Genotypes may influence the phenotypic associations among IQ, education, and income. To investigate this hypothesis, we believe that the appropriate methodology requires estimation of genetic and environmental influences using data able to separate these influences. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) is a nationally representative sample that contains genetically-informative fulla...

Received 5 January 2009; accepted 5 January 2009; electronically published 17 March 2009. Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Calvin M. Kunin, 2447 Coventry Rd., Columbus, OH 43221 ([email protected]). Clinical Infectious Diseases 2009; 48:1189–9

This article aims to find out the insolvency that occurred for cancellation of pkpu peace (homologation) in Savings and Loans Cooperative legal consequences insolvency. research uses normative or doctrinal methods are perspective applied. primary secondary sources material. The analyst technique used is syllogism method which a deductive thinking pattern. Based on results this study can be conc...

in the logic section of the hikmat al-ishraq (the philosophy of illumination), suhrawardi innovatively makes the three modes (necessity, possibility and impossibility) part of the predicate, thus considering the mode of all propositions to be ‘necessary’. insofar as the modes are also discussed in other topics in logic such as contradiction, conversion and syllogism, this innovation also influe...

In this paper, I distinguish different kinds of pluralism about logical consequence. In particular, I distinguish the pluralism about logic arising from Carnap’s Principle of Tolerance from a pluralism which maintains that there are different, equally “good” logical consequence relations on the one language. I will argue that this second form of pluralism does more justice to the contemporary s...

This article discusses how inference to the best explanation (IBE) can be justified as a practical meta-argument. It is, firstly, justified as a practical argument insofar as accepting the best explanation as true can be shown to further a specific aim. And because this aim is a discursive one which proponents can rationally pursue in—and relative to—a complex controversy, namely maximising the...

In the presence of uncertainty, computation of the certainty factor of a hypothesis requires, in general, the availability of rules for combining evidence under chaining, dis-junction and conjunction. The method described in this paper is based on the use of what may be viewed as a generalization of syllogistic reasoning in classical logic-a generalization in which numerical or, more generally,...

This thesis develops several pieces of theory and computational techniques which can be deployed for the purpose of allowing a computer to analyze short pieces of text (e.g. ‘Socrates is a man and every man is mortal.’) and, on the basis of such an analysis, to decide yes/no questions about the text (‘Is Socrates mortal?’). More particularly, the problem is seen as a logical inferencing task. T...