The Way to Truth

On Parmenides' Poem: "The Way of Truth" and "The Way of Opinion"

Truth in the most optimistic way.

W hile I was in residency at the Mayo Clinic, my oncology attending arrived for rounds one day with a sheepish grin on his face. It was June 3rd, you see, and for the 7th straight year a former patient of his had called him and angrily exclaimed, " I am still alive, you idiot! " before slamming down the telephone. Seven and a half years ago, the oncologist had given the man 6 months to live. Si...

“Way-Centered” versus “Truth-Centered” Epistemologies

In recent years, a criticism of “indigenous knowledge” has been that this idea makes sense only in terms of acquaintance (or familiarity) type and practical (or skills-type) knowledge (knowledge-how). Understood in terms of theoretical knowledge (or knowledge-that), however, it faces the arguably insurmountable problems of relativism and superstition. The educational implications of this would ...

Wiener Way to Dimensionality

This note introduces a new general conjecture correlating the dimensionality dT of an infinite lattice with N nodes to the asymptotic value of its Wiener Index W(N). In the limit of large N the general asymptotic behavior W(N)≈Ns is proposed, where the exponent s and dT are related by the conjectured formula s=2+1/dT allowing a new definition of dimensionality dW=(s-2)-1. Being related to the t...

W2: “Discogenic Pain and the Way to Treatment”

The exact differentiation of the back pain and its backgrounds made the base of much research. Various triggers also have different pathomechanism. This background is used after accurate detection in the treatment of back pain. Discogenic pain is a particular challenge in pathobiochemistry and therapy.