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Williamson's Master Argument on Vagueness

Synthese, 2004
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SENTENTIALISM AND BERKELEY'S MASTER ARGUMENT

The Philosophical Quarterly, 2005
Sententialism is the view that intensional positions in natural languages occur within clausal complements only. According to proponents of this view, intensional transitive verbs such as ‘want’, ‘seek’ or ‘resemble’ are actually propositional attitude verbs in disguise.
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Berkeley's Master Argument

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AbstractOne of Berkeley's best-known arguments for the view that there are no material objects is the so-called Master Argument. There are several good critical discussions of it. That invites the question: is there anything new to say? Well, it will be argued, there are a few things to say.
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On Davidson’s Master Argument

Respublica Literaria
The article discusses one of Donald Davidson’s arguments in defense of the causal approach, according to which the explanation of actions through reasons is a kind of causal explanation. Davidson insists that the qualification of certain desires and beliefs as reasons is not a sufficient condition for explaining an action. In order to really explain an
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Diodorus' “Master” argument: A semantic interpretation

Erkenntnis, 1980
La premisse de l'argument "dominateur" de Diodore Chronos ("Toute proposition vraie portant sur le passe est necessaire") est susceptible de plusieurs interpretations (par exemple: "Toute proposition eternellement vraie est necessaire" ou: "Toute proposition au passe est necessaire"). L'A.
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A Note on Boghossian's Master Argument

Philosophical Issues, 1995
In his paper in this volume, Crispin Wright cites an argument proffered by Paul Boghossian in his "The Status of Content" which puports to establish that the application of non-factualism to content discourse demonstrates the incoherence of non-factualism. Wright is sympathetic to Boghossian's conclusion, but not to his line of argument (see n.
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Chrysippus’S response to diodorus’S master argument

History and Philosophy of Logic, 1992
Chrysippus claims that some propositions perish. including some true conditionals whose consequent is impossible and antecedent is possible, to which he appeals against Diodorus’s Master Argument. On the standard interpretation. perished propositions lack truth values.
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The Master Argument Against Ontological Borders

2017
The “master argument” is given: No metaphysical sense can be made of ontological boundaries (ones that support individuation conditions) above and beyond feature changes in the world. Ontological boundaries make no sense as brute items above and beyond properties and relations; but they make no sense as a particular subset of properties and relations ...
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The “Master Argument” of Diodorus and Temporal Determinism

1971
Regardless of any doctrinal views of the matter, it is clear that with respect to a wide spectrum of propositions we are not in a position to say whether they are true or false. (E. g., “The President of the U. S. A. in the year 2010 will have been trained as a physician.”) And this is most graphically the case in those matters with respect to which we
Nicholas Rescher, Alasdair Urquhart
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The Master Argument of MacIntyre’s After Virtue

2003
In September of 1995 the Associated Press released a wire photo showing Russian lawmakers of both genders in a punching brawl during a session of the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.' Is this behavior an ethnic idiosyncrasy? Do only government officials duke it out over matters of great importance?
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