Shinran's Understanding of Doubt

Towards Shared Understanding of Proof Beyond Reasonable Doubt

The concept of ‘beyond reasonable’ doubt is a standard of the legal system; however, it is a standard that is not well defined. Differences in the way beyond reasonable doubt is applied in different courts suggest the need for shared understanding of the concept. This paper explores the technique of mathematical modeling to illuminate this concept/abstraction in order to have a shared understan...

Faith, Hope and Doubt

6. Doubt, Deference, and Deliberation: Understanding and Using the Division of Cognitive Labor

1 Beyond reasonable doubt

T he Internet is a wonderful research tool. With the click of a mouse, you can beam yourself into what seems an infinite number of important lectures by eminent thinkers around the world. Just such an opportunity awaits if you search for Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at the University of California, berkeley. The results of such a search include a video of Professor Muller castigating...

Designing for Doubt

Vast quantities of data are collected about us and our world: credit card transactions, movements and traffic flows, social networks, disease outbreaks, bird migrations, and flowers blossoming. These datasets span a wide range of public and private information and contexts. However, it is the emergence of a host of mobile phone based citizen sensing platforms that is poised to become the domina...