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Viewing-as explanations and ontic dependence [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Studies, 2018
According to a widespread view in metaphysics and philosophy of science (the “Dependence Thesis”), all explanations involve relations of ontic dependence between the items appearing in the explanandum and the items appearing in the explanans. I argue that a family of mathematical cases, which I call “viewing-as explanations”, are incompatible with the ...
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TRANSLATION AND COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2012
TRADUCEREA ŞI LINGVISTICA COMPARATIVĂ Traducerea necesită confruntarea nu doar a structurilor semantice ale unităţilor lexicale, ci şi a categoriilor gramaticale, lexical-gramaticale, fonologice şi stilistice din limbile respective.
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Epistemic and Ontic Theories of Explanation and Confirmation

open access: yesKagaku tetsugaku, 1995
This paper reviews some recent work on issues connecting the theories of scientific explanation and confirmation. Beginning with Harman and Hempel and continuing with Salmon, Miller, Pennock and Ruben, I consider different explications of the explanatory relation that could be used in an Inference to the Best Explanation (I.B.E.) confirmation theory ...
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The Basic Dualism in the World: Object-Oriented Ontology and Systems Theory

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Graham Harman writes that the “basic dualism in the world lies…between things in their intimate reality and things as confronted by other things.” However, dualism implies irreconcilable difference; what Harman points to is better expressed as a dyad ...
Zwick Martin
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