Intertemporal Compromise Revisited: A Reply

Reply to: The Furcal Nerve Revisited

They reported It is formed by ventral and dorsal rami of L1-L4 nerve roots with contribution from 12th thoracic nerve (i.e. subcostal nerve). After the anterior rami of the upper four lumbar nerves have supplied psoas and quadratus lumborum segmentally, they form the pleksus in the substance of psoas major.2,3 Juliana Farny et al. reported The lumbar plexus originated from the first four lumbar...

Reply: Central American forearc slip revisited

[1] I thank Guzman-Speziale and Gomez (GSG02) for their comments on DeMets (2001) (DM2001). GSG02 do not challenge the fundamental observation reported by DM2001, namely, that earthquake slip directions along the Middle America trench between western Guatemala and Costa Rica are rotated 10 clockwise relative to the Cocos-Caribbean convergence direction. However, they dispute the interpretation ...

Aphasia revisited: A reply to Buckingham, Kertesz, and Marshall

A reply to ‘ ‘ Innate phonetic boundaries revisited ’ ’ [ J . Acoust .

Before launching into a response to the letter by Aslin, Werker, and Morgan ~2002!, I would like to make clear my belief that the work on infant speech perception has been well executed, and has been critical to the development of general theoretical perspectives on speech perception. I respect and appreciate the contributions of these authors, and consider my own work with children to be a nat...

Bayesian Confirmation and Auxiliary Hypotheses Revisited: A Reply to Strevens

Michael Strevens [2001] has proposed an interesting and novel Bayesian analysis of the Quine-Duhem (Q–D) problem (i.e., the problem of auxiliary hypotheses). Strevens’s analysis involves the use of a simplifying idealization concerning the original Q–D problem. We will show that this idealization is far stronger than it might appear. Indeed, we argue that Strevens’s idealization oversimplifies ...