This blog post examines the origins of the claim that law shares structural similarities with theology, which interprets sacred texts, and offers a perspective to understand how debates over interpretive authority and academic legitimacy unfold. Jurisprudence, which claims to be a normative discipline, has long been plagued by debates over its academic legitimacy. This is because a single...
This blog post examines how literature, through poetic truth, reveals depths of emotion and perception beyond faithful reproduction of facts, exploring how fiction acquires its own unique truthfulness. Literature depicts plausible events—things that could reasonably occur according to the world’s laws—while history deals with accidental, one-time occurrences. Thus, the perspective...
This blog post examines the principles and techniques used to balance maintaining data usability while protecting personal information through de-identification. It also explains the characteristics and limitations of k-anonymity and l-diversity. Big data generated across diverse fields like finance, marketing, and healthcare often contains personal information, posing a risk of sensitive...
This blog post examines why courts worldwide prioritize maintaining a child’s living environment and stability as the highest value in international custody disputes, detailing how the best interests principle serves as the standard for adjudication. When a couple divorces, if one parent exercises custody rights over minor children as the custodial parent, the other parent, as the...
This blog post examines the traditional claim that authority conflicts with rationality alongside Raz’s rebuttal, exploring the conceptual space under which compliance with commands can secure rationality. The ‘paradox of authority’ typically refers to the assertion that ‘authority’ and ‘rationality’—two elements considered essential to human moral life—are mutually incompatible...
This blog post examines how scattered fields, which appeared inefficient in medieval European rural areas, could endure by interlocking with risk dispersion, communal grazing, and resource utilization structures. The typical form of agricultural land ownership in medieval Western Europe was ‘scattered open fields’. This refers to a structure where there were no fences between one...
This blog post takes an in-depth look at how the three-bay structure, the foundation of traditional timber architecture, distributes loads and ensures the building’s balance and stability. Traditional timber structures are fundamentally divided into two parts: the roof and the timber framework. The roof consists of various finishing materials like tiles and the rafters that support...
This blog post examines why the process by which proteins form their correct three-dimensional structures determines cellular stability and survival, focusing on the interplay between folding, misfolding, and the quality control system. When multiple amino acids are linked consecutively, they form a string-like polypeptide. This polypeptide undergoes a process of bending and coiling to...
This blog post delves deeply into the logic of how empirical evidence, when combined with different evaluation methods like elimination, inductivism, and Bayesianism, produces conflicting hypothesis selections. When we must choose one hypothesis among competing ones, we make our judgment by examining the relevant empirical evidence. Regarding how to consider empirical evidence, three main...
This blog post explores how cosmology quantitatively explains the history and structure of the universe. Based on inflationary theory and the conditions of the early universe, it helps us understand the processes through which the universe evolved into its present state. Introduction The topic I aim to explain in this blog post is cosmology. Cosmology refers to the study that...