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Wittgenstein and concept‐extension in mathematics

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
Abstract I begin by attempting to get a perspicuous overview of what Wittgenstein means by saying that a mathematical proof forms concepts. I then distinguish these sorts of cases from those we might call concept‐extending proofs, which, rather than introducing new concepts, function to enrich those concepts that have already been given a home in our ...
Samuel J. Wheeler
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational Alignment With Artificial Intelligence in Context

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The development of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents based on large language models raises important questions about the relationship between human norms, values, and practices and AI design and performance. This article explores what it means for AI agents to be conversationally aligned to human communicative ...
Rachel Katharine Sterken   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Errant Implicature

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To measure is to err. Serving both numeric and non‐numeric measurement, the language of measurement refers to margins of error, within which measurement reports locate their measurements. Such reports and reasoning from them invoke what is known and what is known to be known about error‐strewn measurement to derive and contrast the ...
Barry Schein
wiley   +1 more source

Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
wiley   +1 more source

Heidegger on the ontological significance of the principle of noncontradiction

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this article is to break down to its principal arguments the abundant material recently published in Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe related to a conference given in December 1932 on the principle of noncontradiction (PNC). I will first highlight the importance in phenomenology of a correct interpretation of the PNC and then explain ...
François Jaran
wiley   +1 more source

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