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Game Semantics, Quantifiers and Logical Omniscience
Logical omniscience states that the knowledge set of ordinary rational agents is closed for its logical consequences. Although epistemic logicians in general judge this principle unrealistic, there is no consensus on how it should be restrained. The challenge is conceptual: we must find adequate criteria for separating obvious logical consequences ...
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Contextualising Hohfeld's Analysis of Rights: Legal Relations and the Rule of Law
Abstract More than a century ago, W. N. Hohfeld offered the most influential analysis of rights to date. However, his classification has rarely been received without criticism. Many of the objections to his framework stem from the longstanding debate between interest and will theories of rights.
Paulo Baptista Caruso MacDonald
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Abstract This paper argues for the significance of Kaplan's logic LD in two ways: first, by looking at how logic got along before we had LD, and second, by using it to bring out the similarity between David Hume's thesis that one cannot deduce claims about the future on the basis of premises only about the past, and the so‐called "essentiality" of the ...
Gillian Russell
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ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to discuss the potentialities of open‐ended board games for story generation in educational contexts. We have analysed story prototypes created through D‐Stories, a collective storytelling game designed for this project.
Antoni Roig Telo +2 more
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Information, Agency, and the Trinity
Theology and science has, for traditional sciences, been a two way street. It should be no surprise then that foundational issues in semantic information theory and AI may provide insights into religious dogmas: in this case, the Christian doctrine of ...
George M. Coghill
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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Abstract This article examines the doctrine of Christ’s two states of humiliation and exaltation in Herman Bavinck’s and John Calvin’s thought, with the aim of illuminating Bavinck’s use of Calvin. The article begins by exploring Calvin’s use of the two states and argues that his treatment of Christ’s descent into hell is an important though ...
Sarah Killam Crosby
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From Potential to Actual Knowledge: A New Framework in Probabilistic Epistemic Logic
In this paper we address the issue of improbable knowledge within probabilistic epistemic logic. This problem occurs when an agent possesses knowledge of a certain proposition despite the evidential probability of that knowledge being exceedingly low ...
Wójcik Arkadiusz
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Abstract Ancient ideas about human transformation and divinization have resurfaced in our cultural moment. Artificial intelligence and biotechnology are raising afresh questions about what it means to be human and divine. The Oxford Handbook of Deification has arrived on the scene as its subject matter has splashed out of theological discourse into the
Andrew J. Byers
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“Internal” Problems of Normative Theories of Thinking and Reasoning
This paper provides moderate criticism of so-called normative theories of thinking and reasoning. The discussion focuses on the problems of idealization, adequacy, inconsistent yet non-trivial logics, logical omniscience etc.
Piotr Urbańczyk
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