True Imaginings Integrating Panentheism and A Personal View of God

Klaus Müller

doi:10.24204/ejpr.v11i1.2706

True Imaginings Integrating Panentheism and A Personal View of God

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion ◽

10.24204/ejpr.v11i1.2706 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 61

Author(s):

Klaus Müller

Keyword(s):

Challenging Problem ◽

Personal View ◽

Ontological Commitments ◽

As If

The perhaps most challenging problem for a panentheistic paradigm in Christian god-talk consists in integrating the trait of personhood in the monistic horizon of this approach. A very helpful way to this goal seems to be the concept of imagination. Its logic of an “as if” represents a modified variation of Kant`s idea of the postulates of reason. Reflections of Jürgen Werbick, Douglas Headley, and Volker Gerhardt substantiate the philosophical and theological capabilities of this solution which also include a sensibility for the ontological commitments included in the panentheistic approach.

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Fictionalism

Fictionalism in Philosophy ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190689605.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 103-121

Author(s):

Richard Joyce

Keyword(s):

Ontological Commitment ◽

Moral Discourse ◽

Ontological Commitments ◽

The World ◽

Moral Error ◽

As If

The moral error theorist maintains that our ordinary use of moral discourse involves ontological commitments that the world fails to satisfy. What, then, should we do with our broken moral discourse? The revolutionary fictionalist recommends maintaining it but removing the problematic ontological commitment, in a manner modeled on our familiar engagements with fictions. The hermeneutic fictionalist, by contrast, claims that this is already how we use moral discourse. One problem for the revolutionary fictionalist is that there is a multitude of possible moral fictions, so why prefer one to another? One problem for the hermeneutic fictionalist is that it really doesn’t feel as if moral discourse resembles an engagement with fiction. Reflection on the nature of the familiar “mini-fictions” of metaphorical language—whereby we say something false as a way of conveying something true—helps solve both these problems in the moral fictionalist’s favor.

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Motivation Classification and Grade Prediction for MOOCs Learners

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience ◽

10.1155/2016/2174613 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2016 ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Bin Xu ◽

Dan Yang

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Drop Out ◽

Classification Model ◽

Fine Scale ◽

Challenging Problem ◽

Student Activity ◽

Grade Prediction ◽

Grade Classification ◽

As If

While MOOCs offer educational data on a new scale, many educators find great potential of the big data including detailed activity records of every learner. A learner’s behavior such as if a learner will drop out from the course can be predicted. How to provide an effective, economical, and scalable method to detect cheating on tests such as surrogate exam-taker is a challenging problem. In this paper, we present a grade predicting method that uses student activity features to predict whether a learner may get a certification if he/she takes a test. The method consists of two-step classifications: motivation classification (MC) and grade classification (GC). The MC divides all learners into three groups including certification earning, video watching, and course sampling. The GC then predicts a certification earning learner may or may not obtain a certification. Our experiment shows that the proposed method can fit the classification model at a fine scale and it is possible to find a surrogate exam-taker.

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Improvement of an artificial test substrate technique for evaluation of em immunocytochemical labeling

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100128122 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 45 ◽

pp. 762-763

Author(s):

G. D. Gagne ◽

M. F. Miller

Keyword(s):

Bovine Serum Albumin ◽

Serum Albumin ◽

Bovine Serum ◽

Artificial Substrate ◽

Chemical Fixation ◽

As If

We recently described an artificial substrate system which could be used to optimize labeling parameters in EM immunocytochemistry (ICC). The system utilizes blocks of glutaraldehyde polymerized bovine serum albumin (BSA) into which an antigen is incorporated by a soaking procedure. The resulting antigen impregnated blocks can then be fixed and embedded as if they are pieces of tissue and the effects of fixation, embedding and other parameters on the ability of incorporated antigen to be immunocyto-chemically labeled can then be assessed. In developing this system further, we discovered that the BSA substrate can also be dried and then sectioned for immunolabeling with or without prior chemical fixation and without exposing the antigen to embedding reagents. The effects of fixation and embedding protocols can thus be evaluated separately.

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