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Reductio ad absurdum from a dialogical perspective

TL;DR: In this paper, a dialogical conceptualization of deductive arguments is presented, according to which such arguments (especially mathematical proofs) are best understood as a dialogue between two (fictitious) participants.
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Why Self-enhancement Provokes Dislike: The Hubris Hypothesis and the Aversiveness of Explicit Self-superiority Claims

TL;DR: This paper found that participants evaluated explicit self-superiority claimants more unfavorably than implicit self superiority claimants, to the extent that participants inferred a negative view of others and hence of them (Experiment 2).
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Donkeys under discussion

TL;DR: It is argued that mixed readings of donkey sentences require neither plural information states, contra Brasoveanu 2008, 2010, nor error states, Contra Champollion 2016, nor singular donkey pronouns with plural referents, contra Krifka 1996, Yoon 1996.
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Avicenna among medieval jews the reception of avicenna's philosophical, scientific and medical writings in Jewish cultures, east and west

TL;DR: The authors presents a comprehensive picture of Avicenna's reception within medieval Jewish cultures in both Arabic and Hebrew, and tries to explain the Jews' complex attitude to the prophet's ideas.