Nobel infallibility

Infallibility in Bentham’s Political and Legal Thought

Bolzanian knowing: infallibility, virtue and foundational truth

The paper discusses Bernard Bolzano’s epistemological approach to believing and knowing with regard to the epistemic requirements of an axiomatic model of science. It relates Bolzano’s notions of believing, knowing and evaluation to his notions of infallibility, immediacy and foundational truth. If axiomatic systems require their foundational truths to be infallibly known, this knowledge involv...

Nobel Lecture

Ladies and Gentlemen! It gives me great pleasure to be giving the Nobel Lecture before you. In it I shall be reporting on the results of my research for which the Royal Caroline Institute permit me here once again to give public expression of my deepest gratitude has awarded me the Nobel Prize. Naturally I can only present a fraction of these results and I shall have to content myself with tell...

Nobel Lecture

The sense organs respond to certain changes in their environment by sending messages or signals to the central nervous system. The signals travel rapidly over the long threads of protoplasm which form the sensory nerve fibres, and fresh signals are sent out by the motor fibres to arouse contraction in the appropriate muscles. What kind of signals are these, and how are they elaborated in the sa...

Nobel Lecture

Up until the year 1921 it was not known how the stimulation of a nerve influenced the effector organ's function, in other words, in what way the stimulation was transmitted to the effector organ from the nerve-ending. In general it was thought that it came about through direct transmission of the stimulation wave from the nerve fibre to the effector organ. But the possibility of transmission by...