Concepts as a working hypothesis

A Working Hypothesis for General Intelligence

Humans can construct powerful mental programs for many domains never seen before. We address the questions of how this occurs, and how it could possibly be accomplished in software. Section one surveys a theory of natural understanding, as follows. One understands a domain when one has mental programs that can be executed to solve problems arising in the domain. Evolution created compact progra...

The Innateness Hypothesis and Mathematical Concepts

In historical claims for nativism, mathematics is a paradigmatic example of innate knowledge. Claims by contemporary developmental psychologists of elementary mathematical skills in human infants are a legacy of this. However, the connection between these skills and more formal mathematical concepts and methods remains unclear. This paper assesses the current debates surrounding nativism and ma...

Developmental relationships as the active ingredient: a unifying working hypothesis of "what works" across intervention settings.

Developmental relationships are characterized by reciprocal human interactions that embody an enduring emotional attachment, progressively more complex patterns of joint activity, and a balance of power that gradually shifts from the developed person in favor of the developing person. The working hypothesis of this article is that developmental relationships constitute the active ingredient of ...

Metronomic Effect as A New Hypothesis in Maintenance Therapy of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Immunokinetics: a new approach to vaccines. A working hypothesis.

This paper outlines the working hypothesis that immune response is triggered, beside antigenicity referred to by the two major theories of Burnet (1959) and Jerne (1974) by the kinetics of the antigen that enters the body or, in the case of an endogenous origin, there is released from compartments where it is normally sequestered. This hypothesis, for simplicity called immunokinetics, postulate...