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A Match Made in (Rational) Heaven? How Credences Relate to Probability Beliefs

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much has been said about the relation between credences and beliefs. Surprisingly little, however, has been said about how credences more specifically relate to probability beliefs. In this paper, I will argue that they are normatively related. This proposal goes against belief‐first reductionism, which says that credences just are probability
Roman Heil
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O empirismo construtivo e o argumento de Musgrave: um problema ou um pseudoproblema?

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Resumo Em 1985, Alan Musgrave levantou uma séria objeção contra a possibilidade, por parte de um empirista construtivo, de traçar de maneira coerente a distinção - crucial para ele - entre observáveis e inobserváveis.
Alessio Gava
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Fixed-Point Posets in Theories of Truth [PDF]

, 2019
We show that any coherent complete partial order is obtainable as the fixed-point poset of the strong Kleene jump of a suitably chosen first-order ground model.
Mackereth, Stephen
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Replies to Healey’s Comments Regarding van Fraassen’s Positions [PDF]

, 2020
Healey (2019a) makes four comments on my (Park, 2019a) objections to van Fraassen’s positions. The four comments concern the issues of whether ‘disbelief’ is appropriate or inappropriate to characterize van Fraassen’s position, what the relationship ...
Park, Seungbae
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Social movements and the synecdoche problem

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 385-412, June 2026.
Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
wiley   +1 more source

The Problem of Unobservable A Defense of Van Fraassen’s Distinction between Observable and Unobservable [PDF]

Metaphysics, 2015
In constructive empiricism Van Fraassen intends to defend the epistemological distinction between truth and empirical adequacy as well as between cognitive belief and pragmatic acceptance, based on epistemological distinction between observable entities ...
Jahangir Moazzenzade, Mirsaeid Mousavi Karimi   +1 more
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Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 59-71, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
wiley   +1 more source

Subdeterminación y empirismo constructivo [PDF]

, 2009
En el debate entre realistas y antirrealistas científicos la tesis de la subdeterminación de la teoría por la evidencia ha sido presentada como uno de los desafios más fuertes que debe enfrentar la posición realista.
Gentile, Nélida
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Mereological Perspectivism in Philosophy of Biology

Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper presents the philosophical implications of the position that we call mereological perspectivism. Mereological perspectivism asserts that determining whether a composite biological object constitutes a single unit (an individual) necessarily depends on the selection of privileged parts of the composite.
Adrian Stencel, Javier Suárez
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Temporal dimension of new-Zeno paradoxes [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
The paper investigates some properties of new-Zeno paradoxes. New-Zeno paradoxes are thought experiments whose conditions are set up in terms of Zeno sequences of numbers, i.e.
E. V. Borisov
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