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Gestures, Diagrams, and the Craft of Musical Composition
Based on recent developments in the mathematical theory of music, philosophy of mathematics, and gesture studies, this paper builds a pragmaticist...
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Cardinal Composition
The thesis of Weak Unrestricted Composition says that every pair of objects has a fusion. This thesis has been argued by Contessa (Analysis...
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Do Arguments for Global Warming Commit a Fallacy of Composition?
This essay begins with a brief description of my approach to the study of argumentation and fallacies which is empirical, historical-textual,...
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Multityped Abstract Categorial Grammars and Their Composition
This article introduces multityped abstract categorial grammars and show that a suitable composition operation can be defined.
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Dao as a Unified Composition or Plurality: A Nihilism Perspective
This article departs from a mereological conceptualization of the Daoist metaphysical system in the Daode**g 道德經. I discuss what parthood status...
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The ubiquity of the fallacy of composition in cognitive enhancement and in education
Research into cognitive enhancement is highly controversial, and arguments for and against it have failed to identify the logical fallacy underlying...
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Composition as Identity and the Logical Roots of Leibniz’s Nominalism
The paper deals with Leibniz’s ontology and the metaphysics of the aggregate. Concerning the ontology of aggregates, the main aim is to provide a new...
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Analyzing the composition of the editorial boards in high-impact medical ethics journals: a survey study
BackgroundThe underrepresentation of scholarly works from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in academic literature is a documented concern,...
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Relational quantum mechanics, causal composition, and molecular structure
Franklin and Seifert (2021) argue that solving the measurement problem of quantum mechanics (QM) also answers a question central to the philosophy of...
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Analogy and Composition in Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry The Case of Aluminium
Around fifteen years before the chemical substance alumina (aluminium oxide) could be decomposed in the laboratory, it was identified as a compound...
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Early Buddhist Texts: Their Composition and Transmission
This article discusses the composition and transmission of early Buddhist texts with specific reference to sutras. After briefly summarizing the main...
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From the Critique of Collective Action Theories to the Study of Political Class Composition
The development of Marxist concepts of social conflict along with their connection with class struggle has been scarce and fragmentary. This vacant...
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Vasubandhu’s Refutation of the Aggregate of Atoms: a Reading Inspired by Van Inwagen’s Objection to Series-Style Answers to the Special Composition Question
Vasubandhu’s arguments against atomism in Viṃśikā stanzas 12–13 are not strong enough to disprove that atoms are simple partless substances. However,...
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Semantic Shifts in Epic Composition (On the ‘Modal’ Poetics of the Mahābhārata)
The subject of this paper is poetical inversion, and it will be studied in the first ten chapters of Book Ten of The Mahābhārata.I The kind of...
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An epistemological problem for minimalist views about composition
Some philosophers accept what I call minimalist views about composition. They either deny that composition ever occurs, or they only allow that...
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Edit by Number: Looking at the Composition of the Huainanzi, and Beyond
The progressive dominance of historical-critical methods in the reading of ancient Chinese classics has led scholars to privilege micro levels of...
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Corporeal composition
What is it for an individual thing in the natural world—a rock, a mouse, a family or a planet—to be made of other things—crystals, organs, animals,...
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Composition Under Distributive Natural Transformations: Or, When Predicate Abstraction is Impossible
Natural language semanticists have often found it useful to assume that all expressions denote sets of values. The approach is most prominent in the...
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Composition as identity, now with all the pluralities you could want
According to ‘composition as identity’ (CAI), a composite object is identical to all its parts taken together. Thus, a plurality of composite objects...
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Incremental Composition in Distributional Semantics
Despite the incremental nature of Dynamic Syntax (DS), the semantic grounding of it remains that of predicate logic, itself grounded in set theory,...
