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UNINA9910467789803321 |
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Benson Ophelia |
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Why truth matters / / Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2007 |
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©2006 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (202 pages) |
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 Truth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in allits forms and traditions. Yet in the late twentieth century truth became suddenly rather unfashionable. The precedence given to assortedpolitical and ideological agendas, along with the rise of relativism, postmodernism and pseudoscience in academia, led to a decline both of truth as a serious subject, and an intellectual tradition thatbegan with the Enlightenment. Why Truth Matters is a timely, incisive and entertaining look at how and why modern thought and culture lost sight of the importance of truth. It is also an eloquent and inspiring argument for restoring truth to its rightful place. Jeremy Stangroom and Ophelia Benson, editors of the successful butterfliesandwheels website-itself established to "fight fashionable nonsense"-identify and debunk such senselessness, and the spurious claims made for it, in all its forms. Their account ranges over religious fundamentalism, Holocaust denial, the challenges of postmodernism and deconstruction, the wilful misinterpretation of evolutionary biology, identity politics and wishful thinking. Why Truth Matters is both a rallying cry for the enlightened vision and an essential read for anyone who's everbeen bored, frustrated, bewildered or plain enraged by the worst excesses of the fashionable intelligentsia. |
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UNISA996466578103316 |
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Böttcher Björn |
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Lévy Matters III [[electronic resource] ] : Lévy-Type Processes: Construction, Approximation and Sample Path Properties / / by Björn Böttcher, René Schilling, Jian Wang |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
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[1st ed. 2013.] |
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1 online resource (XVIII, 199 p. 1 illus.) |
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Lévy Matters, A Subseries on Lévy Processes, , 2190-6637 ; ; 2099 |
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Probabilities |
Mathematics |
Functional analysis |
Operator theory |
Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes |
Mathematics, general |
Functional Analysis |
Operator Theory |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A Primer on Feller Semigroups and Feller Processes -- Feller Generators and Symbols -- Construction of Feller Processes -- Transformations of Feller Processes -- Sample Path Properties -- Global Properties -- Approximation -- Open Problems -- References -- Index. |
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This volume presents recent developments in the area of Lévy-type processes and more general stochastic processes that behave locally like a Lévy process. Although written in a survey style, quite a few results are extensions of known theorems, and others are completely new. The focus is on the symbol of a Lévy-type process: a non-random function which is the counterpart of the characteristic exponent of a Lévy process. The class of stochastic processes which can be associated with a symbol is characterized, various schemes constructing a stochastic process from a given symbol are discussed, and it is shown how one can use the symbol in order to describe the sample path |
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properties of the underlying process. Lastly, the symbol is used to approximate and simulate Levy-type processes. This is the third volume in a subseries of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics called Lévy Matters. Each volume describes a number of important topics in the theory or applications of Lévy processes and pays tribute to the state of the art of this rapidly evolving subject with special emphasis on the non-Brownian world. |
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UNINA990006659340403321 |
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Autore |
Varano, Vincenzo |
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Organizzazione e garanzie della giustizia civile nell'Inghilterra moderna / Vincenzo Varano ; presentazione di I.H. Jacob |
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Studi di diritto comparato ; 8 |
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COLLEZ. 54 (8) |
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AL.ES.X N4 5(8BIS) |
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CN. 10 (8 |
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