Criticism versus History

Model choice versus model criticism.

The new perspectives on Bayesian model criticisms presented in Ratmann et al. (2009) are challenging standard approaches to Bayesian model choice. We discuss here some issues arising from the approach, including prior influence, model assessment and criticism, and the meaning of error.

Criticism of Benacerraf’s Criticism of Modern Eleatics

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

recollsidering the history of the arabic literary criticism

the arabic literary criticism has passed various stages up to its modem formation. each stage has its own characteristics. then through different processes of its development it reached the peak. one may notice excellent creativity, innovations, and systematic approach. of course, the experts have their own ways of calssification for these stages. some believe in detail and some in brief these ...

Burkeian Criticism

In conclusion, we should like to add two admonitions. First, criticism is an art, not the raw tables or summaries of scholarship. The scholarship is a necessary prerequisite, and the formal reports, the compilations of the learned monograph, are essential to criticism. We have too much of unimaginative word counting, the pedestrian assemblage of arguments, the methodical and generalized comment...