EMPIRICISM IN DERMATOLOGIC THERAPEUTICS

Empiricism in Artificial Life

Strong artificial life research is often thought to rely on Alife systems as sources of novel empirical data. It is hoped that by augmenting our observations of natural life, this novel data can help settle empirical questions, and thereby separate fundamental properties of living systems from those aspects that are merely contingent on the idiosyncrasies of terrestrial evolution. Some authors ...

Empiricism in managing Behçet's syndrome.

Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. Hasan Yazici, MD, Professor of Rheumatology (retired); Gulen Hatemi, MD, Associate Professor of Rheumatology. Please address correspondence to: Prof. Hasan Yazici, Ic Hastaliklari Anabilim Dali, Cerrahpasa Tip Fakultesi, Aksaray, Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail: hyazici@attgloba...

Empiricism in mental health law.

Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932. "It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single ... State may. if its citizens choose. serve as a laboratory .... "1 Brandeis was writing here in the context of statutory change. Experiments. however. mean little unless meaningful data are collected which establish the results or effects brought about by changes in the law or in any ot...

Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology

Empiricists are in general rather suspicious with respect to any kind of abstract entities like properties, classes, relations, numbers, propositions, etc. They usually feel much more in sympathy with nominalists than with realists (in the medieval sense). As far as possible they try to avoid any reference to abstract entities and to restrict themselves to what is sometimes called a nominalisti...

Some Realism About Empiricism