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Modal Logic vs. Ontological Argument [PDF]

, 2012
The contemporary versions of the ontological argument that originated from Charles Hartshorne are formalized proofs based on unique modal theories. The simplest well-known theory of this kind arises from the b system of modal logic by adding two extra ...
Biłat, Andrezej
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Josephson junctions and dark energy [PDF]

, 2006
In a recent paper Beck and Mackey [astro-ph/0603397] argue that the argument we gave in our paper [Phys. Lett. B 606, 77 (2005)] to disprove their claim that dark energy can be discovered in the Lab through noise measurements of Josephson junctions is ...
Beck, Beck, Callen, Jetzer, Norbert Straumann, Philippe Jetzer   +5 more
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Ginet's principle: Our freedom is the freedom to add to the given past [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
This paper is a defense of the principle: All the worlds that are might-worlds in the world x are worlds that share some of their momentary states with x (A (possible) world y is a might-world in the world x if it is true in x that if someone were to do ...
van Inwagen Peter
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Explanation, confirmation, and Hempel's paradox [PDF]

, 2017
Hempel’s Converse Consequence Condition (CCC), Entailment Condition (EC), and Special Consequence Condition (SCC) have some prima facie plausibility when taken individually.
Roche, William
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Toulmin's Model of Argument and the Question of Relativism (J. A. Blair Prize, 2005)

Informal Logic, 2004
In The Uses of Argument, Toulmin proposed a distinction between fielddependent and field-invariant standards for argument appraisal that gave rise to a relativistic understanding of his theory.
Lilian Bermejo-Luque
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Inference Claims

Informal Logic, 2011
A conclusion follows from given premisses if and only if an acceptable counterfactual-supporting covering generalization of the argument rules out, either definitively or with some modal qualification, simultaneous acceptability of the premisses and non ...
David Hitchcock
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Revisiting Born’s Rule through Uhlhorn’s and Gleason’s Theorems

Entropy, 2022
In a previous article we presented an argument to obtain (or rather infer) Born’s rule, based on a simple set of axioms named “Contexts, Systems and Modalities" (CSM).
Alexia Auffèves, Philippe Grangier
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First-order modal logic in the necessary framework of objects [PDF]

, 2016
I consider the first-order modal logic which counts as valid those sentences which are true on every interpretation of the non-logical constants. Based on the assumptions that it is necessary what individuals there are and that it is necessary which ...
Fritz, Peter
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Unsupervised stance detection for arguments from consequences [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
Social media platforms have become an essential venue for online deliberation where users discuss arguments, debate, and form opinions. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised method to detect the stance of argumentative claims with respect to a topic.
Kobbe, Jonathan, Hulpus, Ioana, Stuckenschmidt, Heiner   +2 more
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The Case of the Missing Premise

Informal Logic, 1995
This paper suggests that the flaw in the enthymeme approach to argument analysis is in the requirement, as I come to formulate it, that an argument be restated as a premises-and-conclusion sequence.
Don S. Levi
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