Believing Things Unknown

Believing in Things

During the last five decades the number of men of solid reputation and standing (including some speaking for commercial and scientific institutions) who are willing to be at least open-minded about the sea serpent has steadily grown. And it is very important to fix in one’s mind that these men use the term “sea serpent” with great reluctance and merely as a label, since this happens to be the e...

Believing Conjunctions

I shall argue in this paper that it should.1 To begin with, I shall defend (CP) against several criticisms that have been launched against it. These criticisms are of two kinds, which I shall call internal and external respectively. Internal objections are that a theory that includes (CP) fails to give an account of what it is rational to believe that is satisfactory by its own standards. In pa...

Pain resource nurses: believing the patients, and believing in themselves.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the experience of being a pain resource nurse (PRN), discuss the influence of the PRN's role on colleagues and patient care, and explore barriers to the PRN role. DESIGN Qualitative, exploratory. SETTING A Veterans Administration hospital in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE 12 nurses who received advanced training in pain assessment and management atte...

Thallium 201 myocardial imaging. Seeing is believing--believing what?

Not seeing is believing

Doctors and the public considerably underestimate the negative impact of age related macular degeneration (ARMD) on health related quality of life. (Br J Ophthalmol 2003;87:8–12) The progressive nature of ARMD prevents participation in many everyday activities, such as reading and driving, and it is also the most common cause of blindness in elderly people. A standardised questionnaire created ...