This paper discusses an important puzzle about the semantics of indicative conditionals and deontic necessity modals (should, ought, etc.): the Miner Puzzle (Parfit, ms; Kolodny and MacFarlane, J Philos 107:115–143, 2010). Rejecting modus ponens for the indicative conditional, as others have proposed, seems to solve a version of the puzzle, but is actually orthogonal to the puzzle itself. In fa...

objective: this study aimed to provide a normative study documenting how 114 five-seven year-old non-‎patient iranian children respond to the rorschach test. we compared this especial sample to ‎international normative reference values for the comprehensive system (cs).‎ method: one hundred fourteen 5- 7- year-old non-patient iranian children were recruited from public ‎schools. using five chil...

the purpose of this paper is to study the impact of using the internet on the normative, relativistic and cosmopolitan attitudes of the students of tabriz university. the writers have used the survey method in their study and obtained the data of their research through a questionnaire. the statistical sample consists of 283 graduate and doctoral students of tabriz university. the findings of th...

The crisis of the euro area has severely tested the political authority of the European Union (EU). The crisis raises questions of normative legitimacy both because the EU is a normative order and because the construction of economic and monetary union (EMU) rested upon a theory that stressed the normative value of the depoliticization of money. However, this theory neglected the normative logi...

the main purpose of this research is to develop an islamic social education curriculum model for secondary schools. reaching to this purpose we used the normative method and deduction. investigating the ratio of practicable usage of normative methodology concepts with current subject orientation curriculum, appeared the necessity of change in current value based orientations in social education...

background and purpose: personal identity is the sense of being distinct from other individuals, which is of paramount importance during adolescence. modern theories suggest that young adults perceive personal identity in different ways, and several factors affect this phenomenon. leisure time activities are a significant element during adolescence. this study aimed to evaluate the relationship...

Elastography: Measurement Repeatability and Normative Value Yohei Yamamoto, Satoshi Yamaguchi, MD, PhD, Takahisa Sasho, MD, PhD, Taisuke Fukawa, Yuta Muramatsu, Shunsuke Mukoyama, Yorikazu Akatsu, Jo Katsuragi, Jun Endo, Hiroko Hoshi, Kenji Takahashi, Kazuhisa Takahashi. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, Fu...

A.N. Prior’s (1960) famous counterexamples to ethical autonomy involve cases where nonnormative premises entail a normative conclusion. Consider, for example, a normative claim N and a non-normative claim M. If N v M is non-normative, then the non-normative ~M & (N v M) entails the normative N. If the disjunction is normative, then it is entailed by the non-normative M. The entailments are impe...