Pessimistsabout aesthetic testimony argue that it is inappropriate to rely on otherpeople’s judgments in forming our own beliefs. Some suggestthat such reliance violates an epistemic norm, others – anon-epistemic norm. In making their case, pessimists offer several arguments.They also put forward cases meant elicit pessimist intuitions. thispaper, I claim none of the main arguments succeeds aga...

Many studies appear to show that categorization conforms to psychological essentialism (e.g., Gelman & Wellman, 1991). However, key implications of essentialism have not been scrutinized. These are that people’s categorizations should shift as their knowledge of micro-structural properties shift, and that people should defer in their categorizations to appropriate experts. Three studies are rep...

dada gorgood stories can be considered as parts of cultural history of the great tribes, turks (oghooz). these stories generally reflects the social situation of society in which as the result of tradition dominance on social affairs, it is located among the primitive societies with mechanical solidarity and in other words, among the communities with the natural will government. dada gorgood st...

in this paper, we considered solving approaches to flexible job shop problems. makespan is not a good evaluation criterion with overlapping in operations assumption. accordingly, in addition to makespan, we used total machine work loading time and critical machine work loading time as evaluation criteria. as overlapping in operations is a practical assumption in chemical, petrochemical, and gla...

Deference and dissent strike a delicate balance in any polity. Insufficient deference to authority may incapacitate government, whereas too much may allow leaders to orchestrate mass violence. Although cross-national and cross-temporal variation in deference to authority and willingness to express dissent has long been studied in political science, rarely have scholars studied programs designed...