William Thomas Astbury, 1898-1961

Thomas William Thompson

nature which gave to Thompson's work a value of its own. But not less necessary for this work, upon which Thompson and the Society were alike engaged, was his ability to consider his subject from every view-point; to state in exact proportion the evidence which told in favour of, or against, a hypothesis that had to be examined. There has passed into the hands of the Societ}' an unfinished piec...

William Thomas Salter (1901-1952)

This is our first meeting* since the untimely death, on July 30, 1952, of Dr. William Thomas Salter, Professor of Pharmacology in this School since 1941. It is also the first meeting from which he has been absent in some time. We shall miss his cheerful presence which often went far to dispel the excess gravity which has on occasion crept into the deliberations of this Board. The record of his ...

Did William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd Write Edward III?

William Shakespeare is believed to be a significant author in the anonymous play,The Reign of King Edward III,published in 1596. However, recently, Thomas Kyd, has been suggested as the primary author. Using a neurolinguistics approach to authorship identification we use a four-feature technique, RPAS, to convert the 19 scenes in Edward III into a multi-dimensional vector. Three complementary a...

william of ockham's confrontation with the foundationalism of aristotle and thomas aquinas

traditional foundationalism, initially put forward by aristotle, also received attention in the middle ages. thomas aquinas sustained the theory with a little bit adaptation. but, becuase of his unique conception of the mechanism of knowledge acquisition, william of ockham suggested a theory of foundationalism based on direct realism. in order to avoid the criticisms levelled at aristotle'...

The Business Failures Project: A Problem in Methodology (with William Clark and Dorothy S. Thomas)