Monday, April 19, 2010

Newton hearings

If, following a guilty plea, the factual dispute between prosecution and defence versions is so different that it affects the appropriate sentence in the case, the court must hear evidence on the disputed points8. Such hearings are referred to as “ Newton hearings”

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Short note on Aristotle

* believed that the world could be understood through detailed observation and cataloging of phenomnenon.
*knowledge as fundamentally empirical
*inductive reasoning: observing as many examples as possible then working out the underlying principles.
*categorized knowledge based on their objects and the relative certainty which you could know these objects.
eg knowledge that is true all the time (math or logic) or knowledge that is not always certain (study of human behaviour) --> characterized by probability and imprecise explanations.