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  • First-order: does the collapse of the financial markets, which suggests that the information was not used to price risk correctly — the risks getting lost in the tranches, as it were — change the calculus of privacy?

    Archive 2009-07-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • First-order: does the collapse of the financial markets, which suggests that the information was not used to price risk correctly — the risks getting lost in the tranches, as it were — change the calculus of privacy?

    Privacy and risk Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • First-order logic and existential second-order logic

    Independence Friendly Logic Tulenheimo, Tero 2009

  • First-order model theory, also known as classical model theory, is a branch of mathematics that deals with the relationships between descriptions in first-order languages and the structures that satisfy these descriptions.

    First-order Model Theory Hodges, Wilfrid 2009

  • (First-order) infinitesimals can never be neglected

    Continuity and Infinitesimals Bell, John L. 2009

  • First-order logic is a mathematical language in which most mathematical statements can be formulated.

    Computability and Complexity Immerman, Neil 2008

  • First-order desires are desires for various goods; second-order desires are desires that one desire certain goods, or that one act on one first-order desire rather than another.

    Integrity Cox, Damian 2008

  • First-order logic with equality can be translated back into hybrid logic by the translation HT given below.

    Hybrid Logic Braüner, Torben 2008

  • First-order benefits justify charitable giving, but it takes second-order benefits to justify charitable diversification.

    More Sex Is Safer Sex Steven E. Landsburg 2007

  • First-order benefits justify charitable giving, but it takes second-order benefits to justify charitable diversification.

    More Sex Is Safer Sex Steven E. Landsburg 2007

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