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The Contextuality-by-Default View of the Sheaf-Theoretic Approach to Contextuality
The Sheaf-Theoretic Contextuality (STC) theory developed by Abramsky and colleagues is a very general account of whether multiply overlap** subsets...
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Constraining Meanings With Contextuality
In this paper, we defend two claims. First, we argue that a notion of contextuality that has been formalized in physics and psychology is applicable...
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Duality, Intensionality, and Contextuality: Philosophy of Category Theory and the Categorical Unity of Science in Samson Abramsky
Science does not exist in vacuum; it arises and works in context. Ground-breaking achievements transforming the scientific landscape often stem from...
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Violating the KCBS Inequality with a Toy Mechanism
In recent years, much research has been devoted to exploring contextuality in systems that are not strictly quantum, like classical light, and many...
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Gödel, Escher, Bell: Contextual Semantics of Logical Paradoxes
Quantum physics exhibits various non-classical and paradoxical features. Among them are non-locality and contextuality (e.g. Bell’s theorem or the...
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The Relativity of Truth
In this chapter, I discuss the relativity of truth and define the concept of viewpoint-relative truth. The relativity of truth is perhaps the...
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Chapter 8 On Meta-knowledge and Truth
The paper deals with the problem of logical adequacy of language knowledge with cognition of reality. A logical explication of the concept of...
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Logical Journeys: A Scientific Autobiography
A short scientific biography emphasising the main phases of Abramsky’s research: duality theory and domains in logical form, game semantics,...
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Roots and (Re)sources of Value (In)definiteness Versus Contextuality
In Itamar Pitowsky’s reading of the Gleason and the Kochen-Specker theorems, in particular, his Logical Indeterminacy Principle, the emphasis is on...
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Compositionality in Context
Compositionality is a principle used in logic, philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, and computer science for assigning meanings to language...
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Examining the Role of Dignity in the Experience of Meaningfulness: a Process-Relational View on Meaningful Work
The objective of the present study is to examine the ethical grounding and process-relational nature of meaningful work through the relationship of...
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979). Übers.: Der Spiegel der Natur: Eine Kritik der Philosophie (1981)
Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature presents the most thorough and sustained critique of Western epistemology and foundationalism in the...
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The Ontology of Making: Being and Building
This chapter is about the ontologyOntology of the built environment. The task of study for this chapter is to investigate and examine the aspects of...
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Ab Esse ad Posse Non Valet Consequentia
While knowledge of mere possibilities is difficult to understand, knowledge of possibilities that are actual seems unproblematic (as far as we know...
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Léopold Sédar Senghor, African Philosophy and the Challenge of Interculturalism
Departing from the conviction that philosophy is at best hermeneutics, this essay argues that philosophy in our rapidly globalizing world should be...
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Quantum Physics and Cognitive Science from a Wittgensteinian Perspective: Bohr’s Classicism, Chomsky’s Universalism, and Bell’s Contextualism
Although Wittgenstein’s influence on logic and foundations of mathematics is well recognized, nonetheless, his legacy concerning other sciences is...
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Local causation
The counterfactual and regularity theories are universal accounts of causation. I argue that these should be generalized to produce local accounts of...
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A Contextualist Reconsideration of the “Happy Fish” Passage in the Zhuangzi and Its Implications for Relativism
The “happy fish” passage in the Zhuangzi 莊子 is often interpreted as endorsing some form of perspectivism which precludes objective claims of...
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Rationalistic Philosophizing
The difference between judgments grounded on taste and inclination and those rooted in variable situational and circumstantial factors is crucial...