Cheng Ho and the Beagle
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The power PC theory and causal powers: comment on Cheng (1997) and Novick and Cheng (2004).
It has been claimed that the power PC theory reconciles regularity and power theories of causal judgment by showing how contingency information is used for inferences about unobservable causal powers. Under the causal powers theory causal relations are understood as generative relations in which a causal power of one thing acts on a liability of another thing under some releasing condition. The...
متن کاملKen Cheng
Ken Cheng was born in Hong Kong. His family emigrated to Toronto, Canada while he was still young, and he attended high school in Toronto, and then the University of Toronto. He has a M.Ed. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA in 1984. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Sussex and at the University of Western Ontario before beco...
متن کاملThe meaning and computation of causal power: comment on Cheng (1997) and Novick and Cheng (2004).
D. Hume (1739/1987) argued that causality is not observable. P. W. Cheng (1997) claimed to present "a theoretical solution to the problem of causal induction first posed by Hume more than two and a half centuries ago" (p. 398) in the form of the power PC theory (L. R. Novick & P. W. Cheng, 2004). This theory claims that people's goal in causal induction is to estimate causal powers from observa...
متن کاملShwu-Yuan Wu and Cheng-
A tetracycline-regulated expression system is combined with the FLAG-epitope tagging method for conditional expression of potentially toxic proteins in mammalian cells. This strategy allows a controlled expression of exogenous gene products and also provides a unique way of protein purification. Two mammalian expression plasmids containing the FLAG sequence and flanking multiple cloning sites w...
متن کامل05 Cheng (JG/d)
A content analysis of 1387 commercials broadcast in China and Hong Kong in 1993 and 1998 was conducted using Cheng and Schweitzer’s framework of cultural values. The five cultural values that dominated Chinese television advertising were ‘modernity’, ‘family’, ‘tradition’, ‘technology’ and ‘collectivism’. The five dominant cultural values in Hong Kong television advertising were ‘quality’, ‘eff...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature Biotechnology
سال: 1986
ISSN: 1087-0156,1546-1696
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1086-831