the form of an Error Theory: the view developed originally by J.L. Mackie in his 1977 book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Error theory and nihilism...

was the initiator of the theory of trial and error learning based on the findings he showed how to manage a trial-and-error experiment in the laboratory...

Error management theory (EMT) is an approach to perception and cognition biases originally coined by David Buss and Martie Haselton. Error management training...

information theory and coding theory with applications in computer science and telecommunications, error detection and correction (EDAC) or error control...

subclasses: moral error theory (or moral nihilism), epistemological moral skepticism, and noncognitivism. All three of these theories reach the same conclusions...

telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction (FEC) or channel coding is a technique used for controlling errors in data transmission...

uncertainty (or propagation of error) is the effect of variables' uncertainties (or errors, more specifically random errors) on the uncertainty of a function...

may be not convicted. Much of statistical theory revolves around the minimization of one or both of these errors, though the complete elimination of either...

to error theory. J. L. Mackie is probably the best-known proponent of this view. Since error theory denies that there are moral truths, error theory entails...

Attribution bias – Systematic errors made when people evaluate their own and others' behaviors Explanatory style Living educational theory Locus of control – Concept...

The margin of error is a statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in the results of a survey. The larger the margin of error, the less confidence...

error detection and correction, data transmission and data storage. Codes are studied by various scientific disciplines—such as information theory, electrical...

Observational error (or measurement error) is the difference between a measured value of a quantity and its unknown true value. Such errors are inherent...

than on a sexual partner and results from an erotic targeting location error where the erotic target was children yet becomes inverted. According to...

Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK is a 1992 nonfiction book by Bonar Menninger outlining a theory by sharpshooter, gunsmith, and ballistics expert...

In statistics and optimization, errors and residuals are two closely related and easily confused measures of the deviation of an observed value of an element...

Factorisation axioms for type theory Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2083: attempt to index a boolean value. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration...

The standard error (SE) of a statistic (usually an estimate of a parameter) is the standard deviation of its sampling distribution or an estimate of that...

connection with "the theory of Probability, and notably the theory of Errors." The error function complement was also discussed by Glaisher in a separate...

information theory are mutual information, channel capacity, error exponents, and relative entropy. Important sub-fields of information theory include source...

In statistics, the mean squared error (MSE) or mean squared deviation (MSD) of an estimator (of a procedure for estimating an unobserved quantity) measures...

believe that values are part of reality. Error theory, as originally articulated by J. L. Mackie, is an exception. Error theorists hold that all value-statements...

Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines...

theory of testing based on the idea that a person's observed or obtained score on a test is the sum of a true score (error-free score) and an error score...

subjectivism (which denies that moral propositions refer to objective facts), error theory (which denies that any moral propositions are true), and non-cognitivism...

In mathematics, homotopy theory is a systematic study of situations in which maps can come with homotopies between them. It originated as a topic in algebraic...

synchronization errors. The bit error rate (BER) is the number of bit errors per unit time. The bit error ratio (also BER) is the number of bit errors divided...

distinctions in error in problem detection (also see signal detection theory) error in problem diagnosis (also see problem solving) error in action planning...

As a result, philosophers who accept one theory often accept the other as well. An exception is error theory, which combines cognitivism with moral nihilism...

machine learning and statistical learning theory, generalization error (also known as the out-of-sample error or the risk) is a measure of how accurately...