El teólogo enmascarado (Teólogos y sectarios en Ficciones y El Aleph) by Mercedes Blanco

“…The paper shows first that the skeptical theory of historical relativity of thought leads paradoxically to erase the boundary between philosophy and theology, identifying opinion and belief, and on the other hand, philosophical school and sect or heresy. …”
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Exile, Cosmopolitanism and the Diasporic Intellectual: by Fakrul Alam

“… This paper is an attempt to study Said’s career as literary critic and theorist stimulated by creativity by not being “quite right” and inspirational because “out of place” It will range throughout his works, taking in everything-from his first work, Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Autobiography (1967) to his posthumously published final books, Humanism and Democratic Criticism (2005) and On Late Style (2006) to demonstrate how he has made out of his uprooted condition and diasporic imaginings a contrapuntal mode of criticism, a skeptical engagement with the western world, and a constant, restless quest for the right to be engaged with the world because he finds it out of place and because he would like to intervene in it to draw attention to at least some of the places where he finds it is askew if only to change it. …”
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En defensa de una concepción alternativa de la interpretación jurídica by Patricia Cuenca Gómez

“…RESUMEN El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar críticamente las concepciones de la interpretación jurídica – cognitiva, escéptica, e intermedia –  que vienen copando la discusión en torno a esta cuestión en el ámbito de la Teoría del Derecho y presentar los rasgos básicos de una comprensión de la tarea interpretativa, en cierto sentido alternativa a las anteriores teorías estándar, que ofrece una mejor explicación de sus aspectos centrales   ABSTRACT This work looks critically into three conceptions of legal interpretation - cognitive, skeptical, and intermediate- that come monopolizing the discussion on this issue in the field of Law Theory. …”
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ASPIRAŢII ŞI CONSECINŢE – ASPECTE ALE PERIOADEI POSTBELICE by USM ADMIN

“…Suddenly she feels lonely among her nearest and dearest, as the villagers started to look at her skeptically. The dramatic situation gets worse, when Gheorghe, a boy from the village loved a lot by Rusanda, starts to ignore her, as he thinks becoming a teacher, Rusanda will give up some common human values. …”
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THE RATIONALIST CRITIQUE OF UTOPIAN THINKING: ISLAND OF FOOLS AND OTHER ANTI-UTOPIAN CLASSICS by Corin Braga

“…In turn, humanist counter-utopists, skeptical regarding man’s capacity of establishing a perfect society, found other means of expressing their incredulity as well as their sarcasms. …”
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Les révoltes au pays de la révolution by Kamel Chachoua

“…Much of the Algerian intelligentsia in general and social scientists in particular were critical or, at the very least skeptical about the “Arab revolts” as spring 2011. …”
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Las memorias de Mario Onaindia: geminación e iluminaciones by Miguel Olmos

“…The author's active search is guided by a disbelieving or skeptical attitude, whose questions may appear dramatized through duplicated textual structures. …”
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US, China and Southeast Asia : strategic impacts of US counterterrorism policy in Southeast Asia. by Clint Lorimore.

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Mechanics of artificial heart valves by Yeo, Tony Joon Hock.

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Evaluating the economic impacts of hosting the Olympic Games: Why are more cities in emerging markets increasingly bidding and winning the right to host? by Kavuma, Eden

“…City and State officials claim that hosting the Olympics can deliver both short and long-term economic impacts for the city and country at large, but economist remain skeptical of the event's large upfront costs and an overestimation of the projected economic impacts. …”
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Lebenskraft (vital force) by Raisbeck, J

“…While at times he understood Lebenskraft as an organizing principle to explain processes of generation, he was generally skeptical toward the concept, which in his view compromised scientific argumentation and limited knowledge production. …”

Space and place by Trifogli, C

“…In the fourteenth century, the dominant attitude to the question of the immobility of Aristotelian place is a skeptical one. By that time, philosophers have come to acknowledge that the ontological status of Aristotelian place cannot be reconciled with the requirement of its immobility.…”

Joint Storage: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Consumer Perspectives on Community Energy Storage in Germany by Esther Hoffmann, Franziska Mohaupt

“…They assume that CES is more resource- and cost-efficient than residential storage and appreciate the idea of professionally managed operation and maintenance, but are skeptical of whether fair and transparent distribution and billing can be realized. …”
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The Fragile Coalition and Political Competition UAE and Saudi Arabia in Yemen (2015-2020) by Mehdi Hedayati Shahidani, Mohammad Reza Babaie

“…The hypothesis is that the two actors' different perceptions of the common enemy component and their skeptical attitude about the desired results are the main factors in the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and UAE in Yemen. …”
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An experimental analysis on the similarity of argumentation semantics by Federico Cerutti, Matthias Thimm, Mauro Vallati

“…While it is clear from theoretical results that reasoning with grounded semantics is different from, for example, skeptical reasoning with preferred semantics, we investigate how significant this difference is in actual argumentation frameworks. …”
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Scratching the structure of moral agency: insights from philosophy applied to neuroscience by Francisco Javier Castro-Toledo, Francisco Javier Castro-Toledo, Francisco Javier Castro-Toledo, Pablo Cerezo, Ana Belén Gómez-Bellvís

“…This has led to tensions between those who believe neuroscience can provide definitive answers to very complex philosophical questions and those who are skeptical about the scope of these studies. However, the paper argues that neuroscientists and philosophers can work together to generate major scientific and social advances. …”
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Anorectal malformations: history and current management by Baeza Herrera Carlos, Alarcón Quezada Victor, Nájera Garduño Heladio Marino

“…Finally, we point out the vicissitudes and the clinical investigations of Peña, the transcendental impact of his concepts on a skeptical and hostile surgical guild, his labor emigration to the U.S. hospitals and his growing reputation which accounts for his outstanding position.…”
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PECULIARITIES OF SOCIAL REPRESENTATION OF FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERTISE by MELENTIEVA Aliona

“…The “status” of forensic psychological expertise is undefined, mainly because of the lack of specialists, as well as because psychologists face negative and skeptical attitudes from legal workers. In this context, the purpose of this research is to reveal the social representations of forensic psychological expertise among specialists working in the legal field. …”
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A Holistic Quality Assurance Approach for Machine Learning Applications in Cyber-Physical Production Systems by Hajo Wiemer, Alexander Dementyev, Steffen Ihlenfeldt

“…Engineers usually do not have enough experience with data mining or machine learning techniques and are often skeptical about the world of artificial intelligence (AI). …”
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A Room with a View – The Protection of Social Rights in a European International and Supranational Perspective by Sara Cocchi

“…Through a review of the main challenges faced by such a debated category of entitlements in the European context, we will discuss the actual effectiveness of their protection and the potential risks implied in skeptical positions towards supranational commitments perceived as exceedingly pervasive. …”
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