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The article was published on 2013-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3599 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Encyclopedia.

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Persistence through function preservation

TL;DR: This work provides a range of empirical evidence which suggests that the folk operate with a teleological view of persistence: the folk tend to intuit that a material object survives alterations when its function is preserved.
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Hume, Mill, Hill, and the Sui Generis Epidemiologic Approach to Causal Inference

TL;DR: Hill's viewpoints may be philosophically novel, sui generis, still waiting to be validated and justified, because the epidemiologic literature is clueless about a plausible, pre-1965 philosophical origin of Hill's viewpoints.
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Naturalizing Institutions: Evolutionary Principles and Application on the Case of Money

TL;DR: This paper introduced a general framework for the analysis of institutions, which synthesizes Searle's and Aoki's theories, especially with regard to the role of public representations (signs) in the coordination of actions, and the function of cognitive processes that underly rule-following as a behavioral disposition.
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Negotiating cultural ambiguity: the role of markets and consumption in multiracial identity development

TL;DR: This paper examined the lived experience of multiracial (black and white) women and found that consumers engage with the marketplace to assuage racial discordance and legitimize the liminal space they occupy.
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Natural language of uncertainty

TL;DR: An important part of processing elicited numerical inputs is an ability to quantitatively decode natural-language words that are commonly used to express or modify numerical values, known as approximators or numerical hedges, which are linguistic hedges such as "about" or "more than", with a number.