Mikkonen's thesis is that works of philosophical fiction can be seen as a type of rhetorical argument what Aristotle called enthymeme, in which the conclusion is missing and that the reader is intended to make the inference based on the fictive premises.
The ruling is based on a fictive "post-racial" premise that racial minorities in the South no longer confront discriminatory barriers to voting.
It should be noted that the cats in our preparation were spontaneously breathing whereas Shannon's experiments were based on a fictive cough model.
Furthermore a comparison between the time to a positive blood culture result and the SF result, based on a fictive assumption that it was done either on a once or twice daily basis, was made.
It's so true that there is no demographic evidence of women practising sex selective abortion in Britain: this whole scandal is based on a totally fictive set-up.
He has created an entire fictive world, based on the imaginary town and environs of Nobson.
In the Transitive heuristic, the representatives are instances that are selected randomly from the data set, while in the PMR-Transitive heuristic they are fictive and computed based on the profile of the cluster's members.
We focused on a specific counterfactual learning signal, the so-called "fictive error," that is based on hypothetical outcomes that could have happened (Lohrenz et al., 2007; Montague, King-Casas, & Cohen, 2006).
Based on the selective coupling between the reappraisal strategy and fictive learning signals, we speculate that while both fictive and reward prediction errors guide decision-making, fictive signals might be more important in allowing behavioral flexibility while reward prediction errors are more robust and resilient to external modulatory factors.
The fourth story, "Max Ferber," probably the most fictive of the tales, is based on the life of the British painter Frank Auerbach, who, at the age of seven, was sent from his native Germany to Britain, and whose parents died in the Holocaust.
