I defend the unpopular view that inference can create justification. I call this view inferential creationism. Inferential creationism has been favored by infinitists, who think that it supports infinitism. But it doesn’t. Finitists can and should accept creationism.

OBJECTIVE Among the influential cognitive factors in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), inferential confusion is a cognitive bias, which is described as the acceptance of possibilities as reality in contrast to sensory information. The present study aimed to determine the role of this construct in a clinical sample, and to test the cross-cultural validity of inferential confusion and to deter...

The structural rigidity property, a generalization of Laman's theorem which characterizes rigid bar frameworks in 2D, is generally considered a good heuristic to detect rigidities in a geometric constraint satisfaction problem (GCSP). The gap between rigidity and structural rigidity essentially resides in the fact that structural rigidity is not a geometric property. In this article, we propose...

OBJECTIVE (1) To determine the brain connectivity pattern associated with clinical rigidity scores in Parkinson's disease (PD) and (2) to determine the relation between clinically assessed rigidity and quantitative metrics of motor performance. BACKGROUND Rigidity, the resistance to passive movement, is exacerbated in PD by asking the subject to move the contralateral limb, implying that rigi...

We present a comparative study in which 'pebble game' rigidity analysis is applied to multiple protein crystal structures, for each of six different protein families. We find that the main-chain rigidity of a protein structure at a given hydrogen bond energy cutoff is quite sensitive to small structural variations, and conclude that the hydrogen bond constraints in rigidity analysis should be c...

The states of penile erection have not been quantified to establish their relationship to intracorporal fluid pressure and to soft tissue constraint. Computer-based circumferential rigidity sensing during erectile cycles now permits circumferential size and rigidity characterization. Measurements during dynamic infusion cavernometry and cavernosography relate intracorporal pressure and axial ri...