• Journal of Korean Philosophical Society
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• no.126
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• pp.141-165
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• 2019

The ability hypothesis about black-and-white Mary once enjoyed the status of the "received view." But its popularity has declined since then. There seem to be two reasons for this. One is Martine Nida-Rümeline criticism against the ability hypothesis, where he tries to show that what Mary learns upon release is more than a bunch of abilities. The other is Jason Stanley and Timothy Williamson's criticism. They argue that the abilities Mary acquires amount to "knowledge-how", which in turn is reduced to "knowledge-that." This essay aims to defend the ability hypothesis against these criticisms, and thereby restore the status of the ability hypothesis. As for the first criticism, it is argued that the kind of knowledge Mary acquires other than the abilities is "demonstrative knowledge," which not only poses no threat to physicalism, but also is orthogonal to phenomenal knowledge. As for the second criticism, it is argued that by ruling out "the ability to imagine experiences," the ability hypothesis can survive Stanley and Williamson's criticism.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.323-341
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• 2012

In the recent year, the urbanization is emerging as important issue for sustainable development in China. Like the most of the world, urbanization of China is closely related with the domestic market development, the innovation of industrial structure, and the reduction of income cap among regions, urban-rural region and so on. This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on economic growth using cross section data and time series data of the eastern coastal regions in China. Based on the existing literature, we establish a hypothesis, which is basically the same as Williamson(1965)'s hypothesis, that urbanization promotes the economic growth at the early stages of development but has adverse effects in economies that have reached a certain income level. The results of study are as follows: Using 10-provinces data of the eastern coastal region in China, this paper examines the impact of urbanization on economic growth. Regression results suggest that Williamson's hypothesis is not verified, regardless of estimation methods in two models. Hence, the results show that the impact of urbanization on economic growth has not the inverse U-type function in the eastern coastal region of China.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.45-56
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• 2009

This Study has limited our scope to the study of satisfaction factor. Due to the extensiveness of fun factors of games. We had identified satisfaction factors through investigating various theories based on funology. Then, we have directly applied the satisfaction factors to games in order to define the satisfaction factors of online FPS game. Then, we have applied the satisfaction factors on to four online games, at the first phase of the study. We interviewed a group of online FPS game experts to identify the constituent elements of the factors and concluded the second phase of our investigation based on the results from the first and second phases, we have conducted a survey to verify the hypothesis. We have verified the reciprocal relationship between the satisfaction factors and game popularity by conducting a multiple regression analysis on the survey results. To conclude, there is a correlation between online FPS games and the satisfaction factors; the satisfaction factors cause the users to be absorbed into the game and to enjoy it for a long period of time.