Further Comments on Componential Analysis

Further Comments on Ahn et al

In what follows I supplement my published reply (Strevens 2001) to Ahn et al.’s commentary (Ahn et al. 2001) on my paper concerning psychological essentialism (Strevens 2000). The supplementary comments come in three parts. First, I ask whether my alternative to psychological essentialism, which I call the minimal hypothesis, or minimalism for short, can explain certain experimental results of ...

Tardive dysmentia : further comments.

The author distinguishes between the putative neuroleptic-induced disorders of tardive dysmentia and supersensitivity psychosis. The distinction is made with regard to clinical features, response to pharmacological intervention, and proposed etiologies. It is suggested that tardive dysmentia is due not to dopaminergic supersensitivity but to some other neurotoxic phenomenon associated with the ...

Professional ethics: further comments.

Downie continues the debate over professional ethics in general, and medical ethics in particular, begun by P. Sieghart (Journal of Medical Ethics 1985 Sep; 11(3): 117-122), and furthered by Downie and Sieghart (JME 1986 Jun; 12(2): 64-66) and R. Gillon (JME 1986 Jun; 12(2): 59-60). Here Downie addresses Gillon's theses that a physician has a special obligation to his patients, that this oblig...

Some Further Comments

It has recently been observed that a stochastic (in nite degree of freedom) time series with a 1=f power spectrum can exhibit a nite correlation dimension, even for arbitrarily large data sets. [A. R. Osborne and A. Provenzale, Physica D 35, 357 (1989).] I will discuss the relevance of this observation to the practical estimation of dimension from a time series, and in particular I will argue t...

Disability and monstrosity: further comments.