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Coordination, Convention and the Constitution of Physical Objects
In this paper, I address the significance of the key notions of coordination, constitution and convention. My aim in so doing is to provide a better...
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Minimisation in Logical Form
Recently, two apparently quite different duality-based approaches to automata minimisation have appeared. One is based on ideas that originated from...
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Logical Argument in Vidyānandin’s Satya-śāsana-parīkṣā
The Jainas used variations of the pan-Indian sets of dialectical, epistemological, and logical principles in order to justify their ontological and...
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Formal Definition of Distinction
Laws of Form (LoF) defines distinction with two axioms and demonstrates a primary non-numerical arithmetic that grounds Boolean algebra (logic)....
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“The Only Strictly Correct Method of Philosophy”: Logical Analysis and Anti-Metaphysical Dialectic
The Tractatus revolves around the connection between two central topics – the preconditions of symbolic representation and the nature of...
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A New Halpern-Pearl Definition of Actual Causality by Appealing to the Default World
Halpern and Hitchcock appealed to the normality of witness worlds to solve the problem of isomorphism in the Halpern-Pearl definition of actual...
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Newton da Costa on Hypothetical Models in Logic and on the Modal Status of Logical Laws
This paper has three aims: first , to present in a clear way Newton da Costa’s argument against the necessity of logical laws. In order to do so, we...
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Logical Entropy
This book presents a new foundation for information theory where the notion of information is defined in terms of distinctions, differences,...
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Fairness and Risk: An Ethical Argument for a Group Fairness Definition Insurers Can Use
Algorithmic predictions are promising for insurance companies to develop personalized risk models for determining premiums. In this context, issues...
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Chapter 3 The Logical Foundations of Language Syntax Ontology
The paper formalizes the issue of logical syntax of categorial language, taking into account the dual ontological status of linguistic objects...
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Euclid’s Common Notions and the Theory of Equivalence
The “common notions” prefacing the Elements of Euclid are a very peculiar set of axioms, and their authenticity, as well as their actual role in the...
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Modus Ponens and the Logic of Decision
This article presents and discusses a prima facie counterexample to modus ponens. To appropriately theorize the case, I argue for conceptualizing the...
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Spinoza’s Notions of Essence
The topic of this chapter is Spinoza’s notion (or, more accurately, notions) of essence. I argue for a spectrum interpretation of essences in...
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Boolean Valued Models, Boolean Valuations, and Löwenheim-Skolem Theorems
Boolean-valued models for first-order languages generalize two-valued models, in that the value range is allowed to be any complete Boolean algebra...
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The Revaluation of the Transcendental by Giulio Preti and the Prospects of Logical Neorealism
The delineation of a critical empiricism with the related epistemic revaluation of the transcendental. Preti’s philosophical criticism and the...
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Common Notions and Immortality in Digby and the Early Leibniz
Discussions of the relation between confessionalization and early modern natural philosophy have tended to focus on the influence of certain...
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Quantum Logical Information Theory
The transition to density matrices in QM is facilitated by reformulating the ‘classical’ (i.e., non-quantum) results about logical entropy using...
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Logical ignorance and logical learning
According to certain normative theories in epistemology, rationality requires us to be logically omniscient. Yet this prescription clashes with our...
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Logical Predictivism
Motivated by weaknesses with traditional accounts of logical epistemology, considerable attention has been paid recently to the view, known as...
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Rescuing Implicit Definition from Abstractionism
Neo-Fregeans in the philosophy of mathematics hold that the key to a correct understanding of mathematics is the implicit definition of mathematical...