Re-reading Jacques Derrida’s ‘Qu’est-ce qu’une traduction “relevante”?’ (What is a ‘relevant’ translation?)

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Jacques Banchereau: On a quest for cures

Earlier this year, Banchereau received the Dana Foundation–American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Award in Human Immunology Research for his innovative studies on treatments for maladies such as lupus, juvenile arthritis, and cancer. In collaborative efforts, he has pinpointed cytokines that underlie disease. He's found, for example, that interferon (IFN)-␣ drives autoimmunity in lupus (1)...

What is a Logic Translation?

Logic has been characterized as the study of sound reasoning, of what follows from what. The study of logic translations hence has to consider their interaction with the notion of logical consequence (formalized as consequence relation), which we here treat in a completely abstract way. We introduce notions of translations both between consequence relations as well as between satisfaction syste...

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

What is a Logic Translation ? In memoriam

We study logic translations from an abstract perspective, without any commitment to the structure of sentences and the nature of logical entailment, which also means that we cover both proof-theoretic and modeltheoretic entailment. We show how logic translations induce notions of logical expressiveness, consistency strength and sublogic, leading to an explanation of paradoxes that have been des...