John Calvin holds that the fall radically changed humanity’s moral and epistemic capacities. Recognizing should lead Christian philosophers to see philosophical questions require at least two sets of answers: one reflecting our nature capacities before fall, other after fall. Our prelapsarian knowledge God, right, good is direct noninferential; postlapsarian them mostly indirect, inferential, f...

We discuss problems for convex Bayesian decision making and uncertainty representation. These include the inability to accommodate various natural and useful constraints and the possibility of an ana­ log of the classical Dutch Book being made against an agent behaving in accordance with convex Baye­ sian prescriptions. A more general set�based Bayesi� anism may be as tractable and would avoid ...

Impulsive noise arises in many communication systems—ranging from wireless to molecular—and is often modeled via the α-stable distribution. In this paper, we investigate properties of the capacity of complex isotropic α-stable noise channels, which can arise in the context of wireless cellular communications and are not well understood at present. In particular, we derive a tractable lower boun...

Abstract in every research paper has always been functioning as an attention-grabber which can encourage readers to keep reading the research or to dissuade it. Although abstracts are believed to play an important role in distributing the research findings, few studies have been done to evaluate the rhetorical organization of thesis abstracts, especially in the field of Teaching English as a Fo...