How do you know?

How Do You Know?

Epistemology is traditionally classified as one of the fields of philosophy, and some psychologists have been content to leave it to the philosophers. In my opinion, the problem of how we know is an absolutely basic concern of psychology, but whether you consider my remarks to be psychology or philosophy I really do not care, as long as you are willing to grant me that the problem is a fundamen...

How do you know?

H ow do you know if your patient improves with any particular therapy? In the treatment of patients with vision threatening uveitis, the primary goal of therapy is far from universally accepted. Should the end point be improvement in visual acuity? An obvious choice but flawed since many patients benefit without a discernable change in acuity measurements. Cataract and macular scars can limit t...

Requirements Engineering: How Do You Know How Good You Are?

Organisations are seeking to improve the way they undertake engineering activities. There are numerous ways of doing this, one of which is to undertake an on-going process, or capability, enhancement activity. Praxis Critical Systems Limited provides support for such activity based primarily around the REVEAL ® requirements engineering method. By providing customised training and coaching in RE...

Racial microaggression? How do you know? - Revisited.

So how do you know you have a macromolecular complex?

Protein in crystal form is at an extremely high concentration and yet retains the complex secondary structure that defines an active protein. The protein crystal itself is made up of a repeating lattice of protein-protein and protein-solvent interactions. The problem that confronts any crystallographer is to identify those interactions that represent physiological interactions and those that do...