Panic, Plots, and Polemic

Beyond polemic.

Recycling the Cycle of Perception: A Polemic

Proactive An agent achieves goals, implicit or explicit. Its behaviour is teleological, planned and future-oriented. Reactive An agent perceives and reacts to environmental change. Its behaviour is causal and past-determined. Model-based It uses models of the world to guide its perception and behaviour. Learning-oriented It acquires new behaviours and new models. Rational It reasons, solves pro...

How the Law School Fails: A Polemic

Bivariate Qq-plots and Spider Web Plots

Abstract: QQ-plots are extremely useful in univariate data analysis. In this article, Koltchinskii (1997) and Chaudhuri’s (1996) definition of multivariate quantile is used to develop analogous plots for bivariate data. Bivariate qq-plots are exhibited for comparing a sample to a given population distribution (the bivariate normal), and for comparing two or more bivariate samples. The plots are...

2 Locke's Polemic against Nativism

In the 17th century, there was a lively debate in the intellectual circles with which Locke was familiar, revolving around the question whether the human mind is furnished with innate ideas. Although a few scholars declared that there is no good reason to believe, and good reason not to believe, in the existence of innate ideas, the vast majority took for granted that God, in his infinite goodn...