Empiricist Physician

baha’ al-dawlah razi (860-912 ah), the innovator surgeon, empiricist physician and pioneer in immunology

baha’ al-dawlah razi was one of the most important physicians in safafid dynasty in iran. he wrote his large medical book, kholasat al-tajarob at 1501 ad. he worked as physician in the courts of two dynasties, teimurid and safavid. he had interesting innovations and findings in surgery, immunology and also in treatment. as examples, we can note to his description of pertussis and also his oral ...

An Empiricist Criterion of Meaning

When we use scientific propositions, in order to describe phenomena and organize our knowledge about the physical world, we use terms that do not refer to observable entities. So as to explain chemical reactions, we would refer to atoms or electrons, that we cannot see directly. And even such a familiar concept as the one of mass is not observable, in the sense that it cannot be in all cases, i...

Scientific Representation and Nominalism : an Empiricist View

Can a constructive empiricist make sense of scientific representation? Usually, a scientific model is an abstract entity (e.g., formulated in set theory), and scientific representation is conceptualized as an intentional relation between scientific models and certain aspects of the world. On this conception, since both the models and the representation relation are abstract, a constructive empi...

Competent Scientist Meets the Empiricist Mind

A 3-layer back propagation network is used to implement a pattern association task which learns mappings that are analogous to the present and past tense forms of English verbs, i.e., arbitrary, identity, vowel change, and suffixation mappings. The degree of correspondence between connectionist models of tasks of this type (Rumelhart & McClelland, 1986; 1987) and children’s acquisition of infle...

Samuel George Morton: Empiricist of Polygeny