Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay.

Basosquamous carcinoma: appearance and reality

Basosquamous carcinoma (BsC) is a controversial entity and both a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. BsC has mixed histopathological characteristics of both basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). BCC and SCC display characteristic histopathology and behaviour; on the other hand, BsC is a rare tumour, which has variable morphology and displays less predictable behaviour...

Process and Reality an Essay in Cosmology

Virtual Reality: A Definition History - A Personal Essay

This essay, written in 1998 by an active participant in both virtual reality development and the virtual reality definition debate, discusses the definition of the phrase “Virtual Reality” (VR). I start with history from a personal perspective, concentrating on the debate between the “Virtual Reality” and “Virtual Environment” labels in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Definitions of VR based ...

Do children really confuse appearance and reality?

Our understanding of many mental, social and physical phenomena hinges on a general understanding that appearances can differ from reality. Yet young children sometimes seem unable to understand appearance-reality dissociations. In a standard test, children are shown a deceptive object and asked what it really is and what it looks like. Many preschool children give the same answer to both quest...

Cooperating community connections: an essay on a changing political reality

Community Informatics has declared that the global is a federation of locals. James Quilligan has written an essay to the effect that applying such a definition of global requires a world institution of democratic governance. Some members of the community of community informatics researchers have come to a similar conclusion. This essay outlines an alternative interpretation based on complex ad...