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Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some commentators argue that the notes collected as Wittgenstein's On Certainty provide the basis for a groundbreaking epistemological theory and response to scepticism. This theory pertains to the role of what some have called the hinge propositions of our inquiry, following Wittgenstein's metaphor of hinges of a door. This paper examines one
David Veldran
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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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Arithmetic, Set Theory, Reduction and Explanation [PDF]
, 2018 Philosophers of science since Nagel have been interested in the links between intertheoretic reduction and explanation, understanding and other forms of epistemic progress.
D’Alessandro, William
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On the Syntax of Logic and Set Theory [PDF]
, 2010 We introduce an extension of the propositional calculus to include abstracts of predicates and quantifiers, employing a single rule along with a novel comprehension schema and a principle of extensionality, which are substituted for the Bernays ...
Schoenbaum, Lucius T.
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Critical Foundations of the Contextual Theory of Mind [PDF]
, 2011 The contextual mind is found attested in various usages of the term complement, in the background of Kant. The difficulties of Kant's intuitionism are taken up through Quine, but referential opacity is resolved as semantic presence in lived context.
antiquari(at)vodamail(dot)co(dot)za, Mr S.A. Orwin O'Dowd
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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 264-292, June 2026.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 metaphysical dimension of the inscrutability thesis
Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 The main purpose of this paper is to show how the thesis of the inscrutability of reference fits in Willard Van Orman Quine’s semantic and to establish how it is logically related to some other important theses from Quine.
Sofia Inês Albornoz Stein
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Logic and the Structure of the Web of Belief
Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2015 In this paper, I examine Quine's views on the epistemology of logic. According to Quine's influential holistic account, logic is central in the “web of belief” that comprises our overall theory of the world.
Matthew Carlson
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What do philosophers do? A few reflections on Timothy Williamson's "The Philosophy of Philosophy" [PDF]
, 2011 Con una risposta di Timothy Williamson (pp. 135-37)
Bianchi, Andrea
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People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1233-1247, May 2026.Abstract There are growing societal expectations that forests are managed for multiple benefits including carbon storage, biodiversity, health and recreation. Consequently, forest managers are increasingly expected to consider how external factors, including climate change, affect the future of their forests and the wider public benefits they provide ...
Louise Sing +4 more
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