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The Language L q
Now L q will be defined in a rigorous way.
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Analytic Method
According to heuristic philosophy of mathematics, one of the tasks of the philosophy of mathematics is to give an answer to the question: What is the...
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A Q methodology study on divergent perspectives on CRISPR-Cas9 in the Netherlands
BackgroundCRISPR-Cas9, a technology enabling modification of the human genome, is develo** rapidly. There have been calls for public debate to...
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Combining the best of two methodological worlds? Integrating Q methodology-based farmer archetypes in a quantitative model of agri-environmental scheme uptake
Increasing farmers’ acceptance and adoption of environmentally beneficial farming practices is essential for mitigating negative impacts of...
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‘Questions to Which There Are No Answers’: The Method Behind the Krishnamurti Dialogue
Although Krishnamurti did not recognize this reality, there is a distinctive and unparalleled method behind his explicit dialogue form. This method,...
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Women’s viewpoints on egg freezing in Austria: an online Q-methodology study
BackgroundEgg freezing has emerged as a technology of assisted reproductive medicine that allows women to plan for the anticipated loss of fertility...
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Dedekind and Wolffian Deductive Method
Dedekind’s methodology, in his classic booklet on the foundations of arithmetic, has been the topic of some debate. While some authors make it...
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Explaining universality: infinite limit systems in the renormalization group method
I analyze the role of infinite idealizations used in the renormalization group (RG hereafter) method in explaining universality across...
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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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Rawls’ Reflective Equilibrium as a Method of Justifying Moral Beliefs
It is undeniable that people have beliefs about what actions are morally right. These beliefs play an important role in guiding moral action. Is it...
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Recovering a Prior from a Posterior: Some Parameterizations of Jeffrey Conditioning
Given someone’s fully specified posterior probability distribution q and information about the revision method that they employed to produce q , what...
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Calculus as method or calculus as rules? Boole and Frege on the aims of a logical calculus
By way of a close reading of Boole and Frege’s solutions to the same logical problem, we highlight an underappreciated aspect of Boole’s work—and of...
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A Sound and Complete Tableaux Calculus for Reichenbach’s Quantum Mechanics Logic
In 1944 Hans Reichenbach developed a three-valued propositional logic (RQML) in order to account for certain causal anomalies in quantum mechanics....
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Which ‘Intensional Paradoxes’ are Paradoxes?
We begin with a brief explanation of our proof-theoretic criterion of paradoxicality—its motivation, its methods, and its results so far. It is a...
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An Interlude: Matters of Method
The discussion of everyday discourse developed so far makes two entirely new problems inescapable. The first is that in everyday discourse there is...
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Justifying method choice: a heuristic-instrumentalist account of scientific methodology
Scientific methods are heuristic in nature. Heuristics are simplifying, incomplete, underdetermined and fallible problem-solving rules that can...
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The Implicative Conditional
This paper investigates the implicative conditional, a connective intended to describe the logical behavior of an empirically defined class of...
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Justifying the System of Ezumezu Logic: An Analysis of the Problematic Structure of ‘q na abughi q’
Here, I hold conversations with the Nigerian philosopher Udo Etuk and the American philosopher W. V. O. Quine whose respective essays “The...
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Wittgenstein on Cantor’s Diagonal Method (Felix Mühlhölzer)
In CPM Hardy completely dispenses with set-theoretic language and cardinality questions do not turn up at all. Wittgenstein shows the same abstinence...