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The young Leibniz's tentative acceptance of physical occasionalism

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 486-500, December 2024.
Abstract In this article, I revisit Leibniz's early views on physical causation, more specifically, his relation to physical occasionalism focusing on the period from 1668 to 1676. An in‐depth analysis of the Confession of Nature against the Atheists taken together with the Catholic Demonstrations, Leibniz's correspondence with Jakob Thomasius from ...
Christian Henkel
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Descartes and Skepticism [PDF]

, 2019
In this paper, I present an interpretation of Descartes that deemphasizes his skepticism. I analyze a selection of remarks from Descartes’ correspondence in which he makes judgments about the skeptics.
Sachdev, Raman
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The argument from undecidable dissension

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
The five modes of suspension of judgment outlined by Sextus Empiricus (HP XV 164-188) coordinate a complex argumentative strategy to prompt the general suspension of judgment.
Hugo Enrique Sánchez López
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Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value? [PDF]

, 2019
My purpose in this paper is to examine whether Pyrrhonian skepticism, as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus’s extant works, has practical or epistemic value.
Machuca, Diego E.
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The Function is Unsaturated [PDF]

, 2013
An investigation of what Frege means by his doctrine that functions (and so concepts) are 'unsaturated'. We argue that this doctrine is far less peculiar than it is usually taken to be.
Heck, Richard, May, Robert
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Non-Linear Network-Flow Model of Lukasiewicz’s Multivalue Logic [PDF]

, 2008
The paper presents a new network-flow interpretation of Łukasiewicz’s logic based on models with an increased effectiveness. The obtained results show that the presented network-flow models principally may work for multivalue logics with more than ...
Kojnov, Stefan, Sgurev, Vassil
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Hume’s Academic Scepticism: A Reappraisal of His Philosophy of Human Understanding [PDF]

, 1986
A philosopher once wrote the following words:If I examine the PTOLOMAIC and COPERNICAN systems, I endeavour only, by my enquiries, to know the real situation of the planets; that is, in other words, I endeavour to give them, in my conception, the same ...
Wright, John P.
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Some blunt instruments of dogmatic logic: Sextus Empiricus’s sceptical attack [PDF]

, 2017
Within a sort of conceptually homogeneous logical-epistemological arsenal that reflects a perspective marked by the dichotomy true/false, I would like to focus on one of the ‘logical’ sections of Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism, book II, namely:
Emidio Spinelli
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On generically dependent entities [PDF]

, 2016
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from IOS via the DOI in this record.An entity x is said to be generically dependent on a type F if x cannot exist without at least one entity of type F existing. In this paper several
Galton, A
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Skepticism and Disagreement [PDF]

, 2011
Though ancient Pyrrhonian skepticism is apparently based on disagreement, this aspect of skepticism has been widely neglected in contemporary discussion on skepticism.
Lammenranta, Markus
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