Assumptions of AIDS inquiry challenged

Epistemic closure, assumptions and topics of inquiry

According to the principle of epistemic closure, knowledge is closed under known implication. The principle is intuitive but it is problematic in some cases. Suppose you know you have hands and you know that ‘I have hands’ implies ‘I am not a brain-in-a-vat’. Does it follow that you know you are not a brain-in-a-vat? It seems not; it should not be so easy to refute skepticism. In this and simil...

AIDS Antibody Testing and Health Insurance Underwriting: A Paradigmatic Inquiry

AIDS Antibody Testing and Health Insurance Underwriting: A Paradigmatic Inquiry

Assumptions about disease treatment challenged in a family health clerkship: views of first clinical year medical students.

CONTEXT During a family health clerkship at the University of The West Indies, students are expected to acquire individual and community diagnosis skills and the ability to relate the two, as well as acquire knowledge of other community agencies involved in health care. OBJECTIVE To determine the main assumptions related to disease treatment, which students have had to re-think after engaging...

the effect of using visual aids on the development of speech act of disagreement among iranian intermediate efl learners

abstract the present study tried to investigate the effect of visual aids (films) on the development of the speech act of disagreement among iranian efl intermediate learners. to this end, the researcher selected 40 homogeneous intermediate learners based on their scores on oxford placement test. .the subjects then divided into control group and experimental group. both classes were tested by ...