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Unsolvable Riddles and the Truth of Skepticism: Wittgenstein and Cavell
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1540-1556, December 2025.Abstract Both Wittgenstein and Cavell see riddles as a model of intellectual difficulty. By drawing attention to it, they remind us that not all of our intellectual challenges take the form of empirically answerable questions—there may be cases of our not merely lacking knowledge, but of being caught in the fantasy that a certain type of knowledge can ...
Gilad Nir
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HOW TO AVOID SOLIPSISM WHILE REMAINING AN IDEALIST: LESSONS FROM BERKELEY AND DHARMAKIRTI [PDF]
, 2012 This essay examines the strategies that Berkeley and Dharmakirti utilize to deny that idealism entails solipsism. Beginning from similar arguments for the non-existence of matter, the two philosophers employ markedly different strategies for establishing
Henkel, Jeremy E.
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Macdonald Before Quine on Truth by Convention
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 188-199, December 2025.ABSTRACT I show that Margaret Macdonald anticipated Quine's well‐known criticisms of logical conventionalism in her unpublished 1934 PhD thesis, but that she later developed her criticisms in a direction distinct from that of Quine under the influence of Wittgenstein. Macdonald rejected as senseless the suggestion that statements of logical truth admit
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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Delayed Choice, Complementarity, Entanglement and Measurement
, 2017 It is well known that Wheeler proposed several delayed choice experiments in order to show the impossibility to speak of the way a quantum system behaves before being detected.
Zwirn, Hervé
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From Einstein's Theorem to Bell's Theorem: A History of Quantum Nonlocality [PDF]
, 2005 In this Einstein Year of Physics it seems appropriate to look at an important aspect of Einstein's work that is often down-played: his contribution to the debate on the interpretation of quantum mechanics. Contrary to popular opinion, Bohr had no defence
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Entre o dizer e o mostrar: o lugar da secção do solipsismo na estrutura argumentativa do Tractatus
Princípios, 2011 The distinction between saying and showing is central in the development of critical language made by the early Wittgenstein. Assuming that the numbering system of the Tractatus points (despite all the controversies) to certain argumentative structure of
Gerson Júnior
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Subject in Tractatus according to David Pears [PDF]
Metaphysics, 2013 Subjectivism is viewed as one of the most fundamental underpinnings of modern philosophy. In modern philosophy, subject takes up a new position in human knowledge.
M Hoseinzadeh Yazdi, AK Ahmadi Afranjami
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Genetic Phenomenology and Empirical Naturalism [PDF]
, 2018 Husserl’s phenomenology is developed in explicit contrast to naturalism. At the same time, various scholars have attempted to overcome this opposition by naturalizing consciousness and phenomenology.
Pace Giannotta, Andrea
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The fourth‐dimensional ontology of sankofa epistemology
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue S1, Page S82-S91, September 2025.Abstract Debates about the metaphysical and ontological status of the principles of noncontradiction, excluded middle, identity, sufficient reason, and the identity of indiscernibles raise logical and substantive issues of interest in Western philosophy.
Nkiru Nzegwu
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