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A Contextual Accuracy Dominance Argument for Probabilism
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A central motivation for Probabilism—the principle of rationality that requires one to have credences that satisfy the axioms of probability—is the accuracy dominance argument: one should not have accuracy dominated credences, and one avoids accuracy dominance just in case one satisfies Probabilism.
Mikayla Kelley
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Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American StudiesIn the late 1660s and 1670s, Madame de Villedieu (née Desjardins) made a substantial contribution to the evolution of prose fiction, moving the genre from the heroic romance to the nouvelle in France, and thus in England.
Tomás Monterrey
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Guessing is the thesis that, roughly put, you may believe something iff it is among the most probable answers to a salient question. The thesis is motivated by observed features of felicitous belief reports when agents confront a question they aren't certain how to answer.
Helena Fang
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God’s Scrutiny, Divine Anonymity, and the Reception of Social Action
SociologicaBuilding on Thomas DeGloma’s book Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities (2023), to further explore the subject of anonymity, in this paper I elaborate on its connections with the themes of God and the divine.
Lorenzo Sabetta
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Acta Theologica, 2007 From the very beginning, the practice of intercessory prayer has been an accepted part of Christian life, yet it has often been felt to be in conflict with the Christian view of God.
D. T. Williams
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A Dynamic Solution to the Problem of Logical Omniscience [PDF]
, 2019 The traditional possible-worlds model of belief describes agents as ‘logically omniscient’ in the sense that they believe all logical consequences of what they believe, including all logical truths.
Bjerring, Jens, Skipper, Mattias
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Effective Choice and Boundedness Principles in Computable Analysis
, 2009 In this paper we study a new approach to classify mathematical theorems according to their computational content. Basically, we are asking the question which theorems can be continuously or computably transferred into each other?
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Theoria, EarlyView.Abstract This paper argues for the significance of Kaplan's logic LD in two ways: first, by looking at how logic got along before we had LD, and second, by using it to bring out the similarity between David Hume's thesis that one cannot deduce claims about the future on the basis of premises only about the past, and the so‐called "essentiality" of the ...
Gillian Russell
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(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
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Block structure vs scope extrusion: between innocence and omniscience [PDF]
Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2017 We study the semantic meaning of block structure using game semantics. To that end, we introduce the notion of block-innocent strategies and characterise call-by-value computation with block-allocated storage through soundness, finite definability and ...
Andrzej S. Murawski, Nikos Tzevelekos
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