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Abstract In this paper, I discuss two different metaethical challenges based on population ethical impossibility results. According to the anti‐realist challenge, the results pose a serious threat to the existence of objective moral facts. According to the skeptical challenge, the results pose a serious threat to the reliability of our moral intuitions.
Victor Moberger
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Avicennian logicians on the conversion of categorical propositions to conditional ones [PDF]
In another article, I have shown that Avicenna regards categorical propositions as “different” and “not identical,” yet “equivalent” to conditional propositions.
Asadollah Fallahi
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Recapture, Transparency, Negation and a Logic for the Catuskoti [PDF]
The recent literature on Nāgārjuna’s catuṣkoṭi centres around Jay Garfield’s (2009) and Graham Priest’s (2010) interpretation. It is an open discussion to what extent their interpretation is an adequate model of the logic for the catuskoti, and the Mūla ...
Kreutz, Adrian
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Past materials, past minds: The philosophy of cognitive paleoanthropology
Abstract The philosophy of cognitive paleoanthropology involves three related tasks: (1) asking what inferences might be drawn from the paleontological and archaeological records to past cognition, behavior and culture; (2) constructing synthetic accounts of the evolution of distinctive hominin capacities; (3) exploring how results from cognitive ...
Adrian Currie +4 more
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A 4-valued logic of strong conditional [PDF]
How to say no less, no more about conditional than what is needed? From a logical analysis of necessary and sufficient conditions (Section 1), we argue that a stronger account of conditional can be obtained in two steps: firstly, by reminding its ...
Schang, Fabien
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LπCET: A Logic Security Analysis for Cryptographic Protocols Based on π‐Calculus Extension Theory
The π‐calculus is a basic theory of mobile communication based on the notion of interaction, which, is aimed at analyzing and modeling the behaviors of communication processes in communicating and mobile systems, and is widely applied to the security analysis of cryptographic protocol’s design and implementation.
Fusheng Wu +4 more
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Experimenting with (Conditional) Perfection [PDF]
Conditional perfection is the phenomenon in which conditionals are strengthened to biconditionals. In some contexts, “If A, B” is understood as if it meant “A if and only if B.” We present and discuss a series of experiments designed to test one of the ...
Cariani, Fabrizio, Rips, Lance J.
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Dificuldades com inferências inválidas entre adultos: tentativa de superação
Estudos entre crianças e adultos demonstram que problemas silogísticos válidos (Modus Ponens e Modus Tollens) são de fácil solução, ao contrário daqueles que envolvem formas inválidas (Afirmação do Conseqüente e Negação do Antecedente), nos quais o ...
Dias Maria da Graça Bompastor Borges
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A Note on Statistical Hypothesis Testing: Probabilifying Modus Tollens Invalidates Its Force? Not True! [PDF]
Widaman KF.
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A Puzzle about Knowing Conditionals [PDF]
We present a puzzle about knowledge, probability and conditionals. We show that in certain cases some basic and plausible principles governing our reasoning come into conflict.
Rothschild, Daniel, Spectre, Levi
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