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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 241–261.
Published: 01 April 2001
... of Logic 7 (1986): 143 -54. Warmbrōd, K. 1999 . “Logical Constants.” Mind 108 : 503 -36. Cornell University 2001 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 2 (April 2001)
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The Formal-Structural View Of Logical Consequence...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 537–589.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., the fundamental properties and relations are the primitive constants in the language of reality, from which all other properties and relations can be defined; they are the vocabulary God would need in order to write the “book of the world” ( Sider 2011 ). The metaphor of reality as a language is one...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 149–177.
Published: 01 April 2012
... of the two outcomes hypothesis results.
11. This removes the need for a Principle of Indifference defended in Bradley 2011a.
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Four Problems about Self-Locating Belief
2.2. Fine-Tuning
If the fundamental constants of the universe had been much...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 243–258.
Published: 01 April 2002
....” Theoria 35 : 1 -11. ____. 1974 . “On Characterizing Elementary Logic.” In Logical Theory and Semantic Analysis , edited by S. Stenlund (Dordrecht: D. Reidel), 129 -46. McCarthy, Timothy. 1981 . “The Idea of a Logical Constant.” Journal of Philosophy 78 : 499 -523. McGee, Vann. 2001...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 273–277.
Published: 01 April 2018
... . “ Ontological Nihilism .” In Oxford Studies in Metaphysics , vol. 6 , 3 – 54 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . 1. To be precise, let S be the collection of all sentential constants. The first kind of sentence, which has the form “ ∀ Φ … p ◃ Φ ,” where “ ◃ ” stands...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 173–238.
Published: 01 April 2023
... for that relation in the outermost connected region of gray. The last clause is inductive because we may assume we know what diagrams, and thus also holes, are associated with σ 1 … σ n . Labels will typically be drawn from a signature of nonlogical constants of some language. Once each...
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Published: 01 July 2023
in those possibilities. Right: The matrix H represents (constant) prior probabilities; the matrix H ˜ represents posteriors: row i column j is the probability, in world i , that it is rational to assign to being in world j . Thus the third row of H ˜ says
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 1–49.
Published: 01 January 2022
... of entropy, PH remains vague: there will be borderline lawful worlds with features of genuine fuzziness. An exact version of PH (which I call the Strong Past Hypothesis) contains an objectionable kind of arbitrariness not found in any other fundamental laws or dynamical constants—its exact boundary leaves...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 536–541.
Published: 01 October 2017
... of these terms to the meaning (and truth-conditions) of the propositions in which they occurred” (102). It may be tempting to equate the medieval notion of a syncategorema with that of a logical constant. However, Spruyt and Dutilh Novaes are at pains to distinguish the two. First, the class...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 525–554.
Published: 01 October 2008
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classified with constant terms (such as ‘0 while pronouns (such as
‘he’) are usually allied with variables (such as ‘x The argument for
this is elementary. Whereas proper names and constants have only one
kind of occurrence in a sentence or formula, pronouns, like...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 303–307.
Published: 01 April 2021
... two types of events. It is not even a cause. (It makes no sense to think of observing the constant conjunction of a probabilistic relation with desires, as Hume would require us to do if one is to be the cause of the other.) We are warranted in attributing a power to an object only on the basis...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 January 2001
... this justification here.’O My
aim here is just to show that (contrary to what many noncognitivists
have claimed) it is possible to give a plausible truth-conditional
semantics for moral terms.
3. An Example of Conceptual Role Semantics: The Logical Constants
There are many different versions...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 356–362.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., and insist that the concept of truth is . . . fundamental to our usual understanding of classical logic, through both the standard truth-conditional account of the meanings of the classical logical constants and the standard Tarskian account of logical consequence as generalized truth-preservation. (340...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 270–272.
Published: 01 April 2001
... at are the three rules of morality
Descartes outlines in the 4 August 1645 letter to Elisabeth-to judge as well as
one can in deciding what to do, to have a firm and constant resolution to
adhere to one’s decisions, and to recognize that not everything is in one’s
power. These are then distilled...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (3): 361–399.
Published: 01 July 2007
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Eligibility and Inscrutability
theory, θ contains either S or its negation), and it is “fully witnessed” (for
every existential formula ∃xφx it contains, it contains a “witnessing” for-
mula φc, for some constant c).
To obtain a fully witnessed theory, we might...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 272–275.
Published: 01 April 2001
... worry about personal identity
(25-33). Hume observes that the contents of consciousness continually suc-
ceed one another and that, therefore, there is no constant and invariable
impression to serve as the basis of a representation of the identical self
throughout the succession. According...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 433–485.
Published: 01 October 2018
... is the winning ticket. ⋄ r = w Unlike the argument from (4) to (5), this argument is invalid on standard versions of quantified modal logic (constant or varying domain) that permit nonrigid terms. 10 Now, how should an advocate of this framework respond to our puzzle? If (1)–(3) entail (5...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (4): 533–569.
Published: 01 October 2015
... it either in the constant union and conjunction of like objects, or in the inference of the mind from the one to the other” (T 2.3.2.4; SBN 409, italics in original). It follows that an association between two perceptions consists in their contiguity and succession, together with either a “constant...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 385–443.
Published: 01 July 2008
... little risk
of misunderstanding. (I have made the simplifying assumption that the second-order
language under discussion contains no function letters or individual constants.)
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 393–398.
Published: 01 July 2017
... knowledge, even as an unattainable ideal. According to his rival methodology, science ideally aims not at demonstration but at inductive “proof”—that is, inductive inference from a perfectly constant conjunction that we have experienced. De Pierris argues that Hume belongs in the Newtonian camp, based...
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