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  • Miss Humberstone is rather dangerously lame in her heel. —

    Letter 369 2009

  • Tom Humberstone produced this wonderful comic for last week's 24-hour-comic challenge, called "Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Crohn's Disease."

    Boing Boing 2007

  • It is actually quite difficult to find an adequate formulation that is immune to counter-example, although many theorists suspect there is nonetheless something right about Hume's claim (Humberstone 1996).

    Boys in White Suits 2009

  • A logic satisfying this weaker replacement property is called selfextensional by Wójcicki and congruential by Humberston (Humberstone, 2005).

    Propositional Consequence Relations and Algebraic Logic Jansana, Ramon 2006

  • We might say that the sentence is “deeply necessary,” adapting similar use by Evans (1979), as Evans is famously interpreted by Davies and Humberstone (1980; for a more extended discussion that is clear, see Soames 2005, chap. 6).

    Rigid Designators LaPorte, Joseph 2006

  • Conservation Officer Mike Humberstone responded and found a giant whitetail buck dead on private land.

    Field and Stream Exclusive: The Poaching of Ontario's Near Record Whitetail 2004

  • Further investigation led Humberstone to suspect two Americans, who had fled the country.

    Field and Stream Exclusive: The Poaching of Ontario's Near Record Whitetail 2004

  • This analysis is usually attributed to Kim (1982) (e.g. in Lewis 1983a and Sider 1993), though Humberstone (1996) dissents from this interpretation.

    Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Properties Weatherson, Brian 2006

  • It's not quite as much of a mis-match as it seems at first glance, because Humberstone had directed a bunch of Charlie Chan films for Fox, and there always was a certain amount of stylistic connection between the noir and the B-movie mystery film, particularly since most noir movies were made on relatively small budgets.

    I Wake Up Screaming Jaime J. Weinman 2006

  • It's not quite as much of a mis-match as it seems at first glance, because Humberstone had directed a bunch of Charlie Chan films for Fox, and there always was a certain amount of stylistic connection between the noir and the B-movie mystery film, particularly since most noir movies were made on relatively small budgets.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

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