Reply to B Lehaney and S Clarke

Clarke ’ s Defense of the Contrast Argumentdltc

In his (2004), Randolph Clarke assesses an important version of an influential argument against libertarianism about metaphysical freedom. Clarke calls the anti-libertarian argument he evaluates the Contrast Argument. It targets the following claim: there could be an undetermined free act done by S such that S would have freely done something else had S not done the act in question. This modal ...

Reply to b comments on Earth ’ s heat flux revised and linked to chemistry

The lengthy comment by Von Herzen et al. does not address the most important conclusions of the paper by Hofmeister and Criss [Hofmeister, A.M., Criss, R.E., 2005, Earth’s heat flux revisited and linked to chemistry. Tectonophys. 395, 159–177.]. These are 1) that actual measurements better describe the Earth than do simplistic models with demonstrably unrealistic boundary conditions that diverg...

Linguistic Relativity: Transforming the Relative into the Insensible: a Reply to Clarke Et Al.1

I should like to respond to Clarke et al. concerning their recent paper entitled “Gender Perception in Arabic and English” which appeared in your journal, Language Learning, vol. 31, no. I , 1981. In this paper, the authors appear to have erred in several directions regarding logically and intuitively inappropriate interpretations of their data and offering an incorrect reading of the conclusio...

Reply to S. Rastogi et al

Yellow fever vaccine-reply to S. arya

Letters tion centers in Lagos was fully potent, but potency in Osun and Oyo was 016 log 10 to 0.22 log 10 lower than the stipulated level (2). Furthermore, the titer of two vaccine lots that had been frozen after reconstitution from their lyophilized state dropped from the initial 3.15 log 10 to 3.53 log 10 to zero. If the United States were to implement an extended strategy, similar studies of...