The paper builds a belief hierarchy as a common framework to all uncertainty measures for which an actor is ambiguous about his uncertain beliefs. The belief hierarchy is moreover interpreted by distinguishing physical and psychical worlds, associated to objective and subjective probabilities. Various principles are introduced in order to transform a belief hierarchy, which are applied to estab...

Less than two centuries ago, some natural philosophers speculated that all things had their ontological place on a “chain of being.” God occupied the position of greatest perfection; humans were farther down on the scale but still above all other mortal creatures. Although this imagery is supposed to carry little weight in the life sciences (the progeny, as it were, of natural philosophy), I wi...

Brain time and phenomenological time (draft) As 'tis from the disposition of visible and tangible objects we receive the idea of space, so from the succession of ideas and impressions we form the idea of time...-David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature ... space and time ... are therefore pure intuitions that lie a priori at the basis of the empirical. ... they are mere forms of our sensibility, wh...

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AIM The aim of the study was to determine the image of female-to-male transsexuals (FtM) in the opinion of women and men. Methods. The questionnaire studies were carried out in a group of 300 students. Respondents answered questions concerning their age, sex, birthplace and the questions related to different aspects of female-to-male transsexuals' life (their childhood, occupational preferences...

**This article, originally published in the April 1999 (Volume 22, no. 2) issue of The Journal of Religion and Psychical Research, was submitted to Barrie Schwortz for inclusion on the web site. Barrie requested clarification regarding scorching of artifacts in purported Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC) events as it relates to the mechanism of image formation on the Shroud, which according to...