Placental Tumour : What Could it be ? = ماذا يمكن أن يكون ؟

What else could it be? History - quintessential forever!

In the fourth year of medical school, some of us get posted in rural hospitals to understand the working of such hospitals. A few of us were posted in a hospital in central India. We reached there, full of exuberance. On the third day at 6 am, rushed into the ER; a son with his elderly father who was unresponsive for the last half an hour. We rushed to see the patient. He was mute, unresponsive...

Could it be Lyme neuroborreliosis?

What Finitism Could Not Be *

In his paper “Finitism” (1981), W.W. Tait maintains that the chief difficulty for everyone who wishes to understand Hilbert’s conception of finitist mathematics is this: to specify the sense of the provability of general statements about the natural numbers without presupposing infinite totalities. Tait further argues that all finitist reasoning is essentially primitive recursive. In this paper...

What a Self Could Be

Metzinger’s claim that there are no such things as selves has given rise to a lot of discussions. By examining the notion of self used by Metzinger, I want to clarify what he means when saying that nobody ever was or had a self. Furthermore, I want to examine if there could be a notion of ‘self’ which is compatible with the SelfModel Theory of Subjectivity (SMT). I will argue that there is a no...

What Chances Could Not Be

The chance of a physical event is the objective, single-case probability that it will occur. In probabilistic physical theories like quantum mechanics, the chances of physical events play the formal role that the values of physical quantities play in classical (deterministic) physics, and there is a temptation to regard them on the model of the latter as describing intrinsic properties of the s...