Concluding eirenic (and mostly “unscientific”) postscript

Joseph Rouse Naturalism and Scientific Practices : A Concluding Scientific Postscript

Naturalism is the dominant philosophical stance in North American philosophy today. Many philosophers explicitly identify themselves as naturalists, whose philosophical work is closely aligned with the natural sciences. Yet the best evidence for the dominance of naturalism comes from those philosophers who profess to be its opponents. These critics often make very significant concessions to nat...

Naturalism and Scientific Practices: A Concluding Scientific Postscript

Homeopathy Is Unscientific and Unethical

Postscript

Better PostScript than PostScript: portable self-extracting PostScript representation of scanned document images

We present a Pattern Matching Based Compression (PMBC) system which compresses scanned documents into PostScript format. The output of a PMBC system is a pattern library, or font, and a series of pattern indices and positions. PMBC represents scanned documents in the same way that word processing programs represent their output pages. We explore various PostScript representations of this output...