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... I.3.3). However, holistic theories are exempted from the anti-realist argument. Alternative characterisations of realism are also mentioned ...
... I.3.3). However, holistic theories are exempted from the anti-realist argument. Alternative characterisations of realism are also mentioned ...
Reasoning without Contradiction
... (Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Vol.2: §290). But surely, it might be said, we make frequent use of contradictions in reasoning. Well, in classical logic, we derive conclusions (in fact, any conclusion) from contradictions. But if a contradiction says nothing, and nothing follows from noth ...
... (Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Vol.2: §290). But surely, it might be said, we make frequent use of contradictions in reasoning. Well, in classical logic, we derive conclusions (in fact, any conclusion) from contradictions. But if a contradiction says nothing, and nothing follows from noth ...
Sidestepping the holes of holism
... rules have exceptions: situations that aren’t really governed by rules, but where rules are inferred from the system itself. However, such an approach tends to fall under a God’s eye point of view problem: how do we construct a viable theory with a possibly infinite structure that is not governed by ...
... rules have exceptions: situations that aren’t really governed by rules, but where rules are inferred from the system itself. However, such an approach tends to fall under a God’s eye point of view problem: how do we construct a viable theory with a possibly infinite structure that is not governed by ...
Platonism in mathematics (1935) Paul Bernays
... has been controversy up to the present, is that of the axiom of parallels. I think that the criticism which has been directed against that axiom is partly explained by the special place which it has in Euclid’s system. Various other axioms had been omitted, so that the parallels axiom stood out fro ...
... has been controversy up to the present, is that of the axiom of parallels. I think that the criticism which has been directed against that axiom is partly explained by the special place which it has in Euclid’s system. Various other axioms had been omitted, so that the parallels axiom stood out fro ...
Hirsch`s Attack on Ontologese
... his followers often express the intention to actually carry on their conversations in Ontologese when they are in the philosophy room. This would allow them to simulate traditional ontology by engaging in object-level disputes about what exists, the disputes taking place now in Ontologese. My advice ...
... his followers often express the intention to actually carry on their conversations in Ontologese when they are in the philosophy room. This would allow them to simulate traditional ontology by engaging in object-level disputes about what exists, the disputes taking place now in Ontologese. My advice ...
T - RTU
... from a set of true assertions is very important feature of first-order logic. These new expressions are correct in that they are consistent with all previous interpretations of the original set of expressions. ...
... from a set of true assertions is very important feature of first-order logic. These new expressions are correct in that they are consistent with all previous interpretations of the original set of expressions. ...
Review of Frank Jackson, From Metaphysics to Ethics: A
... told constructible from our folk-classificatory practice: we are finite beings; we do not work by magic; we give useful information to each other by means of the word "ratonal." There must, ...
... told constructible from our folk-classificatory practice: we are finite beings; we do not work by magic; we give useful information to each other by means of the word "ratonal." There must, ...