How do we know about the outer world — or reality, for that matter? Where does our knowledge about it come from? The attempt to answer these questions leads to epistemology, the branch of philosophy ...

The concepts of natural selection and evolution make it possible to develop a hypothesis about the emergence of the logical structure of the human mind and the a priori. Animals are driven by impulses ...

Let me be the teacher here because it appears that Jonathan Panton is very much in need of some review of “Logic and Rhetoric,” as his Aug. 21 “One View” [Who is the real Kamala Harris? Viewpoints] ...

It sometimes happens (for instance in case control studies) that a classifier is trained on a data set that does not reflect the true a priori probabilities of the target classes on real-world data.

Abstract: An algorithm was developed to obtain reconstructions from truncated projections by utilizing cross-correlation of a "knowledge set" of a priori nontruncated cross-sections with a similar ...

Abstract: Speech enhancement techniques, using spectral subtraction, have the drawback of generating an annoying residual noise with musical character. An accurate estimate of the a priori SNR is ...