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Platonism as a Philosophical Method [PDF]

Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2018
The concept of Platonism has shown variations throughout history, but generally it has been associated with those thinkers who have accepted, with different permutations, the so-called Theory of Ideas, a theory defended by those who have advocated for ...
Ignacio García Peña
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A plea for a modal realist epistemology [PDF]

, 2000
David Lewis’s genuine modal realism postulates the existence of concrete possible worlds that are spatio-temporally discontinuous with the concrete world we inhabit. How, then, can we have modal knowledge?
Bueno, O., Shalkowski, S.
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‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
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Philosophy of name in P. Florensky's creativity: platonism or palamism

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2010
P.A. Florensky is considered as the ancestor of Philosophy of Name in Russia, supporter of Onomatodoxy. At the same time his «Christian Platonism» remains a subject of sharp discussions even today. In Florensky's creativity enter inconsistent interaction
S A Nizhnikov
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Quinean Ontological Commitment Derailed [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2013
What should we believe exists? The Quinean response is straightforward: We should believe in all and only those objects over which we must quantify in our best scientific theories.
Roxanne Marie Kurtz
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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Reception of Plato's philosophical heritage. Fine, G. (ed.). (2019). Тhe Oxford Handbook of Plato. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sententiae, 2020
Review of Fine G.
Alisa Zviagina
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A Defense of Scientific Platonism without Metaphysical Presuppositions [PDF]

, 2015
From the Platonistic standpoint, mathematical edifices form an immaterial, unchanging, and eternal world that exists independently of human thought. By extension, “scientific Platonism” says that directly mathematizable physical phenomena – in other ...
Punin, Peter
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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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The Ontology of Reference: Studies in Logic and Phenomenology [PDF]

, 1976
: We propose a dichotomy between object-entities and meaning-entities. The former are entities such as molecules, cells, organisms, organizations, numbers, shapes, and so forth.
Smith, Barry
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