Essentialist Blindness Would Not Preclude Counterfactual Knowledge

Hypothetical Knowledge and Counterfactual Reasoning

Salmet introduced a notion of hypothetical knowledge and showed how it could be used to capture the type of counterfactual reasoning necessary to force the backwards induction solution in a game of perfect information. He argued that while hypothetical knowledge and the extended information structures used to model it bear some resemblance to the way philosophers have used conditional logic to ...

Use of Standard Form Does Not Preclude TILA Violation

Impaired face recognition does not preclude intact whole face perception

We studied intact and impaired processes in a prosopagnosic patient (RP). In Experiment 1, RP showed an inversion superiority effect with both faces and objects, with better performance when stimuli were presented upside down than in normal upright orientation. In Experiment 2, we studied the effect of face configuration directly by comparing matching performance with normal vs. scrambled faces...

Would a rose not smell as sweet?

Background: Non-islet cell tumor induced hypoglycemia (NICTH) is a very rare phenomenon, but even more so in gastrointestinal stromal tumors. It tends to present in large or metastatic tumors, and can appear at any time in the progression of the disease. We present herein a case of NICTH in a GIST tumor and report an exon 9 mutation associated to it. Case presentation: A thirty nine year-old ma...

Severe intellectual disability does not preclude renal transplantation.

BACKGROUND Intellectual disability (ID) in patients with chronic kidney disease is a relative contraindication for kidney transplantation. METHODS We analysed a retrospective cohort of 16 recipients of kidney transplantation with ID and 83 controls. RESULTS Graft survival at 5 years was similar between patients (81.2%) and controls (80.2%), P = 0.9. Patient survival at 5 years was lower amo...