Although students scored similarly across formats and conditions, reading time was significantly higher in the electronic conditions with this difference increasing for the home conditions.
One reading, which he calls the "domain conditions reading", is tied to ontology: it places conditions on what exists in reality.
Hofweber's view is more congenial to the Quinean project, so long as the "domain conditions" reading of the quantifiers can be stipulated to be in effect.
But on the domain-conditions reading, premise 1 (at least) is, if not false, then at least dubious -- a piece of controversial ontology.
Comparing path coefficients between conditions (reading words vs. pseudowords) and between paths confirmed previous neuropsychological observations of reading impairment as proposed by the DRC model [2].
By all counts, it should be, but perhaps my brain is conditioned to reading — and absorbing and processing — material on a screen differently than on the printed page.
"It's part of contemporary culture that we are conditioned to read or interpret something in a particular way.
"We will continue to explode all of Israel until you accept our legitimate conditions," read one.
But these images have since been covered with layers of not such optimistic graffiti: "Bomber Harris left Dresden in better condition," reads one scrawled remark.
This ballpoint will write in extreme weather conditions (read: British), underwater, upside down and in zero gravity, making it a long-time favourite among Nasa astronauts (so we're told).
The condition, reads (1.30).
