Why knowing healthy controls matters

Why Risk Matters: Deriving Profit by Knowing the Unknown

This white paper discusses risk and risk management from a nontraditional viewpoint. It argues that the most critical aspect of risk management is an organization’s ability to understand and identify various kinds of risk that it faces. Further, the paper posits that this understanding of types of risk is even more important than the organization’s formal financial or operational plans, or trad...

A Logic of Knowing Why

When we say “I know why he was late”, we know not only the fact that he was late, but also an explanation of this fact. We propose a logical framework of “knowing why” inspired by the existing formal studies on why-questions, scientific explanation, and justification logic. We introduce the Ky i operator into the language of epistemic logic to express “agent i knows why φ” and propose a Kripke-...

The knowledge paradox: why knowing more is knowing less

To provide an explanation of the evolution of scientific knowledge, I start from the assumption that knowledge is based on concepts, and propose that each concept about reality is affected by vagueness. This entails a paradox, which I term Knowledge Paradox (KP): i.e. we need concepts to acquire knowledge about the real world but each concept is a step away from reality. The KP provides a unify...

Why emotion matters

Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts, our knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this paper we first address the adequacy of the two dominant accounts (dual coding theory and the context availability model) put forward in order to explain representation and processing differences between concrete and abstract words. W...

Why Ecology Matters