Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
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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Placebo-Referenced Class-Level Treatment Effects on Chronic Kidney Disease Progression in Patients With Diabetes: A Network Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
Pandey RK +5 more
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The Additive Logic of Epistemic Reasons: An Axiomatic Account
ABSTRACT The article argues for a system of axioms that is meant to capture the logic of normative reasons for belief. The system concerns a primitive direct‐reason relation, a defined doxastic‐reason relation, and a primitive function for the revision of rational belief by reasons.
Hannes Leitgeb
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Efficacy and safety of vasopressor infusions during caesarean delivery. [PDF]
Mushtaq K.
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Leibniz on Compossibility: Towards a Neo‐Logical Interpretation
ABSTRACT Leibniz's concept of compossibility explains why not all possible substances are actualised, thereby resisting Spinoza's necessitarianism. Yet, the precise basis of incompossibility remains unresolved. The influential ‘logical’ interpretation—exemplified by the Hintikka–D'Agostino thesis—locates incompossibility in contradictions among ...
Jun Young Kim
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NMAstudio 2.0: An interactive tool for network meta-analysis to enhance understanding, interpretation, and communication of the findings. [PDF]
Yu T +3 more
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Revenge Russell‐Myhill and the Ramified Hierarchy
ABSTRACT The Russell‐Myhill paradox targeting the structuralist view of proposition in classical higher‐order logic is blocked by implementing restrictions associated with an ordinary account of predicativity. However, it has been shown that these restrictions are not safe: “revenge” versions of the paradox show the inconsistency of the structuralist ...
Jacopo Berneri
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Topology only pre-training: towards generalised multi-domain graph models. [PDF]
Davies AO +3 more
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ABSTRACT Background Dengue vector control plays an important role in reducing the burden of dengue infection. Conventional meta‐analysis can only include interventions that can be directly compared. Hence, this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of all interventions for dengue vector control directly and indirectly through a multilevel Bayesian ...
Gary K. K. Low +5 more
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Response to the letter: "Comment on The efficacy and safety of multiple acupuncture therapies in primary insomnia: A Bayesian network meta-analysis". [PDF]
Liu L, Chen Y, Lu L, Kui Y.
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