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On Kant's Definition of Analogy

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Prolegomena, Kant offers his official definition of analogy in terms of the perfect similarity of the relations holding for completely dissimilar pairs. Although interpreters neglect to reconstruct Kant's views on similarity, they often cite the Prolegomena definition and take it to characterise analogy as the identity of two relations.
Roberto Leone Zellini
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La constitución de objetos físicos en el Aufbau: Quine contra Carnap

Crítica, 2019
En este artículo se sugiere que el argumento de Quine contra el reduccionismo radical de Carnap (segundo dogma del empirismo) exhibe de manera incompleta el fundamento del proyecto de Carnap recogido en Der logische Aufbau der Welt.
Carlos Alberto Cardona Suárez
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What Voting Power Cannot Be

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 548-562, September 2026.
ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
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Brief von Rudolf Carnap an Wilhelm Schwaner

, 1913
BRIEF VON RUDOLF CARNAP AN WILHELM SCHWANER Brief von Rudolf Carnap an Wilhelm Schwaner ...
Carnap, Rudolf, Schwaner, Wilhelm
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Unstructured Purity

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 685-697, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Purity is the principle that fundamental facts only have fundamental constituents. In recent years, it has played a significant (if sometimes implicit) role in metaphysical theorizing. A philosopher will argue that a fact [p]$[p]$ contains a derivative entity and cite Purity as a reason to deny that [p]$[p]$ is fundamental. I argue that recent
Samuel Z. Elgin
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Überwindung der Metaphysik: Carnap und Heidegger [PDF]

, 2004
Im § 5 von "Die Überwindung der Metaphysik" beginnt Carnap unter dem Titel "metaphysische Scheinsätze" seine Diskussion der Heidegger-Beispiele (siehe Anmerkung 15) mit der Bemerkung, daß, obwohl wir "ebensogut Stellen aus irgendeinem anderen der ...
Friedman, Michael
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Another Solution to the Problem of Theoretical Terms [PDF]

, 2008
In this paper, a solution to the problem of theoretical terms is developed that is based on Carnap's doctrine of indirect interpretation of theoretical terms. This doctrine will be given a semantic, model-theoretic explanation that is not given by Carnap
Andreas, Holger
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Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the Paradox of Ineffability

Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT Wittgenstein and Heidegger are often cited as the greatest philosophers of the 20th Century. However, they are often taken to be very different kinds of philosopher, foundational to very different kinds of philosophy. While Wittgenstein is listed as one of the founders of the analytic tradition, Heidegger is listed as one of the founders of ...
David Lindeman
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The Concept of Categoricity

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 268-275, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
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A indução e a demarcação nas epistemologias de Karl Popper e de Rudolf Carnap [PDF]

, 2001
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas.A dissertação de mestrado A Indução e a Demarcação nas Epistemologias de Karl Popper e de Rudolf Carnap, apresenta, a partir do problema da indução em
Liston, Gelson
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