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Apparent Paradoxes Are Paradoxes and the Problem of Change Is an Apparent Paradox

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we argue that, under certain conditions, if something is, apparently, a paradox, then it is a paradox. We then apply this claim to a recent discussion on the so‐called “Problem of Change.” Throughout the history of Philosophy, many authors have viewed change as a paradoxical phenomenon. More recently, some have defended that the
Sergi Oms, Marta Campdelacreu
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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
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On the Relation Between the Se Element and Pronoun Sebe (Self)

open access: yesRasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2015
The paper discusses the relation between a se element and pronoun sebe (self) and, in that correlation, a different approach to reflexive verbs. The approach to defining the se element in certain Croatian grammars published since the beginning of 20th ...
Ivana Oraić Rabušić
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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
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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

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