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Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
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Problemos, 2020 Over the past several decades, in the field of temporal logic there have been created a great number of semantical theories that provide different truth conditions for tensed propositions.
Živilė Pabijutaitė
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The Question of Referentiality
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most theorists have offered different accounts of reference fixing for names, demonstratives, and indexicals. Indeed, this variety can seem an inevitable response to a certain class of hard cases. Here, I will offer a unified account of reference fixing equally capable of handling these cases.
Eliot Michaelson
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Kripke, Myer, 1967 February 16
, 1967 FATHER JOHN P MARKOE, DLR 73OPM STUDENT UNION CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY OMAHA NEBR WARM GREETINGS ON THIS JUBILEE OF SERVICE TO GOD AND MEN. MAY GOD'S BLESSING PRESERVE YOUR STRENGTH AND COURAGE FOR MANY MANY MORE YEARS OF SIGNAL ACHIEVEMENT RABBI AND MRS ...
Kripke, Myer S.
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Accentuation of suicides but not homicides with rising latitudes of Greenland in the sunny months
BMC Psychiatry, 2009 Background Seasonal variation in suicides has been shown in many countries. We assessed the seasonality and the variation with latitude in suicides and homicides, and the impact of alcohol on the seasonality in suicides.
Bjerregaard Peter +2 more
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On the Limits of Intransitive Coordination
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A growing number of authors suggest that concept coordination—the kind of relation we pick out when we say that the concepts of one or more individuals represent something as the same—is not a transitive relation. Here we consider global features of representational systems to break new ground in the assessment of the intransitivity view. From
Víctor M. Verdejo, Joost J. Joosten
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Death, Deprivation, and the Symmetry Problem
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT According to the deprivation account of the badness of death, death is bad for the one who dies because it deprives her of goods she would otherwise have enjoyed. This view faces the so‐called symmetry problem when one considers prenatal nonexistence. Scholars have proposed various solutions to this problem, but all of them encounter their own
Ryota Ishihara
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Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Descartes' cogito argument is perhaps the most well‐known philosophical argument, the conclusion of which is supposed to be a form of rationalism that allows for contingent a priori knowledge of the world. In this short note, I argue that, in fact, the all important statement, ‘I am, I exist’, should be analysed through the lens of (classical)
Tom Schoonen
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Submodels of Kripke Models [PDF]
, 1998 A Kripke model K is a submodel of another Kripke model M if K is obtained by restricting the set of nodes of M. In this paper we show that the class of formulas of Intuitionistic Predicate Logic that is preserved under taking submodels of Kripke models ...
Albert Visser, Visser, A.
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Kripke's Epistemic Argument Against Descriptivism Revisited
, 2013 Kripke's epistemic argument against descriptivism is reconstructed as follows. Premise 1: if descriptivism is correct, then "N is the F" should be knowable a priori; Premise 2: in fact, "N is the F" is not knowable a priori ...
Bo, Chen
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