In a former communication* the use of alcohol was proposed as a basis for a very rapid means of determining the moisture content of soils and possibly of other materials. Th~ form of alcohol that was then suggested was ethyl alcohol. In order to ascertain whether there are other liquids that would be more satisfactory than ethyl alcohol, an investigation has been conducted in which a large numb...

Recently some results have been presented which show that certain kinds of deterministic descriptions and indeterministic descriptions are observationally equivalent (Werndl 2009a, Werndl 2011). These results prompt interesting philosophical questions, such as what exactly they show or whether the deterministic or indeterministic description is preferable. There is hardly any philosophical disc...