Reply to Roy Sorensen, 'Knowledge-lies'

Comments on " Lying with Conditionals " by Roy Sorensen

As Sorensen points out, philosophers of lying have focused exclusively on lies that are declarative utterances, such as when the shepherd boy cries, “There is a wolf chasing my sheep!” Thus, expanding out “diet of examples” to include lying with conditionals is philosophically beneficial. In particular, it forces us to clarify the traditional definition. But contra Sorensen, it does not require...

Gurjon-Oil Treatment of Leprosy. Reply to Surgeon G. C. Roy, M.D., F.R.S.

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Multiple genetic alterations are common in cancers including those of the breast. The mechanisms leading to these alterations such as point mutations, gene amplifications, deletions and replication error are often associated with frequent and consistent loss of heterozygosity (LOH) or microsatellite instability (MSI). Several cytological and molecular studies have shown high frequency loss of g...

Roy D'Andrade

Event-based prospective memory involves remembering to perform an action in response to a particular future event (e.g., give your colleague a message when you see her). In the typical laboratory paradigm to investigate event-based prospective memory, participants perform a particular action (e.g., press the Z key) when a target word appears on a computer screen during an ongoing task (e.g., a ...

Toriyeh: the Way of Escaping from Telling Lies to Patients

Toriyeh means concealing real intention of speech using its parallel and common words so that the listener constructs from speaker's speech a meaning what he/she meant. The purpose of this research is studying jurisprudential dimensions of toriyeh in order to clarify its distinction from lying and related jurisprudential commandments by explanation of the most important discussions about toriye...