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Principles of Uncertain Reasoning
1996The aim of this paper is to discuss some principles or assumptions arising in uncertain reasoning, and to investigate their relationships and consequences within the particular framework of probability logic. In order to motivate this framework and to provide a context in which to judge these principles we first consider a simple example.
Jeff Paris, Alena Vencovska
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason
The Journal of Philosophy, 2001The paper is about the physical theories which result when one identifies points in phase space related by symmetries; with applications to problems concerning gauge freedom and the structure of spacetime in classical mechanics.
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Inquiry, 2004
What is required for one thing to be a reason for another? Must the reason, more precisely, be or involve a principle? In this essay I target the idea that justification via reasons of one's beliefs (e.g., epistemic or moral) requires that the ‘justifying reasons’ be or involve (substantive and significant) principles.
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What is required for one thing to be a reason for another? Must the reason, more precisely, be or involve a principle? In this essay I target the idea that justification via reasons of one's beliefs (e.g., epistemic or moral) requires that the ‘justifying reasons’ be or involve (substantive and significant) principles.
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason
1971The basic philosophical difficulty people feel in believing in freewill lies in the fact that this doctrine seems to violate the principle of sufficient reason. Now the principle of sufficient reason is simply the doctrine that behind every event whatever there is a “sufficient,” i.e., entirely adequate, reason for its happening rather than something ...
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