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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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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 Double‐Halfer Embarrassment: Response to Pust
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Michael Titelbaum introduced a variant of the Sleeping Beauty problem in which a coin is tossed on both Monday and Tuesday, with the Tuesday toss not affecting Beauty's condition. Titelbaum argues that double halfers are committed to the embarrassing position that Beauty's credence that today's coin toss lands heads is greater than 1/2.
Lennart B. Ackermans
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Dreams, Scepticism and Idealism
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT On one narrative, Berkeleyan idealism arises from Cartesian theorising: Descartes's discussion of dreaming in the Meditations leads first to scepticism, and through scepticism, to Berkeley's rejection of realism. In this paper, I consider how this move from dreams to idealism is supposed to work.
Melissa Frankel
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 645-660, September 2026.ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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Reasoning With Conditionals About Everyday and Mathematical Concepts in Primary School
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 A research link between conditional reasoning and mathematics has been reported only for late adolescents and adults, despite claims about the pivotal importance of conditional reasoning, i.e., reasoning with if–then statements, in mathematics. Secondary
Anastasia Datsogianni +6 more
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Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 18, Issue 3, July 2026.Abstract Our ability to imagine alternatives to reality is central to everyday cognition. Our competence in reasoning depends not only on our capacity to envisage the relevant facts, but also on our proficiency in simulating alternatives to them. I discuss how our skill in making deductive inferences depends on imagining possibilities. To illustrate, I
Ruth M. J. Byrne
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A New Hilbert's Hotel Argument Against Past‐Eternalism
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 145-153, June 2026.ABSTRACT This paper offers a new formulation of the “Hilbert's Hotel Argument” (HHA) which is superior to existing formulations because it (1) demonstrates that HH is logically impossible in the concrete world, (2) takes into account the need to consider the assumptions of HHA, and (3) offers a reply to an important objection concerning the validity of
Andrew Ter Ern Loke, Eli Haitov
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Conflict Detection and Logical Complexity
Psychologica Belgica, 2018 Empirical evidence for the capacity to detect conflict between biased reasoning and normative principles has led to the proposal that reasoners have an intuitive grasp of some basic logical principles.
Janie Brisson +3 more
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P is not equal to NP by Modus Tollens
CoRR, 2014 7 pages. Caution: this solution should not be reported to be correct while this caution stands. Actually, it is quite unlikely that this simple solution is correct. I am sharing this e-print to get comments on the probable mistake that I could not have found yet. If you have a conceptual grasp on Cooks Theory and some related glossaries then there will
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