FLETCHER SCALE ON TAXUS, 1999

Logan Fletcher

Fred Dretske opens his book Knowledge and the Flow of Information with the assertion that information is objective. In contrast to the common view of information “as something that depends on the interpretive efforts— and, hence, on the prior existence—of intelligent life,” Dretske intends to develop a view of information “as an objective commodity, something whose generation, transmission, and...

Robert Fletcher

Dedicatory essay on John C. Fletcher.

Article 3 FLETCHER

As technology continues to progress beyond the limits of what was once thought impossible, questions concerning the state of the human dominate Western thought. However, while the lines between 'human' and 'nonhuman' are perpetually disintegrating, the human seems reluctant to move beyond humanist paradigms that deploy notions of ‘essence’ as both a unique human quality, and the justification o...

Studies on Fletcher trait and Fitzgerald trait

The way by which contact of blood with foreign surface accelerates clotting has been elucidated from the discovery of four rare disorders of blood coagulation; Hageman trait, plasma thromboplastin antecedent (PTA) deficiency, Fletcher trait, and Fitzgerald trait. Interestingly, it was unexpectedly found that Fletcher factor is plasma prekallikrein and Fitzgerald factor is high-molecular-weight ...