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A Persisting Equivalence

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In several articles, McCall and Lowe have claimed that endurantism and perdurantism are “equivalent.” From this, they conclude that there is no fact of the matter as to whether we live in an endurantist world or in a perdurantist world. In this paper, I use the notion of Morita equivalence to show in which precise sense, McCall and Lowe's ...
Joshua Babic
wiley   +1 more source

Laws and Reasons Why

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
wiley   +1 more source

Inquiry and Logical Form

open access: yesPhilosophical 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Distinctness of Objects Near and Far

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophers working on the metaphysics of persistence typically do not extend their views to the distinctness of objects at a single time. I argue that we can provide criteria to distinguish objects across time if and only if we can provide criteria to distinguish objects at a time. Furthermore, I endorse a stronger claim.
Erica Shumener
wiley   +1 more source

Parameterized Linear Time Transitive Closure

open access: yes
arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2212 ...
Kritikakis, Giorgos, Tollis, Ioannis G
openaire   +2 more sources

Comparing the expressiveness of downward fragments of the relation algebra with transitive closure on trees

open access: green, 2019
Jelle Hellings   +6 more
openalex   +2 more sources

The efficacy of biologic factors on the surgical therapy of periodontal suprabony defects: A systematic review and network meta‐analysis of randomized clinical trials

open access: yesPeriodontology 2000, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives This systematic review investigated the efficacy of biologic factors in the surgical treatment of periodontal suprabony defects. Materials and Methods Three databases were searched to identify RCTs comparing open‐flap debridement (OFD) combined with biologic factors only, or combined with bone substitute, and/or barriers to the same
Carrie Chew   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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