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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
wiley   +1 more source

The Additive Logic of Epistemic Reasons: An Axiomatic Account

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Leibniz on Compossibility: Towards a Neo‐Logical Interpretation

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Revenge Russell‐Myhill and the Ramified Hierarchy

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Topology only pre-training: towards generalised multi-domain graph models. [PDF]

open access: yesData Min Knowl Discov
Davies AO   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Comparative Effectiveness of Vector Control Approaches for Dengue: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Network Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesTropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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