Cosmological Certainty
... accepted physical theory (Newtonian theory, classical electrodynamics, general relativity or quantum theory), it will always be possible, in the way indicated, to concoct endlessly many “patchwork quilt” theories that are better, according to (1) to (4). Such theories are, it may be objected, horrib ...
... accepted physical theory (Newtonian theory, classical electrodynamics, general relativity or quantum theory), it will always be possible, in the way indicated, to concoct endlessly many “patchwork quilt” theories that are better, according to (1) to (4). Such theories are, it may be objected, horrib ...
Semantic Paradoxes and Abductive Methodology The Relevance of the Liar University Press)
... come to the semantic paradoxes. Suppose that we are confronted with a Liar-like derivation of an absurd conclusion. We want a diagnosis which tells us where the derivation goes wrong. Roughly speaking, we want to know which step goes from true to false, or at least to untrue (this is only rough, in ...
... come to the semantic paradoxes. Suppose that we are confronted with a Liar-like derivation of an absurd conclusion. We want a diagnosis which tells us where the derivation goes wrong. Roughly speaking, we want to know which step goes from true to false, or at least to untrue (this is only rough, in ...
Against Fantology - Buffalo Ontology Site
... qualities on the one hand and their bearers on the other – which enjoy different ways of existing in reality. The neglect of necessary dependence relations in fantological circles flows from the fact that such distinct ways of being were themselves commonly neglected. This neglect in turn is one con ...
... qualities on the one hand and their bearers on the other – which enjoy different ways of existing in reality. The neglect of necessary dependence relations in fantological circles flows from the fact that such distinct ways of being were themselves commonly neglected. This neglect in turn is one con ...
the filipinos in their hybrid logical conversations: a preliminary study
... Gricean conversational implicature. When a boy sarcastically asks another boy, “You will again be in the 4th grade next school year?!” and the other one replied, “Anyway, you’re still in the 3rd grade!”, it is not a fallacy but in the context of teasing that most Filipinos are very acquainted with. ...
... Gricean conversational implicature. When a boy sarcastically asks another boy, “You will again be in the 4th grade next school year?!” and the other one replied, “Anyway, you’re still in the 3rd grade!”, it is not a fallacy but in the context of teasing that most Filipinos are very acquainted with. ...
lecture1-Science-Knowledge
... Cognition as Restructuring of an Agent in Interaction with the Environment Naturalized knowledge generation acknowledges the body as our basic cognitive instrument. All cognition is embodied cognition, in both microorganisms and humans (Gärdenfors, Stuart). In more complex cognitive agents, knowled ...
... Cognition as Restructuring of an Agent in Interaction with the Environment Naturalized knowledge generation acknowledges the body as our basic cognitive instrument. All cognition is embodied cognition, in both microorganisms and humans (Gärdenfors, Stuart). In more complex cognitive agents, knowled ...
The Semantics of Modal Propositional Logic Philosophy 431 Spring
... Marcus (axiomatic systems for quantified modal logic [QML]). ...
... Marcus (axiomatic systems for quantified modal logic [QML]). ...
Lecture 1
... and 1750s, there began to dawn the realization that many areas of scientific inquiry could not be forced into the inductivist framework. Franklin‟s Fluid Theory of Electricity, the Vibratory Theory of Heat, the Buffonian Theory of Organic Molecules and Phlogiston Chemistry, etc. that developed in th ...
... and 1750s, there began to dawn the realization that many areas of scientific inquiry could not be forced into the inductivist framework. Franklin‟s Fluid Theory of Electricity, the Vibratory Theory of Heat, the Buffonian Theory of Organic Molecules and Phlogiston Chemistry, etc. that developed in th ...
Epistemic Line of Explanation for Experimental
... to rigorous particular terms, is problematic because it would not consider as laws also important examples, like Galileo’s law of falling bodies, which refers, albeit implicitly, to a reference system: the Earth. For this reason, Hempel & Oppenheim (1948) distinguished between fundamental and derive ...
... to rigorous particular terms, is problematic because it would not consider as laws also important examples, like Galileo’s law of falling bodies, which refers, albeit implicitly, to a reference system: the Earth. For this reason, Hempel & Oppenheim (1948) distinguished between fundamental and derive ...
