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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 393–406.
Published: 01 July 2015
... that probabilism isn't to blame for the failure of rational introspection and that Caie's modified accuracy criterion conflicts with Dutch book considerations, is scoring rule dependent, and leads to the failure of rational introspection. © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 probabilism rational requirements...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 243–258.
Published: 01 April 2002
... these are her
claims that I reject the formal-structural account (hereafter FS),
because it licenses “unnatural” logical constants, and that I consider
the “truth-functional criterion” for connectives “a paradigm of a suc-
cessful criterion of logicality” (250). Both of these claims are simply
false...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 241–261.
Published: 01 April 2001
..., (a) prevents it from capturing the intuitive concept of log-
ical consequence, (b) renders it inconsistent (by conflicting with one
of its own principles, namely, the indifference of logic to empirical
knowledge of individuals in a given universe of discourse), and (c)
leads to a criterion for logical...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 167–172.
Published: 01 January 2023
... this criterion should presumably think that both Physical Foundationalism and Physical Eliminativism are better explanations than Ontologically Neutral Monism. The Complete-Explanation Criterion . Suppose potential explanations E1 and E2 would both explain some explanandum, but E1 would do so while...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 290–293.
Published: 01 April 2000
... between
knowledge, truth, and understanding, the status of classical logic, the an-
alytic/synthetic distinction, and the empiricist criterion of cognitive signif-
icance. On each of these topics, Tennant offers a number of valuable in-
sights, and the book as a whole is a fine example of clarity...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 399–410.
Published: 01 July 2005
... criterion of personhood. She
reverses the usual order of argument here by arguing from an ethical concep-
tion of personhood to a metaphysical (but explicitly normative) analysis of per-
sonal identity. Because she seeks “compelling” reasons for adopting the
normative analysis, she requires that her...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 359–398.
Published: 01 July 2005
..., are individuated by Frege’s criterion of difference
for senses; but the contents of perceptions are not individu-
ated by Frege’s criterion.
Most attention has been focused on these seven arguments.7 Oppo-
nents of nonconceptual content have, however, put forward a few pos-
itive arguments...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (2): 129–168.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that is not explained by Kant’s appeal to our pure forms of sensibility or owes us a criterion for distinguishing those synthetic a priori claims that require explanation from those that do not. Either would be a substantial commitment. But consider a particular and reasonably plausible candidate: that the synthetic...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 235–266.
Published: 01 April 2000
..., there is still much
disagreement over the import of the immediacy criterion that Kant
sets for int~ition.~
I will argue that this debate has been hampered by misunder-
standing of Kant’s notion of a mark. Examining the account of
marks he develops in his writings on logic leads to a new reading...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 421–479.
Published: 01 October 2017
... broadly, a theory is teleological if its criterion for the permissibility of actions is that they are the best feasible ones, according to some underlying axiological theory, though not necessarily one that focuses on consequences alone. Assessments of goodness or betterness could focus, for instance...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 293–295.
Published: 01 April 2000
... based on the so-called
“problem of the criterion,” which alleges that we can have knowledge only
if we possess a criterion for distinguishing between true and false beliefs,
and that we can identify such a criterion only if we indeed have knowledge.
Stroll argues, quite reasonably...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (4): 429–484.
Published: 01 October 2014
.... The basic criterion of adequacy pulls toward a symmetrical account, while the theoretical goals pull toward an asymmetrical account. Let me outline three problems that rely on this internal tension and that together give reason to think that the very idea of DOF is a hopeless one. On the thetic side...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (1): 33–61.
Published: 01 January 2005
...
knowledge claims. This piece of skeptical reasoning is often known as
the problem of the criterion, as it was first used by Pyrrhonist philosophers
to challenge the Stoics’ claim to have found a criterion of truth.8
The threat of skepticism is not the only consideration blocking the
adoption of WR...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 330–335.
Published: 01 April 2021
...) criterion of identity. The book is primarily a contribution to the philosophy of mathematics, given its focus on mathematical objects. But given that the underlying metaontological view is so general, it has applications beyond mathematics—as Linnebo recognizes, even if there is not much discussion...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (3): 434–438.
Published: 01 July 2000
..., but rather a question of discovering rules for ranking con- flicting outcomes measured by a single natural value. The six previously published papers on epistemology deal with the two topics that structured Hellenistic debates: naturalist justifications of knowl- edge (the notion of the criterion of truth...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 311–313.
Published: 01 April 2002
... has little in com-
mon beyond the basic definition with the formal semantics of a modern system.
Leaving aside the so-called 'as of now' inference, whose validity was time-depen-
dent, all valid inferences met both the criterion that it is impossible for the con-
sequent to be false when...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 239–292.
Published: 01 April 2023
... are constant, the costs of evaluation grow exponentially as well. This line of reasoning establishes exponential growth under these assumptions, but some may find the assumptions troubling. The performance criterion is a particular sticking point. While many have argued that human perception is optimal...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 43–87.
Published: 01 January 2023
... defer to others, since when you’re deciding whether to listen to someone, you don’t know whether the propositions in question are true or false. A more useful criterion is the following: 5 Absolute Superiority. One agent takes another to be an absolute superior with respect to some...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 241–244.
Published: 01 April 2014
... of the criterion. Foundational, tracking knowledge blocks the regress of reasons, and it blocks the skeptic's claim that our inability to rule out radical skeptical scenarios undermines everyday knowledge. What about the claim that we can't know we're not in one of the scenarios? And how do we know that our...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 385–443.
Published: 01 July 2008
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are assigned to arithmetical sentences as in note 13, the w-formula
corresponding to any truth of pure arithmetic has a trivial primary
condition.
3.3. A Criterion of Ontological Commitment
To describe a sentence’s ontological commitments is to describe from...
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