Reference fiction, and omission

An Error of Omission

We read with great interest a recent article entitled “Posterior Mediastinal Sarcoidosis” by Rosseel et al (Chest 1986; 90:462-64). As the authors indicate, posterior mediastmnal lymphadenopathy in sarcoidosis has rarely been recorded. It may be expected that frequent use of CT in these cases may change our current concept about the incidence of such involvement in the disease, and additional w...

Harm: Omission, Preemption, Freedom

CCA is an attractive account of harm. It has many virtues and many advantages over its competitors. But I won’t explore those features here. Ben Bradley gives a nice summary of them, though he ultimately rejects CCA (2012: 396–7, 401). In this paper, I’ll reply to two objections to CCA that haven’t been adequately addressed in the literature. Some critics think that certain omission and preempt...

Fiction indexing and the development of fiction thesauri

Omission and commission in judgment and choice

Subjects read scenarios concerning pairs of options. One option was an omission, the other, a commission. Intentions, motives, and consequences were held constant. Subjects either judged the morality of actors by their choices or rated the goodness of decision options. Subjects often rated harmful omissions as less immoral, or less bad as decisions, than harmful commissions. Such ratings were a...

An examination of "nonleadership": from laissez-faire leadership to leader reward omission and punishment omission.

Laissez-faire leadership has received much less attention than have the 3 transactional leadership dimensions of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ). However, laissez-faire leadership has shown strong negative relationships with various leadership criteria, and the absence of leadership (laissez-faire leadership) may be just as important as is the presence of other types of leadershi...