Arresting a Suspect in a Third Party's Home: What Is Reasonable?

What Is a Reasonable Argumentation Semantics?

In view of the plethora of different argumentation semantics, we consider the question what the essential properties of a “reasonable” semantics are. We discuss three attempts of such a characterization, based on computational complexity, logical expressivity and invariance under partial duplication, which are satisfied by most, if not all, known semantics. We then challenge each of these propo...

What is a home range?

‘‘Home range’’ is a standard concept in animal ecology and behavior but few people try to understand what home ranges mean to the animals that have them and often assume that a home-range estimate, quantified using some method, is the home range. This leads to 2 problems. First, researchers put much energy into discerning and using the ‘‘best’’ methods for estimating home ranges while no one un...

What is a Reasonable Screening Test for Colorectal Cancer

1. Capella G. Is fecal DNA testing superior to fecal occult-blood testing for colorectal cancer screening? Nat Clin Pract Oncol 2005;2:234-5. 2. O’Leary BA, Olynyk JK, Neville AM, Platell CF. Cost-effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening: comparison of communitybased flexible sigmoidoscopy with fecal occult blood testing and colonoscopy. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2004;19:38-47. 3. Haug U, Bre...

Standing up for what is reasonable.

third world intellectuals in v. s. naipaul’s fiction: the mimic men, a bend in the river, magic seeds

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...