Double modals are a well-known non-standard feature of some regional varieties English in North America, but due to their rareness spoken language, questions remain as the inventory possible combinatorial types and geographic extent use contemporary naturalistic speech. This study investigates double Corpus American Spoken (CoNASE), 1.2-billion-word corpus time-stamped geolocated automatic spee...

if we discover an adequate naturalistic explanation for religious experience, will it diminish its evidentiary value? in response to this question, many thinkers such as c.d. broad, richard swinburne and william wainwright argue that an adequate naturalistic explanation cannot diminish religious experience evidentiary value unless it can be demonstrated that there is no god. in contrary to this...

positive political metatheory based on the naturalistic ontology concerning unity of method in science, implies reducing social and political issues to naturalistic one and study the emperical regularities in a similar methodology. therfore, behaviors political fields conciderd to be subjected to a causal order that implies explanation and prediction according to deductive structure of scientif...

background: the bipolar disorder patients follow-up (bdpf) project is a longitudinal, prospective and naturalistic study. the purpose of the present report is to introduce the project, elaborate its methods, and present the reliability data of the utilized symptoms rating scales. methods: the sampling started in may 2008 and is still in progress. the probands are assessed at the beginning of th...