„He is a Mysterious Man“:

Negative Introspection Is Mysterious

The paper provides a short argument that negative introspection cannot be algorithmic. This result with respect to a principle of belief fits to what we know about provability principles. Autoepistemic reasoning is reasoning the inferences of which depend on representing one’s own state of belief. A cognitive agent engaged in autoepistemic reasoning draws conclusion from introspective beliefs. ...

When a man is tired of London he is tired of life.

A critical study on commentaries of : He said: This is a right way with Me

On the forty first verse of the chapter Hijr no acceptable commentary has given so far. The verse can be regarded as one opposed to the diversity of commentators` views. The origin of the diversity of the two groups, Shiite and Sunni, has been known to be the meaning of This and with Me. The paper has critically given four ways of reading the verse firstly and then studied commentator`s four vi...

he is one and there is naught but he (isfahani hatif on the summit of tarjiband)

the celebrated poem of ahmad hatif of isfahn, known in persian as the hatef’s tarjiband is studied in the present paper from a historical point of view to reveal the status of this poet in persian poetry, as well as its mystical content. first a short history of tarjiband as a poetic form is revised, then the sixteen poets who have written a mystical tarjiband are presented. all of these tarj...

A mysterious ‘homesickness’

An 82-year-old female patient presented with fever and chills of two weeks’ duration. Because of pyuria on dipstick, sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim had been empirically initiated. On admission, temperature was 38.5◦C. Blood tests showed increased C-reactive protein and creatinine serum levels (Figure A). White blood cell count was normal. Urinalysis confirmed leucocyturia (350/hpf) but urine...