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Theories of Concepts and Contradiction Acceptance
2014The paper discusses the Heterogeneity Hypothesis about concepts (Machery, 2009) and the empirical support on which it is based. Two experiments are presented which investigate one of the main predictions of the theory, i.e., the fact that people should be willing to accept apparently contradictory sentences about the same ...
ZARL, FRANCESCA, FUM, DANILO
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On a recent theory of rational acceptance
Philosophical Studies, 1983In two recent articles, Mark Kaplan has offered a new theory of rational acceptance within the framework of Bayesian epistemology. In one of them (1981a), he discusses some of the foundational difficulties which confront both analyses of the concept of acceptance and normative theories of acceptance, and he offers an analysis of the concept.
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Towards an Acceptable Theory of Acceptance: Partial Structures Inconsistency and Correspondence
1993In the second appendix to his ‘Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics’ (Post 1971), Heinz Post notes that Acceptance, rather than rejection, is the more remarkable exercise of scientific judgment. (p. 253).
Newton C. A. Costa, Steven French
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Philosophy of Science, 1993
Neurath's proposal for the form of protocol statements explicates the multiple embedding of a singular sentence as specifying different conditions for the acceptance of such a sentence as a bona fide scientific datum. Before theories are accepted or rejected in the light of such evidence, however, a further condition must be met which Neurath did not ...
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Neurath's proposal for the form of protocol statements explicates the multiple embedding of a singular sentence as specifying different conditions for the acceptance of such a sentence as a bona fide scientific datum. Before theories are accepted or rejected in the light of such evidence, however, a further condition must be met which Neurath did not ...
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Acceptance of inheritance: theory and practice
Scientific works "Adilet"This article describes the mechanism for acquiring an inheritance in Kazakhstani legislation, which is based on the system of acceptance of inheritance. It is determined that acceptance of inheritance is a subjective civil right of the heir. In the event of its implementation, acceptance of inheritance becomes a transaction. It is established, firstly,
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On the Epistemic Acceptability of Conspiracy Theories
2014It is often claimed that political conspiracy theories are of limited falsifiability [1]. Government officials’ public statements that contradict a conspiracy theory can be interpreted as signs that support the theory. Almost all potentially falsifying evidence can be construed to be actually supporting evidence.
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