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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, 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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Cholinergic interneurons of the dorsomedial striatum mediate winner-loser effects on social hierarchy dynamics in male mice. [PDF]
iScienceHsu MT +4 more
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Kripke's Reduction of Löb's Theorem to the Second Incompleteness Theorem
Theoria, 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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Maximal and maximum transitive relation contained in a given binary relation [PDF]
, 2018 Sourav Chakraborty +3 more
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Defining ‘Species,’ ‘Biodiversity,’ and ‘Conservation’ by Their Transitive Relation
, 2013 Kirk Fitzhugh
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The Continuum Fallacy in Moral Philosophy
Theoria, 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
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Asymmetric learning and adaptability to changes in relational structure during transitive inference. [PDF]
Commun PsycholGraham TA, Spitzer B.
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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
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Groups whose homomorphic images have a transitive normality relation [PDF]
, 1973 Derek J. S. Robinson
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