critical thinking is necessary to read the scientific literature. however, in addition to questions about the science, often one must also question the meaning of the text. this article provides an example of the analyses needed to understand a single sentence. in so doing, it raises several interesting issues of meaning, measurement, statistical analyses, and the form in which results are pres...

False feedback on choices has been documented to induce lasting preference change. Here we extend such effects to the political domainand investigatethetemporal persistence of induced preferences, as well as, the possible role the length of confabulatory justifications may play. We conducted a twoday choice blindness experiment using political statements, with sessions being roughly one week ap...

our problem in this article is ibn miskawayh’s analysis of the nature of happiness, and its methodology is descriptive- analytic. ibn miskawayh considers happiness as “good” and “perfection” with respect to their holders; so, he establishes some inseparability between happiness, and good and perfection. ibn miskawayh has two definitions for the concept of good. he divides this conception into s...

We compute the fixed point action of a properly defined renormaliza-tion group transformation for the Schwinger model through an expansion in the gauge field. It is local, with couplings exponentially suppressed with the distance. We check its perfection by computing the 1-loop mass gap at finite spatial volume, finding only exponentially vanishing cut off effects, in contrast with the standard...

In this article we present a notion of “logical perfection”. We first describe through examples logical perfection extracted from the contemporary concept categoricity. Categoricity (in power) has become in past half century main driver ideas model theory, both mathematically (stability theory may be regarded as way approximating categoricity) and philosophically. two decades, categoricity noti...