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A Generator for Recursive Zip Files

open access: yesApplied Sciences
This paper explores the concept of zip quines, which are zip files that contain themselves upon extraction, extending the idea of computational self-reference.
Ruben Van Mello, Pieter Audenaert
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La(s) tesis Quine-Duhem y sus implicancias [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
El propósito del presente trabajo es ofrecer una clasificación de las diferentes consecuencias de la tesis Quine-Duhem, tanto a nivel epistemológico, como metodológico.
Velasco, Marisa
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カンサツブン ノ テイギ オ メグッテ クワイン ノ ゲンゴロン ト ニンシキロン [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The concept of \u27observation sentences\u27, which is first introduced in Word and Object (1960), has since been a key concept both in Quine\u27s epistemology and in his theory of language.
清塚 邦彦
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Permutations and foster problems: two puzzles or one? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
How are permutation arguments for the inscrutability of reference to be formulated in the context of a Davidsonian truth-theoretic semantics? Davidson (1979) takes these arguments to establish that there are no grounds for favouring a reference scheme ...
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Quine's Double Standard: Undermining the Indispensability Argument via the Indeterminacy of Reference

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2003
Quine has famously put forward the indispensability argument to force belief in the existence of mathematical objects (such as classes) due to their indispensability to our best theories of the world (Quine 1960).
Otávio Bueno
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Holism and the Underlying Structure of Our Acceptance Criteria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
It is a common place that the way we live is founded\ud largely on the way we choose to think. It is a significant\ud element of our practices that there should be at least a\ud specific relation connecting thought to each other.
Pedroso, Makmiller Martins
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Quine's Ideological Debacle

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2004
In two papers in the mid-seventies, Quine has discussed an ontological debacle, the reduction of ontology to an ontology of pure sets only. This debacle, which weakened Quine’s interest in ontology, is the natural outcome of ontological relativity, or, more precisely, the proxy-function argument.
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Teoría de la evidencia y holismo moderado en W. V.O. Quine

open access: yesPraxis Filosófica, 1999
Este artículo presenta lo que puede considerarse como la teoría de la evidencia sensorial relativa a las teorías empíricas, que el filósofo estadounidense W.V.O Quine expuso en el contexto filosófico de una epistemología naturalizada.
Germán Guerrero Pino
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Psychosemantic analyticity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
It is widely agreed that the content of a logical concept such as and is constituted by the inferences it enters into. I argue that it is impossible to draw a principled distinction between logical and non-logical concepts, and hence that the content of ...
Horsey, Richard
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A Dichotomic Analysis of the Surprise Examination Paradox [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper presents a dichotomic analysis of the surprise examination paradox. In section 1, I analyse the surprise notion in detail. I introduce then in section 2, the distinction between a monist and dichotomic analysis of the paradox.
Franceschi, Paul
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