing the genitive or accusative case of an object with a transitive verb under negation in the diachronic aspect from the 18th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The purpose of the study is to determine in which period and to what extent the choice of the case was influenced by the object’s certainty factor. The material is the examples from the...

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Autism as a Form of Life: Wittgenstein and the Psychological Coherence of Autism

Robert Chapman

Metaphilosophy > 50 > 4 > 421 - 440

Autism is often taken to be a specific kind of mind. The dominant neuro‐cognitivist approach explains this via static processing traits framed in terms of hyper‐systemising and hypo‐empathising. By contrast, Wittgenstein‐inspired commentators argue that the coherence of autism arises relationally, from intersubjective disruption that hinders access to a shared world of linguistic meaning. This paper...

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Trait aggressiveness predicting aggressive behavior: The moderating role of meta‐cognitive certainty

David Santos, Pablo Briñol, Richard E. Petty, Beatriz Gandarillas, more

Aggressive Behavior > 45 > 3 > 255 - 264

Research on aggression has benefitted from using individual‐difference measures to predict aggressive behavior. Research on meta‐cognition has recently identified that the predictive utility of individual‐difference inventories can be improved by considering the certainty with which people hold their self‐views. Merging these two frameworks, the present research examines whether assessing certainty...

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Mental Effort, Workload, Time on Task, and Certainty: Beyond Linear Models

Jimmie Leppink, Patricia Pérez-Fuster

Educational Psychology Review > 2019 > 31 > 2 > 421-438

Self-rated mental effort has been and continues to be the most widely used measure of cognitive load. This single-item measure is often used as a predictor variable in linear models for predicting performance or some other response variable. While an advantage of linear models is that they are fairly easy to understand, they fall short when the relations between variables of interest are clearly non-linear...

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Uwagi Wittgensteina O pewności a teoria kolektywów myślowych i stylów myślowych Flecka

Wojciech Sady

Filozofia Nauki > 2019 > 27 > 3(107) > 87-102

explaining anything: he is merely describing the ways of using words and sentences, thus trying to make philosophical problems disappear. In fact, however, he proposes a theory of the nature of language games and their functions, even though — because of the above declaration — he expresses it in a fragmentary and unclear way. After 1946, his views underwent significant transformations: he abandoned...

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Knowledge of Language and a Radical Scepticism

Čanal, Tomáš

Filozofia i Nauka > 2019 > 7

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Knowledge of Language and a Radical Scepticism

Tomáš Čanal

Filozofia i nauka. Studia filozoficzne i interdyscyplinarne > 2019 > 7/2 > 265-281

According to Descartes, it is possible to doubt successfully that there is external world, all around us, yet still to have language, in place, without any complication. According to Wittgenstein, to doubt everything about the external world except language means nothing more than to doubt everything about the external world including language. Why? No speaker is more certain about the meaning of...

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Knowledge of Language and a Radical Scepticism

Tomáš Čanal

Filozofia i Nauka > 2019 > 7 > 2 > 265-282

According to Descartes, it is possible to doubt successfully that there is external world, all around us, yet still to have language, in place, without any complication. According to Wittgenstein, to doubt everything about the external world except language means nothing more than to doubt everything about the external world including language. Why? No speaker is more certain about the meaning of...

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[Artykuł wycofany przez Redakcję] USE OF LEGAL PRINCIPLES WHICH DETERMINE FACTS OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Anna Kęskiewicz

International Journal of Legal Studies (IJOLS) > IJOLS 2018 > 4(2) > 411-422

Application of legal principles in determining the factual state in court proceedings. The first part generally consists of legal certainty that has been understood in various ways. In addition, focusing on different rules of law - where you can find important regulations, along with the information that this problem has many aspects. The analysis is not outside a decision based on a national law...

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Teaching Children to Ignore Alternatives is—Sometimes—Necessary: Indoctrination as a Dispensable Term

José María Ariso

Studies in Philosophy and Education > 2019 > 38 > 4 > 397-410

Literature on indoctrination has focused on imparting and revising beliefs, but it has hardly considered the way of teaching and acquiring certainties—in Wittgenstein’s sense. Therefore, the role played by rationality in the acquisition of our linguistic practices has been overestimated. Furthermore, analyses of the relationship between certainty and indoctrination contain major errors. In this paper,...

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Inquiry beyond knowledge

Knowledge and (un)certainty in climate change education in India

Scenario planning as a new application area for TOPSIS

Scenario planning as a new application area for TOPSIS

Validity, reliability and certainty of PERSIANN and TRMM satellite-derived daily precipitation data in arid and semiarid climates

Why illusionism about consciousness is unbelievable

Od nieomylności matematyki do niepewności praktyki. Sceptycyzm i jego przezwyciężenie w filozofii Blaise’a Pascala

Reflections about Newman and Wittgenstein on Knowledge, Certainty and Language

On some analogies between one-criterion decision making under uncertainty and multi-criteria decision making under certainty

How certain can we really be that our boss is trustworthy, and does it matter? A metacognitive perspective on employee evaluations of supervisor trustworthiness

The Accusative Case as a Marker of Certainty of an Object with a Transitive Verb with Negation (Using Examples of Kinship Terms)

Autism as a Form of Life: Wittgenstein and the Psychological Coherence of Autism

Trait aggressiveness predicting aggressive behavior: The moderating role of meta‐cognitive certainty

Mental Effort, Workload, Time on Task, and Certainty: Beyond Linear Models

Uwagi Wittgensteina O pewności a teoria kolektywów myślowych i stylów myślowych Flecka

Knowledge of Language and a Radical Scepticism

Knowledge of Language and a Radical Scepticism

Knowledge of Language and a Radical Scepticism

[Artykuł wycofany przez Redakcję] USE OF LEGAL PRINCIPLES WHICH DETERMINE FACTS OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Teaching Children to Ignore Alternatives is—Sometimes—Necessary: Indoctrination as a Dispensable Term

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