Abstract Are we living in an age of unreason? And what to do about it? Can combat We discuss situations which one may presume be confronted with unreasonable behavior by interlocutor: fallacies, changing rules the game, shifting some other type dialogue, and abandonment reasonable dialogue. recommend ways that could helpful obtain a return reason. These possibilities lead us moderately optimist...

Humans commonly are considered to have five separable named senses, called hearing, sight (vision), smell, taste, and touch, providing information about the external world. These senses, their organs, and respective modalities are listed in Table 18-1. The two most dominant senses are sight and hearing. Equipment designers understand human reliance on these two senses and have used them as the ...

The estimation of the total number of defects at early stages of the testing process helps managers to make resource allocation and deadline decisions. The use of nonbayesian approaches has proven to be accurate but presents a certain latency to achieve a reasonable accuracy. Here we describe BayesED3M , a bayesian estimator construct upon an existing MLE (Maximum Likelihood Estimator) named as...

in communities-of-practice (COP) much effort is dedicated to prevent "knowledge hoarding", as if knowledge contribution is the chief success factor. Little attention is paid to knowledge consumers' motivation. Two case studies are presented in which a COP had been much appropriate but, despite organizational support, has dissolved. The prime impediment was reluctant demand for knowledge as comm...

This article examines connections between the Protestant Reformation and American literature and argues that Protestantism’s best expression exists in contemporary iterations of self-reliance. The first part focuses on William Ellery Channing’s and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s literary criticism of John Milton, a poet who represents the Protestant ideals these writers combine with American principles ...