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As a psychologist examining psychology of presidential ambition, what's running through my head is a series of clinical rule-out hypotheses: "ego," manic phase, narcissism, sublimated sociopathy, pathological approval-seeking.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychology of Presidential Ambition? 2010
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As a psychologist examining psychology of presidential ambition, what's running through my head is a series of clinical rule-out hypotheses: "ego," manic phase, narcissism, sublimated sociopathy, pathological approval-seeking.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychology of Presidential Ambition? 2010
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It is likely the disease has already spread internationally; even in the US, the CDC is watching "In New York City, health officials say about 75 students at a Queens high school have fallen ill with flu-like symptoms and testing is under way to rule-out swine flu."
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Fear, anger and fatalism over swine flu in Mexico 2009
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So, I thought that those factors should rule-out the necessity for these exams.
This is why they hold my BCP prescription hostage Amanda@Lady Scientist 2009
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So, I thought that those factors should rule-out the necessity for these exams.
Archive 2009-03-01 Amanda@Lady Scientist 2009
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It is likely the disease has already spread internationally; even in the US, the CDC is watching 'In New York City, health officials say about 75 students at a Queens high school have fallen ill with flu-like symptoms and testing is under way to rule-out swine flu.'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Fear, anger and fatalism over swine flu in Mexico 2009
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Do the emails between the Salahis and Jones give them enough to rule-out any prosecution for trespass?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges for the White House State Dinner Crashers? 2009
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However, their report notes that, “up to one-third of coded diagnoses may not be confirmed when initially coded because the diagnosis is ‘rule-out’ or provisional, pending further evaluation.”
Director's Blog » Blog Archive » The cost of the war: A comment on Stiglitz-Bilmes 2008
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I would have thought that this was important to rule-out any solar explanations for temperature cycles. bernie
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Indeed, this is, in effect, the line taken by Mark Kaplan (1985), who agues that the moral of the post-Gettier literature is that what is really of epistemic value is justified true belief, and not knowledge (knowledge being justified true belief plus an additional component to rule-out Gettier-style cases).
The Value of Knowledge Pritchard, Duncan 2007
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