Missing Inaction: Internalizing Beneficial Omissions

What's missing in missing data? Omissions in survey responses among parents of children with advanced cancer.

BACKGROUND Missing data is a common phenomenon with survey-based research; patterns of missing data may elucidate why participants decline to answer certain questions. OBJECTIVE To describe patterns of missing data in the Pediatric Quality of Life and Evaluation of Symptoms Technology (PediQUEST) study, and highlight challenges in asking sensitive research questions. DESIGN Cross-sectional,...

Intentional Omissions

Often when one omits to do a certain thing, one’s omission is due to one’s simply not having considered, or one’s having forgotten, to do that thing. When this is so, one does not intentionally omit to do that thing. But sometimes one intentionally omits to do something. For example, Ann was asked by Bob to pick him up at the airport at 2:30 am, after his arrival at 2:00. Feeling tired and know...

Are object omissions in Romance object clitic omissions?

Omissions and Causalism∗

Omissions are puzzling, so puzzling that people tend to say puzzling things about them and give up otherwise attractive philosophical theories in order to accommodate them.1 In this paper I suggest that omissions make trouble—serious trouble, and trouble of a new, sui generis kind—for “causalism,” the standard view or family of views of agency. In particular, I am interested in causalism as an ...

Acts and omissions revisited.