Two Ridges, One Explanation

A Proper Explanation When You Need One

Quality program design has received considerable attention from the software engineering community. Quality user manual design has received considerable attention from the human computer interaction community. Yet manuals and systems are often independently conceived, and thus do not well complement each other. This paper shows one method of easily obtaining correct and complete user manuals gu...

Plato Seeking for “One Real Explanation” in Phaedo

What this essay is to discuss is Plato''s theory of explanation in Phaedo. In this dialogue, we observe that Socrates criticizes both the natural scientists’ explanations and Anaxagoras’ theory of Mind since he thinks they could not explain all things, firstly, in a unitary and, secondary, in a real way. Thence, we are to call what Plato is seeking as his ideal explanation in Phaedo “One Real E...

Marching ridges

Marching Ridges is an algorithm for finding ridges of measurement functions defined for images, in which the ridges are defined as level sets of first derivatives of the measurement functions. Marching Ridges is both specific in its application to 2D and 3D medical images for the purpose of finding cores, and general in its theoretical application to finding ridges of intensity, boundary and me...

Do fingerprint ridges and characteristics within ridges change with pressure?

Chemical Analogies: Two Kinds of Explanation

Analogies are often used to help provide explanations of unfamiliar phenomena by comparing them to familiar phenomena. Analogical explanations are of two kinds: ones that provide systematic clarification, and ones that give a causal account of why something happened. We describe a theory and implementation of analogical mapping that applies to both kinds of explanation. The theory says that the...