The theoretical virtue of parsimony values the minimizing of theoretical commitments, but theoretical commitments come in two kinds: ontological and ideological. While the ontological commitments of a theory are the entities it posits, a theory’s ideological commitments are the primitive concepts it employs. Here, I show how we can extend the distinction between quantitative and qualitative par...

This paper discusses a perception-based theory for a multi-variate stopping problem with a monotone rule by Yasuda et al. (1982). The problem is developed by using the perceptive analysis of the previous work(Kurano et al. (2004)). We will show a recursive equation which determines the perceptive value of its equilibrium point for the model.

According to the Religious Openness Hypothesis, the religious and psychological openness of American Christians is obscured by a defensive ghettoization of thought associated with a Religious Fundamentalist Ideological Surround and can be discovered instead within a Biblical Foundationalist Ideological Surround. A test of this claim examined Religious Fundamentalism, Biblical Foundationalism, Q...

Perceptive or sensorineural deafness occurs as the result of disorders of the cochlea or auditory nerve. The development of perceptive deafness during adult life can create many problems for both the sufferers and their families. At work it may seriously impair efficiency or even make a change of occupation necessary. Social and domestic life are also affected to a varying degree. Many severely...

Visual saliency plays an important role in early vision. Humans automatically orient to salient information, via covert attentional shifts and overt eye movements. Here, we measured saliency using a novel psychophysical method. The stimulus was a grid of colored oriented lines. Line luminance varied continuously over the image. Using a mouse, participants adjusted line luminance at locations in...