Postulates

Koch's Postulates say that the organism should be found in the bodies of those with the disease (and not in the bodies of those without the disease).

Raymond Griffith: How a Stomach Ache Changed the World Raymond Griffith 2010

Koch's Postulates say that the organism should be found in the bodies of those with the disease (and not in the bodies of those without the disease).

Raymond Griffith: How a Stomach Ache Changed the World 2010

These conditions mirror the requirements in medicine to prove disease causation that are known as Koch's Postulates: discover the causative agent and remove it; demonstrate the disease is effectively treated; then introduce the causative agent again and show it causes the disease.

Paul Abrams: Winning the Economic Argument: Show Opponents This Graph, and Ask Them to Explain 2009

* E.g., for those interested how Koch's Postulates work, to prove a person has gluten "allergy" causing malabsorption, a biopsy is taken of the duodenum demonstrating abnormalities; then gluten is withdrawn from the diet, the malabsorption improves, and a repeat biopsy shows a normal duodenum; then, gluten is added back, the symptoms return and a biopsy looks like the first one.

Paul Abrams: Winning the Economic Argument: Show Opponents This Graph, and Ask Them to Explain 2009

[For those interested in a medical example of Koch's Postulates, see below] *.

Paul Abrams: Winning the Economic Argument: Show Opponents This Graph, and Ask Them to Explain 2009

Postulates, not conclusions by Kyle Griffith on Sunday, Jun 28, 2009 at 10: 24: 20 PM

Germany, 1939; America, 2009; And Perverted Science 2009

One of a number of self-evident truths, or as Euclid called them, Postulates (sometimes Axioms) was that, “Two parallel lines are everywhere equidistant.”

The Lens with Which We View This Election 2008

One of a number of self-evident truths, or as Euclid called them, Postulates (sometimes Axioms) was that, “Two parallel lines are everywhere equidistant.”

The Lens with Which We View This Election 2008

Carnap, “Meaning Postulates”, in Meaning and Necessity

Bayesian Epistemology Talbott, William 2008

One of a number of self-evident truths, or as Euclid called them, Postulates (sometimes Axioms) was that, “Two parallel lines are everywhere equidistant.”

The Lens with Which We View This Election 2008