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From Logical Calculus to Logical Formality—What Kant Did with Euler’s Circles [PDF]

, 2017
John Venn has the “uneasy suspicion” that the stagnation in mathematical logic between J. H. Lambert and George Boole was due to Kant’s “disastrous effect on logical method,” namely the “strictest preservation [of logic] from mathematical encroachment ...
Lu-Adler, Huaping
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Heavy‐duty conceptual engineering

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Conceptual engineering is the process of assessing and improving our conceptual repertoire. Some authors have claimed that introducing or revising concepts through conceptual engineering can go as far as expanding the realm of thinkable thoughts and thus enable us to form beliefs, hypotheses, wishes, or desires that we are currently unable to ...
Steffen Koch, Jakob Ohlhorst
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A MODEL STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE SHAPE OF VARIABLE-PHASE FIELD DISTRIBUTION AREAS ON ANTENNA RADIATION

Надежность и качество сложных систем
Background. In radio engineering systems for various purposes, microwave antennas with a radiation pattern of a sector type are used to solve problems at maximum ranges in a wide range of angles.
A.N. Yakimov
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Reflections on the Importance of Reference for Understanding Thinking

International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2015
An intentional form of the semantics of algebraic expressions in the tradition starting with Frege is popular in mathematics education. On the other hand, mathematical logic including predicate calculus and lambda calculus is dominated for more than 50 ...
Reinhard Oldenburg
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Ability as dependence modality

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Some modal expressions in language—for example, “can” and “able”—describe what is possible in light of someone's abilities. Ability modals are obviously related to other modalities in language, such as epistemic or deontic modality, but also give rise to anomalies that make them unique.
Paolo Santorio
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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
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The 1900 Turn in Bertrand Russell’s Logic, the Emergence of his Paradox, and the Way Out [PDF]

, 2016
Russell’s initial project in philosophy (1898) was to make mathematics rigorous reducing it to logic. Before August 1900, however, Russell’s logic was nothing but mereology. First, his acquaintance with Peano’s ideas in August 1900 led him to discard the
Milkov, Nikolay
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Epistemic authenticity

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract There are better and worse ways to acquire epistemic virtues and more generally to be disposed to change or maintain one's epistemic dispositions over time. This is a dimension along which one might be better or worse as an epistemic agent that, we argue, cannot be explained with reference to current normative categories in epistemology but ...
Laura Frances Callahan, Michael C. Rea
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All About Carnap's Babylon

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language (1937) contains an unfortunate passage, the ‘Babylon passage’, explaining what it is for a linguistic expression to be about a subject matter. Past criticism has only addressed Carnap's mistaken claim that the occurrence of a denoting term is necessary and sufficient for a linguistic expression to be about ...
C. Naomi Osorio‐Kupferblum
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Willard Van Orman Quine's Philosophical Development in the 1930s and 1940s [PDF]

, 2018
As analytic philosophy is becoming increasingly aware of and interested in its own history, the study of that field is broadening to include, not just its earliest beginnings, but also the mid-twentieth century.
Janssen-Lauret, Frederique
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