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The Abductivist Interpretation of Frege's Conception of Logic

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Frege is an abductivist about logic. For him, an acceptable logic must be sufficient—that is, it must be able to explain the relevant data, such as the fact that arithmetical laws are logical truths. Thus, Frege's logicism is an abductive project aimed at establishing the acceptability of his logic, Begriffsschrift.
Junyeol Kim
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Frege on the Fruitfulness of Definitions

Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2021
What, in Frege’s view, makes definitions fruitful? In Grundlagen §70, Frege offers an answer: Unfruitful definitions are definitions that “could just as well be omitted and leave no link missing in the chain of our proofs”.
Rachel Boddy
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‘Logic Is Transcendental’: Content, Isomorphism and Intentionality in Wittgenstein's Logic of Depiction

Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to most readers of the Tractatus, Wittgenstein's logic is empty or contentless, since it consists of tautologies that do not picture reality. This view, however, does not explain how and why Wittgenstein's ‘logic of depiction’ is transcendental (T, 4.015 and 6.13), especially given that Kant introduced transcendental logic through ...
Simone Nota
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Lessons from the history and philosophy of science regarding the Research Assessment Exercise [PDF]

, 2007
The Research Assessment Exercise (henceforth abbreviated to RAE) was introduced in 1986 by Thatcher, and was continued by Blair. So it has now been running for 21 years.
Gillies, D.
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O conceito de “número real” em Frege

Inquietude, 2021
O presente trabalho consiste numa discussão acerca do conceito de número real em Frege. Pretende-se explicar como Frege tenta definir os números reais, evidenciando a importância que a noção de “proporção de magnitude” desempenha nesta definição.
Caio Bismarck Silva Xavier
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Inquiry and Logical Form

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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Psychologism And Its History Revalued [PDF]

, 2009
A hundred years ago Frege had published most of his arguments against psychologism and Husserl was busy writing his Logical Investigations, which was to appear at the turn of the century and open with a long onslaught on psychologism.
Mulligan, Kevin
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On the proof complexity of Paris-harrington and off-diagonal ramsey tautologies [PDF]

, 2016
We study the proof complexity of Paris-Harrington’s Large Ramsey Theorem for bi-colorings of graphs and of off-diagonal Ramsey’s Theorem. For Paris-Harrington, we prove a non-trivial conditional lower bound in Resolution and a non-trivial upper bound ...
Carlucci, Lorenzo, Galesi, Nicola, Lauria, Massimo   +2 more
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(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
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