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY—a trend in contemporary philosophy with
... independently of its British stem. This was the case with the Polish school of analytic philosophy started by F. Brentano&s student, K. Twardowski. His program of philosophy was similar to Moore’s: philosophy’s first tasks was to present problems and the terms used in precise terms. Most of the repr ...
... independently of its British stem. This was the case with the Polish school of analytic philosophy started by F. Brentano&s student, K. Twardowski. His program of philosophy was similar to Moore’s: philosophy’s first tasks was to present problems and the terms used in precise terms. Most of the repr ...
The Emergence of Conventionalism - Philsci
... clusters of ideas, there is no consensus about the meaning of conventionalism in general, and Poincaré’s original version of it, in particular. Nonetheless, notions such as the under-determination (of theory), empirical equivalence (of incompatible theories), implicit definition, holism and conceptu ...
... clusters of ideas, there is no consensus about the meaning of conventionalism in general, and Poincaré’s original version of it, in particular. Nonetheless, notions such as the under-determination (of theory), empirical equivalence (of incompatible theories), implicit definition, holism and conceptu ...
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... came under strong condemnation when many social science researchers started to gather under the banners of structuralism, hermeneutics and phenomenology (Alvesson and Sköldberg, 2009). Critics expressed concern that the idea of doing research by following a scientific model can lead to the dismissal ...
... came under strong condemnation when many social science researchers started to gather under the banners of structuralism, hermeneutics and phenomenology (Alvesson and Sköldberg, 2009). Critics expressed concern that the idea of doing research by following a scientific model can lead to the dismissal ...
Informetrics needs a foundation in the theory of science
... first part of the 20th century: there is a universal and a priori scientific method; theories must be translatable into observational terms; the doctrines of behaviorism, operationalism, and methodological individualism; and the reduction of research objects into “variables”. Such norms can still be ...
... first part of the 20th century: there is a universal and a priori scientific method; theories must be translatable into observational terms; the doctrines of behaviorism, operationalism, and methodological individualism; and the reduction of research objects into “variables”. Such norms can still be ...
lecture1-Science
... Cognition as Restructuring of an Agent in Interaction with the Environment Naturalized knowledge generation acknowledges the body as our basic cognitive instrument. All cognition is embodied cognition, in both microorganisms and humans (Gärdenfors, Stuart). In more complex cognitive agents, knowled ...
... Cognition as Restructuring of an Agent in Interaction with the Environment Naturalized knowledge generation acknowledges the body as our basic cognitive instrument. All cognition is embodied cognition, in both microorganisms and humans (Gärdenfors, Stuart). In more complex cognitive agents, knowled ...
Evolution and Logic
... that our conception of mathematical objects comes from an adaption to the real mathematical world you believe in. I find this hard to imagine, but I already find naïve Platonism in itself a stance difficult to understand. Intuitionism, however, is more directly coherent with evolution since it puts ...
... that our conception of mathematical objects comes from an adaption to the real mathematical world you believe in. I find this hard to imagine, but I already find naïve Platonism in itself a stance difficult to understand. Intuitionism, however, is more directly coherent with evolution since it puts ...
Ethan Frome - Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
... intellectual in the middle part of the twentieth century, one’s training was primarily in Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Those thinkers set the philosophical framework of discussion for European intellectuals, and that framework goes a long way toward accounting for the rise of postmod ...
... intellectual in the middle part of the twentieth century, one’s training was primarily in Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Those thinkers set the philosophical framework of discussion for European intellectuals, and that framework goes a long way toward accounting for the rise of postmod ...
Philosophy 103 Linguistics 103 Introductory Logic
... Instead they are better understood as regulations governing rational thought. ...
... Instead they are better understood as regulations governing rational thought. ...
What should we make of Wittgenstein`s paradoxical claim at the end
... necessary connection between two events. However, is it really fit to call this a state of affairs? The philosophical theory does not assert that there is a necessary connection between two events - this ...
... necessary connection between two events. However, is it really fit to call this a state of affairs? The philosophical theory does not assert that there is a necessary connection between two events - this ...
