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If, "This sentence is false or meaningless," is non-prime, does it still pose the same revenge threat or a different one?
A non-prime disjunction is one that is true even if none of its disjuncts are; I've seen them come up at least in impossible-worlds talk, but now I'm wondering whether the basic "revenge"1 ...
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Is Kripke truth semantics related to LUB semantics of the Lambda Calculus?
Lambda Calculus semantics are defined over a formal structure of values that are partially ordered with respect a sort of "more defined" relation. The least element is the completely ...
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The different Egos in Husserl's Cartesian Meditations
So I thought I had understood the different 'Egos', mainly the distinction between the psychological and transcendental Ego, in the text. But throughout meditation 2 it becomes a bit confusing to me, ...
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What is the philosophical meaning of the Curry-Howard correspondence?
In 1934 Curry observes that the types of the combinators could be
seen as axiom-schemes for intuitionistic implicational logic.
In 1958 he observes that a certain kind of proof system, referred to as ...
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How does Fichte account for the existence of inter-subjective reality?
I have read many entries on Fichte online. There is never any reference to the question of the origin of inter-subjective reality. How do we apparently see the same world?
There does not seem to be ...
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Difference between Carnap and Quine's views
What are the main differences between Carnap and Quine's views regarding internal / external questions and realism? Quine called Carnap a Platoist, yet I don't understand why and what exactly the ...
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How does Husserl explain the common perception of an object?
Husserl considers that the intentional term, the noema, is within the immanence of intentional consciousness. (Here, I will not distinguish between noema and object, as some Fregean readings do.) In ...
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Does the usage of the words "gnosis" and "episteme" evidentiate a change over time in Ancient Greek philosophy?
"Episteme" is the word of choice in Plato, generally (although there are a few instances of "Gnosis" here and there)
By contrast, "Gnosis" is far more frequent among ...
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Which systems of formal logic do not admit vacuous truth for universal statements?
As I understand it there are systems of formal logic that do not admit vacuous truth for universal statements, what known systems of formal logic satisfy this constraint?
An example Kripke as I ...
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Is "Gewißheit" (certainty or so) accessible to everyone according to Kant?
So during an argument about the spirit of the enlightenment era, which massively influenced modern science, if I'm not mistaken, I was arguing with someone else about the following key question:
Is it ...
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How much philosophy is about terminology and human conceptions?
I see a lot of sentences like "If a tree fell and nobody hears it did it really fall", or many questions related to infinity. But each of this questions can be true or false according to ...
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Who is the original source of the quote, "People that cannot distinguish rocks from coconuts exhibit a pitiable but praiseworthy tendency to die?"
I'd like to find the author and source of a quote. I recall it as:
People that cannot distinguish rocks from coconuts exhibit a pitiable but praiseworthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind....
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Malthus's argument on population - Test 1, Q14, by Mark Shepherd
I took a practice test for a law exam and am having difficulty with understanding the logic behind a question. Apologies for the length, but I included the whole question and details for completeness.
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Has Spinoza been disproved by modern physics?
As I understood it Spinoza claims everything has Extension, it occupies space.
But in physics there are things called point particles which are zero dimensional, they don't occupy space.
So for ...
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Limits to Thomas Kuhn's theory of science
I'm wondering about the following two related questions. I would like references for further reading, counterpoints to my thoughts, and as much examples as possible. Many thanks in advance!
I'm a ...
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