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Roberto Poli, Liliana Albertazzi, Sandro Bertoni, Luigi Dappiano… in Axiomathes (1993)

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Massimiliano Carrara, Luigi Dappiano in Axiomathes (1993)

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Jan Woleński, Massimiliano Carrara, Roberto Poli, Luigi Dappiano… in Axiomathes (1994)

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Jan Woleński, Massimiliano Carrara in Axiomathes (1995)

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Wiktor Hertrich, Roberto Poli, Massimiliano Carrara in Axiomathes (1996)

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Ontological Commitment And Reconstructivism

Some forms of analytic reconstructivism take natural language (and common sense at large) to be ontologically opaque: ordinary sentences must be suitably rewritten or paraphrased before questions of ontologica...

Massimiliano Carrara, Achille C. Varzi in Erkenntnis (2001)

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On Biological Identity

In our paper, we propose a relativisticand metaphysically neutral identity criterionfor biological entities. We start from thecriterion of genidentity proposed by K. Lewinand H. Reichenbach. Then we enrich it ...

Giovanni Boniolo, Massimiliano Carrara in Biology and Philosophy (2004)

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Symposium on “Cognition and Rationality: Part I”

Massimiliano Carrara, Paolo Cherubini, Pierdaniele Giaretta in Mind & Society (2006)

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Cardinality and Identity

P.T. Geach has maintained (see, e.g., Geach (1967/1968)) that identity (as well as dissimilarity) is always relative to a general term. According to him, the notion of absolute identity has to be abandoned and re...

Massimiliano Carrara, Elisabetta Sacchi in Journal of Philosophical Logic (2007)

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Ontology for information systems: artefacts as a case study

The goal of the paper is to analyse some specific features of a very central concept for top-level ontologies for information systems: i.e. the concept of artefact. Specifically, we analyse the relation to be a c...

Massimiliano Carrara, Marzia Soavi in Mind & Society (2008)

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To Be is to Be the Object of a Possible Act of Choice

Aim of the paper is to revise Boolos’ reinterpretation of second-order monadic logic in terms of plural quantification ([4], [5]) and expand it to full second order logic. Introducing the idealization of plural a...

Massimiliano Carrara, Enrico Martino in Studia Logica (2010)

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Towards a Formal Account of Identity Criteria

Identity criteria are used to confer ontological respectability: Only entities with clearly determined identity criteria are ontologically acceptable. From a logical point of view, identity criteria should mi...

Massimiliano Carrara, Silvia Gaio in Between Logic and Reality (2012)

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A New Logic of Technical Malfunction

Aim of the paper is to present a new logic of technical malfunction. The need for this logic is motivated by a simple-sounding philosophical question: Is a malfunctioning corkscrew, which fails to uncork bottl...

Bjørn Jespersen, Massimiliano Carrara in Studia Logica (2013)

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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...

Massimiliano Carrara, Enrico Martino in Recent Trends in Philosophical Logic (2014)

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Artifact Kinds, Identity Criteria, and Logical Adequacy

An important aspect of the alleged logical inadequacy of identity criteria for artifact kinds is the lack of transitivity. This formal problem can be eliminated through the use of a tool allowing for the gradu...

Massimiliano Carrara, Silvia Gaio, Marzia Soavi in Artefact Kinds (2014)