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UNINA9910135394303321 |
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Autore |
Wronski Leszek |
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Reichenbach's paradise : constructing the realm of probabilstic common "causes" / / Leszek Wroński; managing editor, Anna Michalska; language editor Sara Tavares |
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Warsaw, [Poland] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Open, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (xii, 113 pages) |
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Causation |
Philosophy (General) |
Probabilities. Mathematical statistics |
PHILOSOPHY / General |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures / List of Tables -- Acknowledgments / Introduction -- 1 The Principle of the Common Cause: Its Shapes and Content -- 2 Screening Off and Explanation: Formal Properties -- 3 The Principle of the Common Cause and the Bell Inequalities -- 4 The Principle of the Common Cause and the Causal Markov Condition -- 5 Causal Closedness -- 6 Causal Completability -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Since its introduction by Hans Reichenbach, many philosophers have claimed to refute the idea - known as the common cause principle - that any surprising correlation between any two factors that do not directly influence one another is due to some common cause. For example, falsity of the principle is frequently inferred from falsifiability of Bell's inequalities. The author demonstrates, however, that the situation is not so straightforward. There is more than one version of the principle formulated with the use of different variants of Reichenbach-inspired notions; their falsity still remains an open question. The book traces different formulations of the principle and provides proofs of a few pertinent theorems, settling the relevant |
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questions in various probability spaces. In exploring mathematical and philosophical issues surrounding the principle, the book offers both philosophical insight and mathematical rigor. |
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UNINA9910778222603321 |
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Autore |
Einbinder Susan L. <1954-> |
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Beautiful death : Jewish poetry and martyrdom in medieval France / / Susan L. Einbinder |
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Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 2002 |
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©2002 |
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1-282-15778-7 |
9786612157783 |
1-4008-2525-3 |
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[Course Book] |
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1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : map |
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Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world |
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Hebrew literature, Medieval - France, Northern - History and criticism |
Martyrdom in literature |
Martyrdom - Judaism |
Judaism - France, Northern - History - To 1500 |
Jews - France, Northern - History - To 1500 |
Jews - Persecutions - France, Northern |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-209) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Medieval Poetry of Jewish Martyrdom -- ONE. Faith and Fury: Medieval Jewish Martyrological Poetry and Resistance to Conversion -- TWO. "The Fire Does Not Burn": The Emergence of a Martyrological Motif -- THREE. Burning Jewish Books -- FOUR. Wheels within Wheels: Literature, History, and Methodology -- FIVE. Une Bele Qedushah: Troyes 1288 -- SIX. Jonathan and His Magic Book: Paris 1290 -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
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When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at |
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the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the laments reflecting the specific conditions of Jewish life in northern France. The poems offer insight into everyday life and into the ways medieval French Jews responded to persecution. They also suggest that poetry was used to encourage resistance to intensifying pressures to convert. The educated Jewish elite in northern France was highly acculturated. Their poetry--particularly that emerging from the innovative Tosafist schools--reflects their engagement with the vernacular renaissance unfolding around them, as well as conscious and unconscious absorption of Christian popular beliefs and hagiographical conventions. At the same time, their extraordinary poems signal an increasingly harsh repudiation of Christianity's sacred symbols and beliefs. They reveal a complex relationship to Christian culture as Jews internalized elements of medieval culture even while expressing a powerful revulsion against the forms and beliefs of Christian life. This gracefully written study crosses traditional boundaries of history and literature and of Jewish and general medieval scholarship. Focusing on specific incidents of persecution and the literary commemorations they produced, it offers unique insights into the historical conditions in which these poems were written and performed. |
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