art of Kant’s reason for writing the first Critique is to show the limits of theoretical reason; one of these limits is its inability to experience transcendence, to cognize supersensible objects, to intuit the sublime. But Kant doesn’t thereby want to make these experiences impossible—indeed, part of his reason for writing the second and third Critiques, along with such works as Religion withi...

Several authors have pointed out the relationship between consonant random sets and possibility measures. However, this relationship has only been proven for the finite case, where the inverse M€ obius of the upper probability induced by the random set simplifies the computations to a great extent. In this paper, we study the connection between both concepts for arbitrary referential spaces. We...

We consider situations in which a group takes a collective decision by aggregating individual’s judgments on a set of criteria according to some agreed-upon decision functions. Assuming the criteria and the decision to be binary, we demonstrate that, except when the aggregation rule is dictatorial or the decision rule is particularly simple, such reason-based social choice must violate the Pare...

In this work we shall give a probabilistic interpretation of possibilistic expected value, variance, covariance and correlation. 1 Probability and possibility In probability theory, the dependency between two random variables can be characterized through their joint probability density function. Namely, if X and Y are two random variables with probability density functions fX(x) and fY (y), res...

The results of an early-stage clinical trial have brought closer the prospect of a vaccine to help protect infants and children from becoming infected with a parasite that causes the most deadly form of malaria, a disease that, according to the WHO, kills more than one million people every year (1). Although the primary goal of the phase I/IIb clinical trial was to assess the safety of the vacc...

Wound closure is a part of any surgical procedure and the objective of laceration repair or incision closure is to approximate the edges of a wound so that natural healing process may occur. Over the years new biomaterials have been discovered as an alternate to conventional suture materials. Cyanoacrylate bioadhesives are one among them. They carry the advantages of rapid application, patient ...

Greene (2013) claims automatic (intuitive) processing gives rise to deontological moral judgments while controlled (reflective) processing leads to Utilitarian ones. This claim is supported by an empirical demonstration that, in some cases, a measure of cognitive reflection is correlated with Utilitarian responding to moral dilemmas (Paxton et al., 2013). These authors note there may be a rever...

Students of social sciences and economics are familiar with and have had lengthy discussions about the game theory known as the “prisoner’s dilemma.” The “prisoner’s dilemma” was created by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher in the 1950s and later formalized by Albert W. Tucker. The theory behind this game reveals why two people may not cooperate even if it is in the best interest of both parties...

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