This paper aims to critique the argument constructed by Anna Smajdor and Joona Räsänen that pregnancy is a disease. Their argument that pregnancy fits the features of disease they enumerate stems from ...

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Occam’s razor is the principle that, all else being equal, simpler explanations should be preferred over more complex ones. This principle is thought to guide human decision-making, but the nature of ...

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After reading Chen Ming's article published in China Daily, "What use are the humanities in the age of AI?", I, a Malay language teacher at a university in Nanning Guangxi, felt compelled to write in ...

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb. If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, ...

Modal logic is the study of the laws of inference for judgments such as "it is necessary that", "it is possible that", "K knows that", "K affirms that", etc. Its ...

The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method was founded by Karl Popper in 1946 and is renowned for a type of philosophy that is both continuous with the sciences and socially relevant.

The contents of the course may vary from year to year but will be based on: (1) a further logical and philosophical study of classical propositional and predicate logic; (2) a logical and ...

Abstract: Two 128-point 16-bit radix-2 FFT/IFFT processors based on synchronous-logic (sync) and asynchronous-logic (async) for low voltage (1.1-1.4 V) energy-critical low-speed hearing aids are ...