Wittgenstein wrote in the Preface to Investigations that he would have liked write a good book, but it didn’t turn out way. This may superficially seem be false modesty, given what is masterpiece. paper argues not and attempts pin down various flaws some structural others not. These include opening quotation from Augustine, thin character of language game 2, rule following considerations, priva...

In this article, Shirley Tillotson compares policies adopted by the Canadian government to address fiscal demands of Second World War with a widely available income-assistance measure introduced in 2020 response COVID-19 pandemic. She also discusses elements post-war tax administration an eye parallels that can help us think about our current situation and plans for near future. Emphasizing gre...

False-positive results are inherent in the scientific process of testing hypotheses concerning the determinants of cancer and other human illnesses. Although much of what is known about the etiology of human cancers has arisen from well-conducted epidemiological studies, epidemiology has been increasingly criticized for producing findings that are often sensationalized in the media and fail to ...

The detection of deception has attracted increased attention among psychological researchers, legal scholars, and ethicists during the last decade. Much of this has been driven by the possibility of using neuroimaging techniques for lie detection. Yet, neuroimaging studies addressing deception detection are clouded by lack of conceptual clarity and a host of methodological problems that are not...

Previous research has shown that different configurations of the implicit self-concept of intelligence (iSCI) and the explicit self-concept of intelligence (eSCI) are consistently related to individuals' performance on different intelligence tests (Dislich etal., 2012). The results indicated that any discrepant configuration between the iSCI and the eSCI impairs performance. In the present stud...

Since it was broadcast, the pragmatic studies of the American TV series Desperate Housewife (DH) have become popular. But a majority of those studies focused on Cooperation Principle and the Theory of Conversational Implication; only a few scholars studied Politeness Principle (PP). Besides, most of the pragmatic studies used the qualitative, instead of the quantitative, approach. To solve thes...