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Predication and Hume's Conceivability Principle

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2022
AbstractIn this paper, I will make the case that an associative account of predication in Hume seems to allow for impossible predicative conceptions—that is, the conceiving of impossible states of affairs involving subjects instantiating properties or qualities—which violate his Conceivability Principle.
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Infinity, Choice, and Hume’s Principle

Journal of Philosophical Logic
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Hume’s nominalism and the Copy Principle

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2012
I consider some ways in which the Copy Principle (CP) and Hume's nominalism impinge on one another, arguing for the following claims. First, Hume's argument against indeterminate ideas isn't cogent even if the CP is accepted. But this does not vindicate Locke: the imagistic conception of ideas, presupposed by the CP, will force Locke to accept ...
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Is Hume’s Principle Analytic?

1997
Abstract The reduction, however, cuts both ways. It is not easy to see how Frege can avoid the seemingly frivolous argument that if his reduction is really successful, one who believes firmly in the synthetic character of arithmetic can conclude that Frege’s logic is thus proved to be synthetic rather than that arithmetic is proved to be
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Evaluation of Hume’s Principle

1960
We are now in a position to make a survey of the principle of the priority of impressions to ideas: to examine both the nature of the principle and the use which Hume makes of it as a criterion of meaning. To do the latter task completely, we must give a full account of Hume’s theory of knowledge.
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On the Harmless Impredicativity of N= (‘Hume’s Principle’)

1998
Abstract Michael Dummett’s Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics and its famous precursor, Frege: Philosophy of Language, contrast sharply in their estimates of Frege’s achievements in those respective subjects. The guiding conviction of Frege: Philosophy of Language was that even admirers of Frege’s writings have tended to a merely ...
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Interpreting Hume on the Causal Principle

2020
Abstract Chapter 4 supports by means of collateral evidence the claim that Hume woke Kant by attacking the principle of sufficient reason. First, it considers Treatise 1.3.3, though without supposing that Kant knew this text, in order to show that there, where Kemp Smith and others thought Hume was attacking the principle that every ...
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Hume’s “Principles” and Kant’s “Categories”

1975
One of Hume’s and Kant’s most central claims is to have proposed and worked out a new system of thought which solves the age-old baffling problems of philosophy in an entirely new way. The “principles” of human nature which Hume discovers in his philosophy correspond programmatically to the “categories” which Kant works out in his philosophy.
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A Justification for the Quantificational Hume Principle

Erkenntnis, 2019
In recent work Bruno Whittle has presented a new challenge to the Cantorian idea that there are different infinite cardinalities. Most challenges of this kind have tended to focus on the status of the axioms of standard set theory; Whittle’s is different in that he focuses on the connection between standard set theory and intuitive concepts related to ...
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Coleridge, Hume, and the Principles of Political Knowledge

Studies in Romanticism, 2010
Reserving then the expression "Idea" [Idee] for the objective or real Notion [Begriff] and distinguishing it from the Notion itself and still more from mere pictorial thought, we must also reject even more vigorously that estimate of the Idea according to which it is not anything actual, and true thoughts are said to be only ideas. --G. W.
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