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HUME’S PRINCIPLE, BAD COMPANY, AND THE AXIOM OF CHOICE
The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2022 AbstractOne prominent criticism of the abstractionist program is the so-called Bad Company objection. The complaint is that abstraction principles cannot in general be a legitimate way to introduce mathematical theories, since some of them are inconsistent. The most notorious example, of course, is Frege’s Basic Law V.
Roberts, Sam, Shapiro, Stewart
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What We Know about Numbers and Propositions and How We Know It [PDF]
Organon F, 2020 The paper sketches and defends two instances of the strategy Let N’s be whatever they have to be to explain our knowledge of them—one in which N’s are natural numbers and one in which N’s are propositions.
Scott Soames
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Una posible respuesta de Ch. S. Peirce al problema tradicional de la inducción
Theoría Revista del Colegio de Filosofía, 2018 Ch. S. Peirce recognizes induction as one of the three moments of the scientific method. This means that he thought that the induction was, in a way, justified.
Ricardo Vázquez Gutiérrez
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The second analogy and the kantian answer to Hume: why “cause” has to be an a priori concept
Revista de Filosofia, 2012 The main goal of Kant’s Second Analogy of Experience was to answer Humean objectionsconcerning the aprioricity of the principle of “every-event-some-cause”.
Andrea Faggion
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A transcendental analysis of mathematics: The abstract nature of mathematical knowledge [PDF]
Кантовский сборник, 2015 Kant’s transcendental philosophy (transcendentalism) focuses on both the human method of cognition in general [CPR, B25] and certain types of cognition aimed at justifying their objective significance. This article aims to explicate Kant’s understanding (
Katrechko S. L.
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Hume's Correlationism: On Meillassoux, Necessity and Belief
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2013 The article argues that Meillassoux's 'After Finitude' underestimates the nature and profundity of Hume's sceptical challenge; it neglects the fact that Hume's scepticism concerns final causes (and agrees fundamentally with Bacon and Descartes in this ...
Paul O'Mahoney
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Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2019 Sympathy is a powerful principle in human nature, which can change our passions, sentiments and ways of thinking. For the 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume, sympathy is a working mechanism accountable for a wide range of communication: the ...
Natalia Borza
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A transcendental analysis of mathematics: The constructive nature of mathematics [PDF]
Кантовский сборник, 2016 Kant’s transcendental philosophy (transcendentalism) focuses on both the human method of cognition in general [CPR, B 25] and certain types of cognition aimed at justifying their objective significance. This article aims to explicate Kant’s understanding
Katrechko S.
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The ontological implications of neo-Fregeanism
Daimon, 2016 Neo-Fregeanism is a combination of two ideas: logicism, according to which arithmetic can be derived from logic plus definitions, and Platonism, according to which there are mathematical objects (which are abstract).
María de Ponte
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The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2011 In this note we derive Robinson’s Arithmetic from Hume’s Principle in the context of very weak theories of classes and relations.
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