background and aims: considering the fact that different components of linguistic knowledge are not equally vulnerable, this study investigated the knowledge of argument structure of verbs in a group of deaf persian speakers, as people who have been deprived of linguistic data during the early years of their childhood that is the critical period of language acquisition. methods: in this study, ...

in order to arrive at a better understanding of resurrecting individuals, one should consider theories of soul and, more specifically, that saying the sameness between soul and temperament. advocates of this theory assert that soul is the efficient cause for the appearance of biotic effects. they also maintain that this efficient cause (i.e. soul) is an accident called temperament and, hence, s...

The Supreme Court's use of empirical behavioral science data has grown dramatically in the 40 years since Brown v. Board of Education. Most of these data are submitted in amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs submitted by parties with an interest in the outcome of the significant mental health law cases coming before the court. The increasing use of such briefs raises important questions. ...

Observational studies suggest that children as young as 2 years can evaluate some of the arguments people offer them. However, experimental studies of sensitivity to different arguments have not yet targeted children younger than 5 years. The current study aimed at bridging this gap by testing the ability of preschoolers (3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds) to weight arguments. To do so, it focused on a c...

the school of tafkik rejects reason and philosophical arguments to understand religious propositions and religious beliefs. they hold that the philosophical approach to understand religion is inconsistent to revealed religion. thus, the only true way to understand religion is revealed one. the purpose of this paper is to examine the approach of the school of tafkik and its arguments. in this ar...