Augustus and Dionysus’S triumph: A nonexistent paradox

the paradox of absolute nonexistent and its parallel propositions

the misconception (shubha) of absolute nonexistent – which we have named as paradox – is not an amusing brainteaser; rather, it is one the significant epistemological issues. its importance can be looked upon from two different viewpoints: research and educational. it is significant from the research viewpoint because it challenges propositions which constitute the foundation of our thinking an...

Cecil Augustus Joll

Augustus Desiré Waller (1856-1922).

The electrocardiograph is one of the most important instruments with which to examine the human heart and is in constant use all over the world, yet we doubt whether many physicians know who was the first man to demonstrate that the electrical response accompanying the movement of the human heart could easily be shown by a clinical application of a relatively simple instrument. In the early par...

Paradox and Relativism

Since the time of Plato, relativism has been attacked as a self-refuting theory. Today, there are two basic kinds of argument that are used to show that global relativism is logically incoherent: first, a direct descendent of the argument Plato uses against Protagoras, called the peritrope; and, second, a more recent argument that relativism leads to an infinite regress. Although some relativis...

AUGUSTUS: ab initio prediction of alternative transcripts

AUGUSTUS is a software tool for gene prediction in eukaryotes based on a Generalized Hidden Markov Model, a probabilistic model of a sequence and its gene structure. Like most existing gene finders, the first version of AUGUSTUS returned one transcript per predicted gene and ignored the phenomenon of alternative splicing. Herein, we present a WWW server for an extended version of AUGUSTUS that ...