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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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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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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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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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Higher-Order Defeat Without Epistemic Dilemmas [PDF]
, 2018 Many epistemologists have endorsed a version of the view that rational belief is sensitive to higher-order defeat. That is to say, even a fully rational belief state can be defeated by misleading higher-order evidence, which indicates that the belief ...
Skipper, Mattias
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, 2018 Blameworthiness of an agent or a coalition of agents is often defined in terms of the principle of alternative possibilities: for the coalition to be responsible for an outcome, the outcome must take place and the coalition should have had a strategy to ...
Naumov, Pavel, Tao, Jia
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A recovery operator for non-transitive approaches [PDF]
, 2018 In some recent articles, Cobreros, Egré, Ripley, & van Rooij have defended the idea that abandoning transitivity may lead to a solution to the trouble caused by semantic paradoxes.
Barrio, Eduardo Alejandro +2 more
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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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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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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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