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Cut-off points for the rational believer [PDF]
I show that the Lottery Paradox is just a version of the Sorites, and argue that this should modify our way of looking at the Paradox itself. In particular, I focus on what I call “the Cut-off Point Problem” and contend that this problem, well known by ...
Lissia, Lina Maria
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Mediality and Rationality in Aristotle's Account of Excellence of Character [PDF]
, 1992 I offer a reading of Aristotle’s “doctrine of the mean” that avoids two pitfalls: taking it as truistic, and taking it as involving the bizarre thesis that whenever one acts as reason directs, one’s action is mid-way between some extremes.
Mccullagh, Mark
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The Triviality Result is not Counter-Intuitive [PDF]
The Equation (TE) states that the probability of A → B is the probability of B given A. Lewis (1976) has shown that the acceptance of TE implies that the probability of A → B is the probability of B, which is implausible: the probability of a conditional
Silva, Matheus
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Disconfirmation is not modus tollens
The ReasonerScientific disconfirmation has often been thought to be reasoning by modus tollens. This interpretation, however, misconstrues the conditionals in this scientific reasoning in terms of the material conditional, rather than in terms of causal conditionals.
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Vagueness-Induced Counterexamples to Modus Tollens
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2020 Abstract I argue that vagueness produces counterexamples to modus tollens. I begin by outlining cases where indicative and counterfactual conditionals (henceforth, natural conditionals) seem intuitively to be determinate even when their antecedents are borderline and their consequents are determinately false.
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Counterfactual Truths: The Logical Structure of Argumentative Thought Experiments [PDF]
, 2015 Argumentative thought experiments are structurally conditional clauses. They can hence be formalized by means of the principle of modus ponendo ponens, as well as of modus tollendo tollens.
Álvarez-Vázquez, Javier Y.
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When are Humans Reasoning with Modus Tollens?
, 2021 Modus tollens is a rule of inference in classical, two-valued logic which allows to derive the negation of the antecedent from a conditional and the negation of its consequent. In this paper, we investigate when humans draw such conclusions and what modulates the application of modus tollens. We consider conditionals which may or may not be obligations
Cramer, Marcos +2 more
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Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 42-68, Winter 2024.
Rowan Mellor
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Conditional reasoning with narrative contexts: the role of semantic and pragmatic factors [PDF]
, 1997 This work was presented at Fourth Biennial Conference of the AUSTRALASIAN COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, celebrated in the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 26-28th September, 1997The main objective of this experiment is to determine in ...
Ferraces Otero, María José +3 more
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Conhecimento, Verdade e Significado
DoisPontos, 2009 This paper’s goal is to present a Wittgenstein’s argument against philosophical realism, the strong realism with respect to truth. Wittgenstein’s argument has the general form of a modus tollens whose conditional premise states that strong realism ...
Alexandre N. Machado
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