Did the perpetrator have a gun, or did he not? – Children’s false memories and the developmental reversal phenomenon

Did He Jump or Was He Pushed? Abductive Practical Reasoning

In this paper we present an approach to abductive reasoning in law by examining it in the context of an argumentation scheme for practical reasoning. We present a particular scheme, based on an established scheme for practical reasoning, that can be used to reason abductively about how an agent might have acted to reach a particular scenario, and the motivations for doing so. Plausibility here ...

Did the Universe have a beginning?

The recent excellent article by Tom van Flandern on the evidence against the theory of the expanding universe stimulates an endeavour to get to the heart of the matter by logically reducing this complex problem to its simplest possible form. The improved instrumental capacity available to astronomers in recent years has progressively refined the evaluation of the Hubble constant, and a stage is...

Did the Proband Have Thalassemia Intermedia or Severe Thalassemia Trait?

I enjoyed reading Bilgen et al.’s case report, The effect of HBB: (c*+96T>C (3’UTR+1570 T>C) on the mild β-thalassemia intermedia pheonotype, in the recent issue of the Journal (2011; 28: 219-222). I congratulate the authors for exploring at the molecular level at least one of the thalassemia minima that fits well with the present clinical thalassemia nomenclature. Based on their clinical descr...

A Critical Analysis of the Origin and Nature of Classical Mathematical Economics: Why Classical Economists Did Not Use Mathematics?

The role of mathematics in economic analysis is not yet a settled question. Smith, Ricardo, Mill and other eminent classical economists did not use mathematics in their economic theorizations. We have defined classical mathematical economics as the whole body of literature in mathematical treatment of economics originating mainly from the contributions of Cournot,  Jevons and Walras. There are ...

Liebig explodes Heppenheim's apothecary shop…or did he?