'Journal4': Post-poll violence in WB (in Bengali) পশ্চিমবঙ্গে ভোট-পরবর্তী সন্ত্রাস: তৃষিত এ মরু
In the backdrop of continuing political terror in WB, what can the political scenario be like in the near future?
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Inference Belief and Interpretation in Science
INFERENCE BELIEF AND INTERPRETATION IN SCIENCE This monograph of mine inquires into the deeply cognitive roots of human scientific quest. The process of making scientific inferences is continuous with the day-to-day inferential activity of individuals, and is predominantly inductive in nature. Inductive inference, which is fallible, exploratory, and open- ended, is of essential relevance in our incessant efforts at making sense of a complex and uncertain world around us, and covers a vast range of cognitive activities, among which scientific exploration constitutes the pinnacle. Inductive inference has a personal aspect to it, being rooted in the cognitive unconscious of individuals, which has recently been found to be of paramount importance in a wide range of complex cognitive processes. One other major aspect of the process of inference making, including the making of scientific inferences, is the role of a vast web of beliefs lodged in the human mind, as
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