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Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes and objects to the anti‐skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual warrant for our beliefs is immediate, based on experiential seemings. Crucially, it rejects requests for higher‐order justification or active defense of the justification ...
Guido Tana
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
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A note on Mcgee’s counterexample to Modus Ponens
Principia: An International Journal of EpistemologyIn this article I will review McGee's famous counterexample to Modus Ponens and I will argue that it is not a real counterexample. I will claim that the problem lies in an infelicitous assertion of the second premise.
Mariela Rubin
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LOGIC WITH EXCEPTION ON THE ALGEBRA OF FOURIER-DUAL OPERATIONS: NEURAL NET MECHANISM OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE REDUCING [PDF]
Научно-технический вестник информационных технологий, механики и оптики, 2014 A mechanism of cognitive dissonance reducing is demonstrated with approach for non-monotonic fuzzy-valued logics by Fourier-holography technique implementation developing. Cognitive dissonance occurs under perceiving of new information that contradicts
A. V. Pavlov
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Die argumentatiewe funksie van Jakobus 1:9-11
In die Skriflig, 1997 The connection between James 1:9-11 and the preceding verses is disputed among commentators. According to the disjointedness hypothesis, there is no connection. Variants of the unitary hypothesis connect 1:9-11 either to 1:2-4 or to 1:5-8.
J. L. P. Wolmarans, F. J. van Rensburg
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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The Development of Counterfactual Reasoning in Belief Revision
Psychologica Belgica, 2012 The present study examines how children revise beliefs in the face of a new piece of information that they must accept as true and under what circumstances their belief-revision processes differ from college-aged adults.
Nicole Van Hoeck +3 more
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Rebajar el peso de la adopción
Análisis Filosófico, 2022 En el presente trabajo se propone rebajar una de las condiciones para adoptar un principio lógico. La condición a la cual se rebaja tiene que ver con la aceptación del conocimiento proposicional y, por otro lado, con contemplar las consecuencias ...
Ivan Vladimir Gavriloff
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Resilience and Sorites in the Normative Domain and Beyond
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The sorites paradox is central to theories on vagueness, which aim to explain apparent contradictions. Some theories, however, imply sharp cut‐offs where we would, intuitively, not expect them. This paper invokes the notion of normative resilience to address this issue.
Henrik Andersson, Jakob Werkmäster
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Robustness of Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Reasoning Quintuple Implication Method
IEEE Access, 2022 The interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy quintuple implication algorithm, as an extension of the fuzzy reasoning algorithm, may better characterize and deal with uncertainty in the reasoning, but how to select distance measure and analyze the algorithm ...
Shuiling Zeng +3 more
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