Abstract This article explains Kant’s claim that sciences must take, at least as their ideal, the form of a ‘system’. I argue notion systematicity can be understood against background de Jong and Betti’s Classical Model Science (2010) writings Georg Friedrich Meier Johann Heinrich Lambert. According to my interpretation, Meier, Lambert Kant accepted an axiomatic idea science, articulated by Mod...

Primary malignant mesothelial tumours were recognized by pathologists before asbestiform minerals (chrysotile, crocidolite and amosite) were mined commercially. The discovery, 40 yrs ago, of a causal link with crocidolite and the wide-ranging epidemiological studies which followed are the subject of this review. Early case-control and descriptive surveys, supplemented by cohort studies in insul...

This article outlines some of the mistakes made in the calculus of probability, especially when the discipline was being developed. Such is the character of the doctrine of chances that simple-looking problems can deceive even the sharpest minds. In his celebrated Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilités (Laplace 1814, p. 273) the eminent French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) said: