Burgess on relevance: a fallacy indeed.

Difficile indeed.

Burgess on Plural Logic and Set Theory

John Burgess (Burgess, 2004) combines plural logic and a new version of the idea of limitation of size to give an elegant motivation of the axioms of ZFC set theory. His proposal is meant to improve on earlier work by Paul Bernays in two ways. I argue that both attempted improvements fail. John Burgess (Burgess, 2004) combines plural logic and a new version of the idea of limitation of size to ...

The “banzhaf Fallacy” Fallacy

Author’s Response to Burgess

I thank Dr. Ian F. Burgess for critically commenting on the new concept for the treatment of epidermal parasitic skin diseases (EPSD), a group of infectious diseases common in the tropical world. However, I do not think that the article “is potentially misleading and likely to cause confusion and distress in some circumstances.” Please let me address the points raised by Dr. Burgess one by one....

Paleontology: A New Burgess Shale Fauna

A spectacular Cambrian soft bodied fauna some 40 km from Walcott's original Burgess Shale locality includes over 50 taxa, some 20% new to science. New anatomical evidence from this site will illuminate the evolution of early marine animals.