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On the Reality of the Continuum Discussion Note: A Reply to Ormell, ‘Russell's Moment of Candour’, _Philosophy_ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In a recent article, Christopher Ormell argues against the traditional mathematical view that the real numbers form an uncountably infinite set. He rejects the conclusion of Cantor’s diagonal argument for the higher, non-denumerable infinity of the real ...
Newstead, Anne
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Justification and the Uniqueness Thesis Again [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
I reinforce my defense of permissivism about the rationality of doxastic attitudes on the face of a certain body of evidence against criticism published in this journal by Anantharaman.
Rosa, Luis
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Lozomieh in Ibn Sina’s Logic and its Relation to Various Kinds of Conditionals in Modern Logic with Analysis and Critique of Some Views

open access: yesMetaphysics, 2011
According to Ibn Sina's logic, Lozomieh is the only conditional that is suitable to be named real conditional. Also Lozomieh is among the foundations of Ibn Sina’s logic that the rules Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens would be applied only to it ...
M Hajihosseini
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Directional Bias [PDF]

open access: yes
There is almost a consensus among conditional experts that indicative conditionals are not material. Their thought hinges on the idea that if indicative conditionals were material, A → B could be vacuously true when A is false, even if B would be false ...
Silva, Matheus
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The Prometheus Challenge Redux [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Following up on its predecessor in this Journal, the article defends philosophy as a guide to making and analyzing art; identifies Cubist solutions to the Prometheus Challenge, including a novel analysis of Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d ...
Cusmariu, Arnold
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Scientific Realism and the Pessimistic Meta-Modus Tollens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Broadly speaking, the contemporary scientific realist is concerned to justify belief in what we might call theoretical truth, which includes truth based on ampliative inference and truth about unobservables.1 Many, if not most, contemporary realists say scientific realism should be treated as ‘an overarching scientific hypothesis’ (Putnam 1978, p. 18).
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The spectre of triviality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A spectre haunts the semantics of natural language — the spectre of Triviality. Semanticists (in particular Rothschild 2013; Khoo and Mandelkern 2018a,b) have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre.
Charlow, Nate
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Giffen's Paradox and Falsifiability [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper considers the methodological problem which the Giffen paradox poses for the economist intent on establishing the empirical status of microeconomic theory.
Gordon Welty
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