Ethical Egoism - University of Colorado Boulder

Reason #2: Egoism is not at odds with “ordinary morality”: Another reason in favor of egoism is that it “explains” our ordinary intuitions about morality. It seems to most people that things like killing, stealing, lying, etc., are morally wrong. According to egoism, this is because the best way to serve your own

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A Simple Explanation of Partial Least Squares

(The reason the sample covariance matrix has n 1 in the denominator rather than nis to correct ... The simplest case of linear regression yields some geometric intuition on the coe cient. Suppose we have a univariate model with no intercept: y = x + : Then the least-squares estimate ^ of is given by ^ = hx;yi

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Hidden Markov Models Fundamentals - Stanford University

make two Markov assumptions that will allow us to tractably reason about time series. The limited horizon assumption is that the probability of being in a state at time tdepends only on the state at time t 1. The intuition underlying this assumption is that the state at time trepresents enough summary of the

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Basic Concepts of Statistical Inference for Causal Effects ...

Predictive inference – intuition under ignorability 13. Matching to impute missing potential outcomes – donor pools 14. Fitting distinct predictive models within each treatment group 15. Formal predictive inference – Bayesian 16. Nonignorable treatment assignment – sensitivity analysis ... reason is that Y2([Asp, Asp]) ...

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Introduction to Ethics - Jones & Bartlett Learning

require a balance of emotion and reason. Throughout history, people, based on their culture, have engaged in actions that they believed were justifiable only to have the light of reason later show otherwise. Following a charismatic, but ego-centric, leader, such as Adolph Hitler, is …

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Random Processes for Engineers 1 - University of Illinois ...

ics courses. For example, engineers generally have good experience and intuition about transforms, such as Fourier transforms, Fourier series, and z-transforms, and some associated methods of complex analysis. In addition, they routinely use generalized functions, in …

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The hydrophobic effect - Brandeis

the reason for them not mixing is not the hydrophobic effect. These compounds don’t mix, simply because they can make more favorable interactions with themselves than with the other compound. The hydrophobic effect is distinctly different from this generic de-mixing.

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The Trolley Problem

5. Objection To Divert-vs.-Redirect: Thomson thinks that the reason it is wrong to push the fat man, but permissible to pull the lever, is that there is a duty not to harm others by introducing a new threat (even if doing so produces a greater good). This is stronger than the duty not to harm others by diverting a threat to produce a greater good.

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Blooms Taxonomy questions

Blooms Level II: Comprehension Demonstrate understanding of facts and ideas by organizing, comparing, translating, interpreting, giving descriptors and stating main ideas.

W.D. Ross’s Moral Theory - UMass

1 W.D. Ross’s Moral Theory The next theory we will consider comes from William David Ross (1877-1971) While mostly deontological, Ross’s theory is somewhat in between stricter deontological theories, like Kant’s, and teleological theories, like utilitarianism.

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