Abstract According to an influential physicalist view, the intuition of distinctness is a cognitive illusion in sense that it results from fallacious reasoning: we erroneously infer referents phenomenal and physical concepts are different, fact there certain difference between our uses those concepts. (Kammerer, Review Philosophy Psychology 10:649–667, 2019) has recently argued, however, psycho...

Recently, El-Labany et al. reported on “Quasi-periodic and chaotic structure of Alfvén waves in a plasma containing double spectral distributed electrons” [Phys. Plasmas 29, 122103 (2022)]. The paper contains some fallacies, which are designated this Comment.

We present a practically unsupervised learning method to produce single-snippet answers to definition questions in question answering systems that supplement Web search engines. The method exploits on-line encyclopedias and dictionaries to generate automatically an arbitrarily large number of positive and negative definition examples, which are then used to train an SVM to separate the two clas...

I intend to explore human embryonic stem cell research from a humanities viewpoint, specifically addressing logical fallacies in the literature which not only discusses but also approves of stem cells derived from abortions. While I recognize that logic is not specific only to the humanities, fallacies occur in argumentative and persuasive writing, both of which are typically the province of th...

Advances in the biological sciences have dramatically improved the understanding of schizophrenia and related psychotic illnesses. One of the most compelling findings is the substantial degree to which cognition is impaired in these illnesses and the remedial effects that antipsychotic drugs have in treating these cognitive impairments. Despite these promising discoveries, legal cases and schol...