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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Uniting micro- with macroevolution into an Extended Synthesis: Reintegrating life’s natural history into evolution studies.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that both cultures endorse radically different notions on time and explained how both perspectives can be unified by endorsing epistemic pluralism.
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Russellian acquaintance revisited
TL;DR: This article traced the development of Russell's conceptions of knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description as they unfold during the years 1900-1918, focusing on what Russell sees as being the philosophical significance of two distinctions he draws that involve the notion of (knowledge by) acquaintance.
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Mereology in Engineering and Computer Science
TL;DR: This chapter aims at presenting specimens of the role mereology plays in all of these areas of research, and strives to extract a skeleton of basic facts and exemplary applications in order to convey to the reader the elegance of solutions employing tools of mereology.
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From humanized mice to human disease: guiding extrapolation from model to target
TL;DR: It is argued that, unless three requirements are met in the process of humanizing mice, very little does in the way of extrapolation, and these requirements serve as a heuristic for guiding scientific judgments involving extrapolation.
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Against the Russellian open future
Anders J. Schoubye,Brian Rabern +1 more
TL;DR: The authors show that the standard arguments for Russell's treatment of definite descriptions fail to apply to statements of the form ‘will(f)’, and they argue that the quasi-Russellian analysis makes the wrong predictions about the meaning of sentences.