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Are Choices Binary?

open access: yesPhilosophical Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a natural view of the relationship between preference and choice: an option is choiceworthy if and only if no alternative is strictly preferred to it. I argue against this view on two grounds. First, it makes false predictions about which options are choiceworthy in games and in multidimensional choice settings.
Brian Weatherson
wiley   +1 more source

Super-De Morgan functions and free De Morgan quasilattices

open access: yesOpen Mathematics, 2014
Movsisyan Yuri, Aslanyan Vahagn
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifiers for a Modal Future

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Future auxiliaries present a challenge to the classical analysis of modal expressions as existential or universal quantifiers over a contextually provided set of possible worlds: these expressions come with a distinct modal flavor, but their interaction with negation and the fact that future judgments come in degrees of confidence is ...
Malte Willer
wiley   +1 more source

Guessing and Its Limits

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Guessing is the thesis that, roughly put, you may believe something iff it is among the most probable answers to a salient question. The thesis is motivated by observed features of felicitous belief reports when agents confront a question they aren't certain how to answer.
Helena Fang
wiley   +1 more source

Doomsday or Multiverse Bias

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bayesian epistemology faces serious challenges when dealing with self‐locating evidence. This paper argues that, given two modest assumptions about how confirmation should work (Patterning and Live Centers), Bayesianism faces an unavoidable dilemma.
Yoaav Isaacs
wiley   +1 more source

A Collapse Result in the Mereology of Properties

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I examine five principles about the metaphysics of properties, each of which has been defended in the literature: (1) the sum of properties is their corresponding conjunctive property, (2) the mereology of properties is classical, (3) properties are individuated by necessary co‐instantiation, (4) sums of objects belonging to different ...
Alejandro G. Di Rienzo
wiley   +1 more source

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