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  • And is it a cognitive pattern of reinforcement, codified or codifiable (and therefore potentially correctable), or is its development much more erratic and unknowable than that?

    Distortion Theory « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • In the Confucian tradition, it is the well-known principle of "non-universalism" -- that truth is grounded in concrete conditions and is not universally applicable or codifiable into an ideology.

    Nathan Gardels: Tom Plate's Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew : Some Wise Words for Dysfunctional Western Democracies 2010

  • But those energies were moments, not codifiable, not certifiable, not able to be fixed: you may be seduced into thinking my celebration is for you.

    Art has a shape. Victoria Janssen 2010

  • At bottom, I think many philosophers of science have drawn their own conclusions about both falsifiability and confirmation theory: there is no recipe for measuring the empirical credibility of a given scientific theory, and there is no codifiable "inductive logic" that might replace the forms of empirical reasoning that we find throughout the history of science.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • At bottom, I think many philosophers of science have drawn their own conclusions about both falsifiability and confirmation theory: there is no recipe for measuring the empirical credibility of a given scientific theory, and there is no codifiable "inductive logic" that might replace the forms of empirical reasoning that we find throughout the history of science.

    Revisiting Popper Daniel Little 2009

  • What has been reached in our age is the idea of ethics not as an intrinsic and understood and codifiable aspect of human behavior, but rather as one of many highly technical side concerns.

    Right And Wrong In Washington 2008

  • For instance, since a prominent position about moral reasoning is that the relevant considerations are not codifiable, we would beg a central question if we here defined

    Moral Reasoning Richardson, Henry S. 2007

  • However, it seems clear that some paradigmatic logical expressions have extra sense attached to them that is not codifiable purely inferentially.

    Logical Truth Gómez-Torrente, Mario 2006

  • But so long as people interpret the same thing different, say the “bunny in the clouds” of observations, there will not be a “truth” that is at the least codifiable.

    ID = Postmodern Creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • But so long as people interpret the same thing different, say the “bunny in the clouds” of observations, there will not be a “truth” that is at the least codifiable.

    ID = Postmodern Creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2005

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