João Duns Scotus – Tractatus de primo principio

Spinoza’s Attributes and the “Intermediate” Distinctions of Henry of Ghent and Duns Scotus

Arnaldi de Villanova opera medica omnia IV: Tractatus de consideracionibus operis medicine sive de flebotomia

Egyptian medical ideas and their possible influence on Herophilus and the other Greek doctors who practised in Alexandria by Egypt in the third century BC. The prefatory discussions are perhaps the most valuable of all, for they relate Herophilus to a much wider context. They offer judicious surveys of the development of Greek anatomy (von Staden rightly emphasizes the frontier colonialism of e...

Of SCOTUS and chicken.

JAMA: Evidence-basedmedicineoncewas criticized as “cookbook medicine.” Do you still encounter thatkindofcriticism,and if so, how do you counter it? DR GUYATT: One of my favorite talks to give is that evidence-based medicine is patient-centered medicine, so there are a number of things to point out. Perhaps most important is that evidence itself never tells you what to do, never. It’s always evi...

Symbols in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

This paper is concerned with the status of a symbol in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. It is claimed in the first section that a Tractarian symbol, whilst essentially a syntactic entity to be distinguished from the mark or sound that is its sign, bears its semantic significance only inessentially. In the second and third sections I pursue this point of exegesis through the Tractarian discussions of n...

Speaker Identification on the Scotus Corpus

This paper reports the results of our experiments on speaker identification in the SCOTUS corpus, which includes oral arguments from the Supreme Court of the United States. Our main findings are as follows: 1) a combination of Gaussian mixture models and monophone HMM models attains near-100% textindependent identification accuracy on utterances that are longer than one second; 2) the sampling ...