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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Labour relations in transition

open access: yes, 1994
Contains fulltext : 298174.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
openaire   +1 more source

Kripke's Reduction of Löb's Theorem to the Second Incompleteness Theorem

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we discuss Kripke's reduction of Löb's Principle to the Second Incompleteness Theorem. We have a closer look at the non‐constructive character of the reduction. We reflect on what the argument has to tell us. In the Appendix, We give a strengthening of Löb's Principle suggested by Kripke's reduction.
Albert Visser
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The Continuum Fallacy in Moral Philosophy

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Spectrum arguments’ or ‘continuum arguments’ in moral philosophy are sometimes invalid because they commit a particular fallacy I call the ‘Continuum Fallacy’. An important example is an argument in population ethics described by Derek Parfit, which purports to derive a conclusion that he and others find repugnant on the basis of a weak and ...
John Broome
wiley   +1 more source

Material Anchors in Language Learning

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Language‐learning materials are cognitive technologies that aim to facilitate the complex cognitive task of acquiring the means for effective communication in a second language. Blackfoot and Plains Cree are two closely related Indigenous languages spoken in Canada and the United States.
Conor Snoek
wiley   +1 more source

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