Berkeley on Certainty: A Dilemma

On Certainty

Certainty is an epistemic quality or, as philosophers are used to say, an epistemic modality. It is not easily accounted for as such; but things get even more complicated due to the fact that certainty is often confused with other epistemic modalities. Since I cannot discuss here the quite sophisticated technical treatments of certainty, I focus on disentangling certainty from and relating it t...

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Berkeley DB: A Retrospective

Berkeley DB is an open-source, embedded transactional data management system that has been in wide deployment since 1992. In those fifteen years, it has grown from a simple, non-transactional key-data store to a highly reliable, scalable, flexible data management solution. We trace the history of Berkeley DB and discuss how a small library provides data management solutions appropriate to dispa...

Tumefactive Fibroinflammatory Lesion: A Diagnostic Dilemma

Tumefactive fibroinflammatory lesions (TFLs) are rare idiopathic benign fibrosclerosing lesions that clinically simulate a malignancy. TFLs are seen more frequently in males between 10 and 74 years of age. The usual site of involvement is the head and neck region, but rarely the extremities may be involved. Coexisting fibrosclerotic processes have been reported including retroperitoneal fibrosi...

On the Law of Certainty

That disquisitions on psychological topics should, to a great many persons, be devoid of interest, as having no moral or practical result, is one of the strongest evidences of the need of such inquiries, and betokens the undue sway which physical science, the inferior grade, the democracy of knowledge, exercises among us. To imagine that psychological inquiries are unprofitable speculations?a m...