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Determinism, Laws of Nature and the Consequence Argument
ManuscritoScott Sehon (2011) argues that the conception of determinism employed in the Consequence Argument is implausible because it rules out the logical possibility of the laws of nature being violated. Sehon says, for instance, that determinism is incompatible
Pedro Merlussi
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Studies in Logic, Grammar and RhetoricIn this article, we will discuss the concept of logical determinism and arguments in favor of determinism based on the law of excluded middle and the principle of causality.
Surowik Dariusz
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Intuitionism and Logical Determinism
Studies in Logic, Grammar and RhetoricIn this article, we will consider the application of intuitionistic tense logics to construct logical systems in which the thesis of logical determinism cannot be expressed.
Surowik Dariusz
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Determinism, fatalism, neccesity: Cicero against the Stoics [PDF]
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2015 In the first part of this paper, I analyze the logical-epistemological categories that Cicero uses to address the problem of determinism, and in particular, the distinction between causal and logical-epistemological necessity.
Salvador Mas
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Technological Determinism and Democracy in the Governance of the Logical Layer of the Internet [PDF]
, 2022 The article focuses on the relationship between the Internet Governance and democracy on the governance of the logical layer of the Internet.Due to the impactful role and the normative effects of standards, protocols and technical decisions for the ...
Vasiliki Koniakou
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A logical formalism for the representation of determiners [PDF]
Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics -, 1986 Determiners play an important role in conveying the meaning of an utterance, but they have often been disregarded, perhaps because it seemed more important to devise methods to grasp the global meaning of a sentence, even if not in a precise way. Another problem with determiners is their inherent ambiguity.In this paper we propose a logical formalism ...
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Formal Theodicy: Religious Determinism and the Logical Problem of Evil [PDF]
, 2020 Edward Nieznański developed two logical systems to deal with the problem of evil and to refute religious determinism. However, when formalized in first-order modal logic, two axioms of each system contradict one another, revealing that there is an ...
Da Silva, Gesiel B., Bertato, Fábio
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Who's afraid of determinism? [PDF]
, 2014 Because of the idealizations involved in the ideas of a total state of the world and of all the laws of nature, the thesis of all-encompassing determinism is unverifiable.
Stevenson, Leslie, Leslie Stevenson
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Nagoya Mathematical Journal, 1968 Let L be a fixed language and K be a set of structures related to L. A sentence in L is said to be K-valid if and only if for every structure in K,
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Geometric and physical interpretation of the action principle
Scientific Reports, 2023 We give a geometric interpretation for the principle of stationary action in classical Lagrangian particle mechanics. In a nutshell, the difference of the action along a path and its variation effectively “counts” the possible evolutions that “go through”
Gabriele Carcassi, Christine A. Aidala
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