Debating Partition: Justifications and Critiques

Model Based Critique of Justifications for Action

Justifications for actions can typically be critiqued on a number of grounds. Critiques of such justifications can be structured using an argumentation scheme for practical reasoning and associated critical questions. The form that the critiques can take in a computational system, however, depends crucially on the semantic underpinnings of the scheme. We describe a semantic model which, we argu...

Variational Principle

Variational principle for probabilistic learning Yet another justification More simplification of updates for mean-field family Examples Dirichlet Process Mixture On minimization of divergence measures Energy minimization justifications Variational learning with exponential family Mean parametrization and marginal polytopes Convex dualities The log-partition function and conjugate duality Belie...

Declutter Your Justifications: Determining Similarity Between OWL Explanations

Given the high expressivity of the Web Ontology Language OWL 2, there is a potential for great diversity in the logical content of OWL ontologies. The fact that many naturally occurring entailments of such ontologies have multiple justifications indicates that ontologies often overdetermine their consequences, suggesting a diversity in supporting reasons. On closer inspection, however, we often...

National Collaborative Network on Applied Clinical Neuroscience in Iran Justifications, Limitation, Possible Architectures, Priorities, and Strategic Plans

Human cloning laws, human dignity and the poverty of the policy making dialogue

BACKGROUND The regulation of human cloning continues to be a significant national and international policy issue. Despite years of intense academic and public debate, there is little clarity as to the philosophical foundations for many of the emerging policy choices. The notion of "human dignity" is commonly used to justify cloning laws. The basis for this justification is that reproductive hum...