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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Lewis and Quine in context

Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2023
Abstract Robert Sinclair’s Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism, and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction persuasively argues that Quine’s epistemology was deeply influenced by C. I. Lewis’s pragmatism.
openaire   +2 more sources

On Kant's Definition of Analogy

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Prolegomena, Kant offers his official definition of analogy in terms of the perfect similarity of the relations holding for completely dissimilar pairs. Although interpreters neglect to reconstruct Kant's views on similarity, they often cite the Prolegomena definition and take it to characterise analogy as the identity of two relations.
Roberto Leone Zellini
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A Methodological Plea: Sampling in Experimental Philosophy

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper highlights a methodological problem that might render the value of Experimental Philosophy (X‐Phi) research unclear. It is argued that research in X‐Phi often relies on an unrepresentative sample with respect to the target population and the contingent property examined.
Yotam Harel
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Why “is at”? —On Quine’s Objection to Carnap’s Aufbau in “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”

Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2018
In “Two Dogmas”, Quine indicates that Carnap’s Aufbau fails “in principle” to reduce our knowledge of the external world to sense data. This is because in projecting the sensory material to reconstruct the physical world, Carnap gives up the use of ...
Ka Ho Lam
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Deepening the real options debate: Real options as dynamic optimization

Strategic Management Journal, Volume 47, Issue 11, Page 2823-2870, November 2026.
Abstract Research Summary Is real option theory useful for management research? This topic was hotly debated two decades ago. Real options were said to be inapplicable to management research and to lack conceptual distinctiveness. Whereas responses to the claim about the non‐distinctiveness of real options were disparate, the concern about the theory's
Arkadiy V. Sakhartov, Joseph T. Mahoney, Jeffrey J. Reuer   +2 more
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Dos modelos de interpretación: la indeterminación de la traducción en quine y el argumento modelo teorético de Putnam

Manuscrito, 2013
Las tesis de la indeterminación de Quine establecen que las condiciones de verdad de una oración sub-determinan la referencia de los términos que ocurren en la misma. La cuestión es ¿cuál es el alcance de esa sub-determinación?
Carlos E. Caorsi
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The Effect of Construal Level on Mental Accounting: Abstract (vs. Concrete) Construal Reduces the Mental Labeling Effect

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Volume 39, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Mental accounting research exhibits how consumers' marketplace behaviors deviate from those predicted by the Standard Economic Theory. For example, research shows how money loses fungibility when people assign mental labels to their currency and make purchases consistent with such labels. Although the applications of mental accounting are well
Mehdi Tanzeeb Hossain
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Resilience Pathways for Land Degradation Neutrality: How Informal Institutions Shape Community Land Governance Across the Global South

Land Degradation &Development, Volume 37, Issue 16, Page 11813-11831, October 2026.
ABSTRACT A decade after Land Degradation Neutrality was incorporated into Sustainable Development Goal 15.3, implementation outcomes across the Global South remain uneven. Mainstream commons research identifies recurring institutional features, whereas critical institutionalism emphasizes their adaptive assembly; both traditions increasingly recognize ...
Tengyuan Yang, Senbao Lu, Jiapeng Dai
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A Generator for Recursive Zip Files

Applied 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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