The Power to Do the Impossible
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DOI: 10.1007/s11245-016-9382-3
Abstract: Several recent arguments purport to show that omnipotence is incompatible with the possession of various necessary properties. These arguments appeal to one of two plausible but false principles about the nature of power: (1) that… read more here.
Keywords: power impossible; state affairs; actualize state; power ... See more keywords
Czars in the White House: The Rise of Policy Czars as Presidential Management Tools. By Justin S. Vaughn and José D. Villalobos. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. 248p. $75.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592717003577
Abstract: executive branch despite often merely cosmetic retreats, such as the 1974 congressional amendments to the Freedom of Information Act allowing federal judges to examine secret documents in camera (see pp. 179–81), the establishment of independent… read more here.
Keywords: state; policy; court; state affairs ... See more keywords
“Most tantumising state of affairs”: Mathematical and non-mathematical in quantum-like understanding of thinking
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.934776
Abstract: This article addresses the effectiveness of the predictive modeling of cognition and behavior based on quantum principles and some of the reasons for this effectiveness. It also aims, however, to explore the limitations of mathematical… read more here.
Keywords: state affairs; quantum; quantum like; mathematical modeling ... See more keywords