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The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and Truth
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (2): 289–293.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Robert Stern James W. Allard, The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and Truth . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xviii + 241 pp. Cornell University 2008 BOOK REVIEWS
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Visual inference can be affected by information about what one is looking a...
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Figure 2. Visual inference can be affected by information about what one is looking at. Look at the image and search for anything out of the ordinary before reading this footnote for a hint. 54 Image reprinted from Lupyan 2017 (original photographer unknown).
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INSIGHT AND INFERENCE: DESCARTES'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLE AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 105–108.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Lawrence Nolan INSIGHT AND INFERENCE: DESCARTES'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLE AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY. By Murray Miles. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 564. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS
S are not P” should rather have been “S does...
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CAUSALITY: MODELS, REASONING AND INFERENCE
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 639–641.
Published: 01 October 2001
...Christopher Hitchcock CAUSALITY: MODELS, REASONING AND INFERENCE. By Judea Pearl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 384. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 4 (October 2001)
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Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 554–558.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Daniel W. Harris Lepore Ernie and Stone Matthew , Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . viii + 292 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 Humans are social primates, and our particular...
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Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get beyond the Statistics
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 185–189.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Conor Mayo-Wilson Mayo Deborah , Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get beyond the Statistics Wars . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , 2018 . xv + 471 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 For more than three decades, Deborah Mayo has defended severe...
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“Ought” Implies “Can” but Does Not Imply “Must”: An Asymmetry between Becoming Infeasible and Becoming Overridden
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 487–514.
Published: 01 October 2018
...) obligations that become overridden are not always lost (i.e., sometimes you keep having an obligation when you acquire a stronger incompatible obligation) entails that (ONIM) “ought” does not imply “must” (i.e., some obligations are not all-things-considered). It is standard to infer ONIM—via (2)—from...
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The Unreliability of Naive Introspection
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (2): 245–273.
Published: 01 April 2008
... foundationalism supposing that we infer an external world from secure knowledge of our own consciousness is almost exactly backward. Cornell University 2008 Aristotle. 1961 . De Anima , ed. W. D. Ross. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Armstrong, D. M. 1963 . “Is Introspective Knowledge Incorrigible...
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Saying Good-Bye to the Direct Argument the Right Way
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 349–383.
Published: 01 July 2008
... is even in part morally responsible for what one does. This argument, the Direct Argument, has drawn various critics, who have attempted to produce counterexamples to its core inference principle. This article considers two notable efforts, one by John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza and another by David...
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The Perception-Cognition Border: A Case for Architectural Division
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 323–393.
Published: 01 July 2020
...E. J. Green A venerable view holds that a border between perception and cognition is built into our cognitive architecture and that this imposes limits on the way information can flow between them. While the deliverances of perception are freely available for use in reasoning and inference...
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How Is Perception Tractable?
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 239–292.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Figure 2. Visual inference can be affected by information about what one is looking at. Look at the image and search for anything out of the ordinary before reading this footnote for a hint. 54 Image reprinted from Lupyan 2017 (original photographer unknown). ...
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The Basing Relation
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (2): 179–217.
Published: 01 April 2019
... by the agent's object-involving de se representation of that very exercise as justifying . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 basing relation inference operative reason motivating reason epistemic agency deviant causal chain transparency So-Hyun watches Al-Jazeera and also watches CNN. She...
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The Rationality of Perception
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Casey O'Callaghan References Buckner Cameron 2017 . “ Rational Inference: The Lowest Bounds .” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research . doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12455 . Firestone Chaz , and Scholl Brian J. 2016 . “ Cognition Does Not Affect Perception: Evaluating...
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On the Purity of the Art of Logic: The Shorter and the Longer Treatises
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 311–313.
Published: 01 April 2002
... is of two works. The
brief unfinished Shorter Treatise, which survives in only two manuscripts, deals
with rules of inference (or consequences) and syncategorematic terms. It was
presumably written before the Longer Treatise, which repeats long sections of
the Shorter Treatise verbatim but which also...
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Memory and Persons
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 289–337.
Published: 01 July 2003
... or warrant into an
argument. When I recall a general fact, I use substantive content mem-
ory. When I recall an event, I use experiential memory. When I use an
earlier-instantiated step in an argument to combine with an inference
rule, I rely on purely preservative memory.
I introduced substantive...
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Inferential Deflationism
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 529–578.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., evidence preservation and commitment preservation are, strictly speaking, properties of rules, not of particular inferences. Thus, the fact that there is one case where one may have evidence for the premise of a truth rule without having evidence for its conclusion suffices to establish that the truth...
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The Lottery Paradox, Knowledge, and Rationality
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (3): 373–408.
Published: 01 July 2000
... : 355 -72. Reprinted in The Theory of Knowledge, ed. L. Pojman, 144-153 (Boston: Wadsworth, 1999). Harman, Gilbert. 1968 . “Knowledge, Inference, and Explanation.” American Philosophical Quarterly 5 : 164 -73. ____. 1973 . Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ____. 1986...
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When Transmission Fails
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 497–529.
Published: 01 October 2010
... on the Acquisition of Warrant by Inference.” In New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge , ed. Susana Nuccetelli, 57 –78. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ———. 2004 . “Warrant for Nothing (and Foundations for Free)?” Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 78 : 167 –212. ———. 2008 . “The Perils...
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Hume's Reason
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (4): 572–575.
Published: 01 October 2003
... syllogistic logic and compan-
ion forms of inference. Hume is said to have refined their nonformal accounts
of inference, adopting a naturalistic theory. Owen argues that all three philos-
ophers had a conception of human reasoning different from today’s models of
deductive validity.
It is not clear...
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Quantification and Epistemic Modality
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 433–485.
Published: 01 October 2018
... the puzzle is a puzzle. 3 But the validity of that reasoning also follows from relatively modest assumptions about the semantics of the expressions involved. Consider, for example, the inference from (1)–(3) to (4). Let c be a context of utterance relative to which (1)–(3) are all true, and let o...
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