The Importance of Not Being Earnest – The Feeling behind Laughter and Humor

The importance of not being earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humor (review)

The Importance of Not Being Earnest - The Feeling behind Laughter and Humor

The Importance of ‘Being Earnest’

Reference to properties is normally achieved by the use of nominalizations of predicative expressions. The article examines the relation between different kinds of such nominalizations: while traditionally, the terms ‘wisdom’ and ‘the property of being wise’ were thought to be coreferential, there are certain contexts in which they do not seem to be interchangeable salva veritate. Based on this...

Nanotoxicity and the importance of being earnest.

In the process of advancing new technologies, in particular those intended to improve human health, it is not an uncommon observation that its proponents glorify the benefitswith directnesswhile addressing the unresolved matters in vaguer terms. More often, however, real progress requires at the very least the ability to fully appreciate overt or hidden dangers of new medical treatments. In a s...

“ The Importance of Being ( Asymptotically ) Earnest ”

Over the past decades, adaptive estimation of an unknown regression function has received much attention. What adaptivitymeans in practice is thatwe are able to find a singleprocedure that performs (essentially) optimally in aminimax sense for a wide range of smoothness assumptions simultaneously, even when the degree of smoothness is unknown. The desire to go beyond estimation and have honest ...