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This dissertation contains three distinct studies that focus on the various ways Israeli Arab and Jewish students (grades 7–11) judge and reason about peer and spousal violence. Literature from domain theory, school violence, family violence, and stereotyping and prejudice are u…

Classification is a core reasoning service provided by most OWL reasoners. Classification in general is hard - up to 2NExptime for SROIQ(D), the Description Logic which is underpinning the Web Ontology Language (OWL). While it has been shown that classification is practical for …

This thesis is concerned with pragmatic factors of deontic reasoning, namely scale of violation, aggravating and mitigating circumstances and power of source. Nine experiments are reported investigating deontic reasoning and judgement revision. Experiment 1 established scale of …

The high stakes of reasoning in intelligence are best seen in its failures. Pearl Harbor, September 11th, and Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction all evocatively illustrate the potentially serious consequences of flawed reasoning in intelligence. Naturally, as a result, every eff…

This dissertation investigates “vertical readings” of the Commedia, i.e., the interpretive method that compares and contrasts same-numbered cantos in the three canticles of the poem: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Although there is a consensus that specific vertical readings…