Failure is always an option: the necessity, promise & peril of radical contextualism

Petroclival meningiomas: is radical resection always the best option?

BACKGROUND The surgical management of petroclival meningiomas is, despite the invaluable technical achievements in the past decade, still burdened by a high operative morbidity. It seems doubtful whether radical surgical removal should always be the primary goal in those lesions as advocated until very recently. METHODS A series was critically analysed and the literature discussed to elucidat...

Failure is an Option:

A regulatory advantage of options market-makers significantly weakens the link between short sales and equity loans. Their advantage is an option to fail to deliver shares, created by their ability to sell short without first identifying a lender. Two years of transactions by a major market-maker shows failed deliveries in half the hard-to-borrow situations, and not a single negative-rebate loa...

Radical Contextualism

Philosophers inspired by Wittgenstein have been waging a guerrilla war against compositional, truth-conditional semantics (CTCS) since the rise to dominance of that approach to the study of meaning in the early 1970s. The neo-Wittgensteinian resistance involves two elements: first, a focus on the way our assessment of the truth conditions of sentences changes in various, seemingly open-ended wa...

The Promise and Peril of Executive Federalism:

The promise and peril of wireless technologies.

45 There is no denying the fact: Wireless, in all its forms, is hot. We’re deluged with news of how new wireless technologies will change the face of healthcare. They will lower costs, increase quality, make up for the coming shortage of doctors and nurses, connect the most rural of hospitals and clinics, move healthcare to the home, eliminate alarm fatigue ... indeed, the list seems endless. T...