­A defense of analogy inference as sui generis

Spleen Endoscopy: A sui generis Diagnosis of Colon Cancer

The initial analytical profile revealed anemia with a hemoglobin level of 8.7 g/dL and elevation of inflammatory parameters (white cell count of 18.6 × 10 9 /L and C-reactive protein of 20.0 mg/ dL). Blood and urine cultures, infectious disease serology, serum protein electrophoresis and prostate-specific antigen were negative. Abdominal ultrasound performed in the urgency setting was normal. G...

Sui Generis Religion , Experience , Ascription , and Art

DESPITE HIS FAULTS AND HIS ANTIQUITY, Mircea Eliade (19071986) had insights to which we would do well to attend. Our epistemological ancestors bequeath our situation to us and we need to respect them — which does not mean adopting or ignoring their vices but cultivating their virtues. The danger is not so much of throwing out the baby with the bathwater but — in a perhaps even more grotesque im...

Hume, Mill, Hill, and the sui generis epidemiologic approach to causal inference.

The epidemiologic approach to causal inference (i.e., Hill's viewpoints) consists of evaluating potential causes from the following 2, noncumulative angles: 1) established results from comparative, observational, or experimental epidemiologic studies; and 2) reviews of nonepidemiologic evidence. It does not involve statements of statistical significance. The philosophical roots of Hill's viewpo...

"Adiós Sui Géneris": a study of the legal feasibility of the sui generis right in the context of research biobanks.

The European protection of databases has been criticized for having a negative impact on the scientific development and the process of discovery. In the paper it is checked whether one of the most important research infrastructures, such as biobanks, could be entitled with the sui generis right as shaped within the current European legal system.

The EU as a Sui Generis Human Rights Law Organization: Situating the Roots of the Accession Question