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Massimiliano Carrara
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Open AccessA New Game Theoretic Semantics (GTS-2) for Weak Kleene Logics
Hintikka’s game theoretical approach to semantics has been successfully applied also to some non-classical logics. A recent example is Başkent (A game theoretical semantics for logics of nonsense, 2020. ...
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Open AccessParaconsistent Belief Revision: An Algebraic Investigation
This paper offers a logico-algebraic investigation of AGM belief revision based on the logic of paradox ( \(\mathrm {LP}\) ...
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Patient Similarity in the Era of Precision Medicine: A Philosophical Analysis
According to N. Goodman, the Carnapian notion of similarity is useless in science and without interest for philosophy. In our paper we suggest that, given the current role that the notion of similarity has in ...
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Open AccessOn Cotnoir’s two notions of proper parthood
A.J. Cotnoir has argued that we should distinguish between two notions of proper parthood: outstripped part and non-identical part. Outstripped parthood is an asymmetric relation, but non-identical parthood is...
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Open AccessThere is overlap in letters: a mereological definition of word types
Classical mereology seems unable to characterise the identity conditions of word types. For example, the same letter types ordered differently result in different word types; but mereological fusions of the sa...
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Open AccessThe Grounding of Identities
A popular stance amongst philosophers is one according to which, in Lewis’ words, “identity is utterly simple and unproblematic”. Building from Lewis’ famous passage on the matter, we reconstruct, and then cri...
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Mereology and Identity
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Contingent composition as identity
When the necessity of identity (NI) is combined with composition as identity (CAI), the contingency of composition (CC) is at risk. In the extant literature, either NI is seen as the basis for a refutation of ...
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We don’t know we don’t know: asserting ignorance
The pragmatic logic of assertions shows a connection between ignorance and (informal) decidability. In it, we can express pragmatic factual ignorance and first-order ignorance as well as some of their variants...
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Identity criteria: an epistemic path to conceptual grounding
Are identity criteria grounding principles? A prima facie answer to this question is positive. Specifically, two-level identity criteria can be taken as principles related to issues of identity among objects of a...
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DLEAC: A Dialetheic Logic with Exclusive Assumptions and Conclusions
This paper proposes a new dialetheic logic, a Dialetheic Logic with Exclusive Assumptions and Conclusions ( \(\mathsf {DLEAC}\) ...
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A Notion of Logical Concept Based on Plural Reference
In To be is to be the object of a possible act of choice (Studia Logica, 96, 289–313, 2010) the authors defended Boolos’ thesis that plural quantification is part of logic. To this purpose, plural quantification ...
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A Multimodal Pragmatic Analysis of the Knowability Paradox
The Knowability Paradox starts from the assumption that every truth is knowable and leads to the paradoxical conclusion that every truth is also actually known. Knowability has been traditionally associated with ...
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The Mereological Foundation of Megethology
In Mathematics is megethology (Lewis (1993). Philosophia Mathematica, 1(1), 3–23) David K. Lewis proposes a structuralist reconstruction of classical set theory based on mereology. In order to formulate suitable ...
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Composition, Indiscernibility, Coreferentiality
According to strong composition as identity (CAI), the logical principles of one–one and plural identity can and should be extended to the relation between a whole and its parts. Otherwise, composition would ...
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Computability, Finiteness and the Standard Model of Arithmetic
This paper investigates the question of how we manage to single out the natural number structure as the intended interpretation of our arithmetical language. Horsten (2012) submits that the reference of our arith...
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Grounding Megethology on Plural Reference
In Mathematics is megethology (Lewis, Philos Math 1:3–23, 1993) Lewis reconstructs set theory combining mereology with plural quantification. He introduces megethology, a powerful framework in which one can formu...
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Paradox and Logical Revision. A Short Introduction
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Denial and Disagreement
We cast doubts on the suggestion, recently made by Graham Priest, that glut theorists may express disagreement with the assertion of $...
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A Dialetheic Interpretation of Classical Logic
According to classical logic, the acceptance of a dialetheia, a proposition that is both true and false, entails trivialism the output that every sentence is true. One way to accept dialetheias but avoid triviali...