A Critical Analysis of Empiricism
... sense perceptions are consistent with reality, but false if it is inconsistent. Hume opines that: The mind has never anything present to it but the perceptions and cannot possibly reach any experience of their connection with objects (Hume, 1966). Although Hume is an idealist his theory of sense per ...
... sense perceptions are consistent with reality, but false if it is inconsistent. Hume opines that: The mind has never anything present to it but the perceptions and cannot possibly reach any experience of their connection with objects (Hume, 1966). Although Hume is an idealist his theory of sense per ...
9/5/2006 - University of Pittsburgh
... historical significance—as the announcement, commencement, and first formulation of the fighting faith of a second Enlightenment. For the pragmatists, like their Enlightenment predecessors, reason is the sovereign force in human life. And for the later philosophes, as for the earlier, reason in that ...
... historical significance—as the announcement, commencement, and first formulation of the fighting faith of a second Enlightenment. For the pragmatists, like their Enlightenment predecessors, reason is the sovereign force in human life. And for the later philosophes, as for the earlier, reason in that ...
Synopsis - PhilPapers
... The clamour for scientific reasoning in philosophy is born out of a belief that scientific reasoning is infallible and universal. This paper argues that while scientific reasoning is infallible, it is so only with regard to the objects of knowledge in science. And because objects of knowledge are no ...
... The clamour for scientific reasoning in philosophy is born out of a belief that scientific reasoning is infallible and universal. This paper argues that while scientific reasoning is infallible, it is so only with regard to the objects of knowledge in science. And because objects of knowledge are no ...
Preface to Chapter 1, (on Realism and Mind as a Non
... A large part of the problem of "mind" and of "consciousness" lies in our inability even to properly and adequately frame it. This ambiguity is pretty much admitted by all parties. I believe it is a consequence of the lack of an adequate underlying conceptual framework, and not because of a lack of s ...
... A large part of the problem of "mind" and of "consciousness" lies in our inability even to properly and adequately frame it. This ambiguity is pretty much admitted by all parties. I believe it is a consequence of the lack of an adequate underlying conceptual framework, and not because of a lack of s ...
L13-421-15-11-16-15
... universally present in the phenomenon; meaning by the phenomenon, whatever is present at any time to the mind in any way. Normative science distinguishes what ought to be from what ought not to be, and makes many other divisions and arrangements subservient to its primary dualistic distinction. Meta ...
... universally present in the phenomenon; meaning by the phenomenon, whatever is present at any time to the mind in any way. Normative science distinguishes what ought to be from what ought not to be, and makes many other divisions and arrangements subservient to its primary dualistic distinction. Meta ...
Essay 54 Subject no. III The thesis stated in the quotation from
... consciousness. There are certain limits of this kind of Kantian model. These limits can be even logically proved, because the thesis that the majority of our beliefs about the reality are false or arbitral (as Postmodernists claim) is unclear. It is self-incoherent and should be abandoned in virtue ...
... consciousness. There are certain limits of this kind of Kantian model. These limits can be even logically proved, because the thesis that the majority of our beliefs about the reality are false or arbitral (as Postmodernists claim) is unclear. It is self-incoherent and should be abandoned in virtue ...
quine - University of St Andrews
... schemata are useful in many ways, and are typically used in formal proofs. They thus have their rightful place in the tool-kit of the logician. So it seems wise to bring them into the picture. Also, the definition of logical truth might become more perspicuous this way. ...
... schemata are useful in many ways, and are typically used in formal proofs. They thus have their rightful place in the tool-kit of the logician. So it seems wise to bring them into the picture. Also, the definition of logical truth might become more perspicuous this way. ...
Rosen Lutskanov
... considered for so long, and to build dynamical picture of the scientific problems and procedures in which terms the intellectual dynamics of conceptual change will become intelligible” (Toulmin 1979: 612). In the light of this task, which is intrinsically connected with the now prevailing philosophi ...
... considered for so long, and to build dynamical picture of the scientific problems and procedures in which terms the intellectual dynamics of conceptual change will become intelligible” (Toulmin 1979: 612). In the light of this task, which is intrinsically connected with the now prevailing philosophi ...