O Ceticismo em Hume

Hume, the New Hume, and Causal Connections

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O que é Pesquisa em Informática em Saúde?

This paper reflects the ongoing discussions among a few of the graqduate faculty at DIS/UNIFEST regarding what are valid graduate projects in Medical Informatics. This paper presents a taxonomy of academic (cientific) researches in Medical Informatics, which reflects our understanding of the international production in the area, as well as, current research and publication practicesin the área,...

Hume to FPGA

Hume is a novel language in the functional tradition, strongly oriented to systems requiring strong guarantees that resource bounds are met. To facilitate resource assurance, Hume enforces a separation of coordination and computation concerns, and deploys an abstract machine intermediary between implementations and analyses. These core design decisions also enable a high degree of portability a...

Induction before Hume

The word ‘Induction’ and its cognates in other languages, of which for present purposes the most important is Latin ‘inductio’, have a complex semantic history, as does the Greek ἐπαγωγή from which they were derived. Though some of these uses — electromagnetic induction, or the induction of a clergyman into a new benefice — are manifestly irrelevant, others that still diverge significantly from...

Hume, Skepticism, and Induction