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A Persisting Equivalence

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In several articles, McCall and Lowe have claimed that endurantism and perdurantism are “equivalent.” From this, they conclude that there is no fact of the matter as to whether we live in an endurantist world or in a perdurantist world. In this paper, I use the notion of Morita equivalence to show in which precise sense, McCall and Lowe's ...
Joshua Babic
wiley   +1 more source

Mario Bunge’s methodological materialism: a systematic approach to metaphysics and science

Семиотические исследования
The article is devoted to the analysis of Mario Bunge's philosophical system, encompassing his concept of materialistic metaphysics, scientific methodology and techno-ethics.
Valerii Aleksandrovich Moskvitin
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Validation of Health Belief Model and Theory of Planned Behaviour Constructs for Predicting Malaria Vaccine Acceptance in Ghana: A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling Approach

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim This study examines the predictive power of constructs from the health belief model (HBM) and theory of planned behaviour (TPB) in explaining malaria vaccine acceptance in Ghana in the post‐COVID‐19 era, while also assessing the reliability of these constructs within this context.
Michael Sarfo, Michael Snowden, Jamie P. Halsall   +2 more
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The Formal Invariance of Fractal Operators Under Laplace Transform

Fractal and Fractional
This paper focuses on the invariant properties of fractal operators and aims to achieve the axiomatization of the theory of fractal operators. Building upon the derivative and integral theorems of the Laplace transform, we redefine the time differential ...
Yajun Yin, Tianyi Zhou, Ruiheng Jiang, Chaoqian Luo, Gang Peng   +4 more
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The Long Shadow of Karl Weierstraß Over the Calculus of Variations

Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT At first glance, it appears that the contents of Karl Weierstraß's (1815–1897) lecture courses on the calculus of variations were made available to the public only in the seventh volume of his Mathematische Werke, and thus not until 30 years after his death.
Peter Ullrich
wiley   +1 more source

Taking Risks, With and Without Probabilities

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 576-592, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Some hold that expected utility is too restrictive in the way it handles risk. Risk‐weighted expected utility is an alternative that allows decision‐makers to have a range of attitudes toward probabilistic risk. It holds that any attitude within this range is instrumentally rational, since these attitudes represent different, equally good ...
Lara Buchak
wiley   +1 more source

The Axiomatic Minimum}

, 2021
Here, I produce the mathematically-precise equivalent of the natural intuition that physics is the product and culmination of the scientific method. To do so, I first produce a model of science using mathematics, then I use it to derive the laws of physics by applying the (formalized) scientific method to the model.
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Structure and Computation

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 593-605, September 2026.
ABSTRACT It is a truism of mathematics that differences between isomorphic number systems are irrelevant to arithmetic. This truism is deeply rooted in the modern axiomatic method and underlies most strands of arithmetical structuralism, the view that arithmetic is about some abstract number structure.
Balthasar Grabmayr
wiley   +1 more source

Arbitrary Arrow Update Logic with Common Knowledge is neither RE nor co-RE [PDF]

Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2017
Arbitrary Arrow Update Logic with Common Knowledge (AAULC) is a dynamic epistemic logic with (i) an arrow update operator, which represents a particular type of information change and (ii) an arbitrary arrow update operator, which quantifies over arrow ...
Louwe B. Kuijer
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Axiomatic Cohesion

Theory and Applications of Categories, 2007
Summary: The nature of the spatial background for classical analysis and for modern theories of continuum physics requires more than the partial invariants of locales and cohomology rings for its description. As Maxwell emphasized, this description has various levels of precision depending on the needs of investigation.
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