Human rights and the problem of ethnocentrism by Etinson, A

“…This claim is defended at length against the version of political constructivism advanced by John Rawls, which, by grounding political argument exclusively in ideas and values embedded in a common public culture, implicitly justifies a form of ethnocentrism (Chapter Two). …”

Implied constitutional principles by Zhou, H

“…The argument faces two main interrelated legal objections: Parliamentary sovereignty and the Framers’ intentions. …”

Acquired ingenuity: the conflation of prudence with 'ingenio' in the works of Baltasar Gracián by Beattie, R

“…The critical stance of this thesis is that Gracián’s works are optimistic and religiously orthodox, and the argument of this thesis is that Gracián displays his Optimism and religious orthodoxy through his conceptualisation of the cardinal virtue of prudence as a form of ingenio; that is, a form of practical reason which can be honed through conscious and rational deliberation and practice, but which reaches its perfection when implemented instinctively, intuitively, and spontaneously. …”

Towards a theory of adjudication: some issues of method and principle by Brady, P

“…<p>A sound theory of adjudication and of judicial duty requires or presupposes a sound theory of law and of legal argument. Jurisprudential inquiry is properly grounded not in reflections on conceptual properties of law but in reflections on human goods and needs as understood in a morally articulated theory of practical reason and compactly expressed in the normative concept of the common good. …”

Situating risk in young people's social and moral relationships: Young Lives research in Peru by Crivello, G, Boyden, J

“…<p>This paper examines how poverty is involved in a multitude of risks in children’s lives using data gathered from children in Peru between 2002 and 2006. Three main arguments emerge. The first is that risk is not simply a feature of ‘extraordinary’ childhood circumstances. …”

Towards a historical geography of girlhood by Krishnan, S

“…This paper makes an argument for a geography of girlhood, located at the intersection of historical geographies of globalisation and empire on the one hand, and feminist interventions in the geography of childhood and youth on the other. …”

A grammar of Hyow by Muhammad Zakaria

“…Other than the morphosyntactic coding of core arguments, markings of oblique arguments have also been made in this chapter. …”
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The Emptiness and Complementation Problems for Automata on Infinite Trees by Rackoff, Charles Weill

“…We present a new decision procedure which is much simpler than Rabin's since we do not use an induction argument as he does.…”
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Typechecking is Undecidable when 'Type' is a Type by Reinhold, Mark B.

“…A function has a dependent type when the type of its result depends upon the value of its argument. The type of all types is the type of every type, including itself. …”
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PSEG: Standardization of Data by Bowring, Jim

“…PSEG is a function of one argument--a region name which comes from REGIONLIST, as created by TOPOLOGIST. …”
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Processing the third-person perception through the heuristic-systematic model. by Chan, Erwin Guorong., Lau, Stella Su Lin., Lim, Hwee Seah.

“…Examination of how media intent and perceived argument quality of a message moderated the magnitude of the third-person perception when people engage in heuristic and systematic processing.…”
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Risk seeking and overconfidence level of Chinese Singaporeans in the individual collective dimension. by Cheong, Joel., Tan, Shu Hui., Teo, Siok Hui.

“…This research aims to assess (1) Chinese Singaporeans' risk seeking preference and overconfidence level, whether they are more in sync with an individualistic or collectivist society, (2) the presence of any cushion effect in the Chinese Singaporeans collectivist family, (3) the validity of the "argument recruitment model" with respect to Chinese Singaporeans in the general knowledge test.…”
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The right of conversion and its effect in relation to human rights: a case study of Malaysia and Indonesia by Mohd Zin, Najibah

“…This project discusses one aspect of religious freedom that is to answer the controversial legal argument of whether there is such right to convert to other faith in Islam from human rights perspectives and the Islamic human rights.…”
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Northern exposure by Connock, A

“…Who's right - and who's going to win the argument?…”

Financial Globalisation, Exchange Rates and Capital Controls in Developing Countries. by Joshi, V

“…The paper uses India as a case-study to illustrate its argument.…”

Unity and objectivity in Strawson and Cassam by Gomes, A

“…I consider the objection that Cassam raises to Strawson's argument from unity to objectivity in The Bounds of Sense and raise some general questions about Cassam's problem of misconception and its application to transcendental arguments.…”

Calculus of variations in the mixed smoothness setting by Prosinski, A

“…The crucial difference that separates the following from the existing body of work is that the functionals we consider here depend on the argument function through a mixture of derivatives of different orders in different directions.…”

Chronic breathlessness: re-thinking the symptom by Faull, O, Marlow, L, Finnegan, S, Pattinson, K

“…Here, we speculate that the argument over chronic breathlessness being considered as either a symptom or syndrome both holds us within a reductionist framework, and somewhat misses the point.…”

Loss of bargain damages by Peel, WE

“…In particular, it considers the extent to which such damages are, and should be, available for “breach of condition”. The central argument is that, in such cases, they are based on the agreement of the parties and, provided such agreement is clearly established, it should be enforced by the courts.…”

Effective altruism and requiring reasons to help others by Sinclair, T

“…Through an exploration of the framework of requiring reasons and permitting reasons that is the backbone of his argument, this article raises some doubts about how successful Pummer's strategy of avoidance can be.…”