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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 277–284.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Robert Van Gulick In “Absent Qualia and the Mind-Body Problem,” Michael Tye (2006) presents an argument by which he claims to show the inconceivability of beings that are functionally equivalent to phenomenally conscious beings but lack any qualia. On that basis, he concludes that qualia can...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 131–171.
Published: 01 April 2014
... is equivalent to the assignment of a stably high rational degree of belief. Although the logical closure of belief and the Lockean thesis are attractive postulates in themselves, initially this may seem like a formal “curiosity”; however, as will be argued in the rest of the essay, a very reasonable theory...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 325–349.
Published: 01 July 2009
... take it to show that indicative conditionals don't have truth-conditions in the first place. But we have overlooked two possibilities for assigning truth-conditions to indicatives. What's more, those possibilities deliver what we want and turn out to be equivalent. Cornell University 2009...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (3): 223–263.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Nicholas DiBella This article proposes a revision of Cantor’s account of set size that understands comparisons of set size fundamentally in terms of surjections rather than injections. This revised account is equivalent to Cantor’s account if the axiom of choice is true, but its consequences differ...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 173–238.
Published: 01 April 2023
... representation in a novel language. In the latter half of the paper I turn to some technical questions concerning the treatment of quantification and demonstrate various equivalences between the diagrammatic and logical representations and a fragment of the λ -calculus. [email protected] © 2023 by Cornell...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 323–369.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of a counteridentical with the more explicit ‘were identical to’ generally does not seem to result in an equivalent sentence. Consider the following two sentences, for example: ( Button ) If I were you, I would not push that button. ( Button = ) If I were identical to you, I would not push that button. It feels...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 1–61.
Published: 01 January 2019
..., a contradiction. 44. At least in a context where there is more than one flea, so that the same flea cannot be both biggest and smallest. 45. The local context for q in ⌜The(p)(q)⌝ entails p , according to our algorithm; we can see this by noting the felt equivalence between ⌜The(p)(q)⌝ and ⌜The(p...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 371–398.
Published: 01 July 2018
... major attitudes are possible. First, there is monism : there is only one adequate measure (or equivalence class of measures) of causal strength. Second, there is pluralism : no single measure satisfies all the conditions that an adequate measure of causal strength should possess. This is perhaps...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 537–589.
Published: 01 October 2020
... something with the same type as M . Higher-order logic—more specifically, the principle β -equivalence discussed below—allows us to prove the identity ( λM ) c 1 … c n = M . Thus we may think of M as being defined out of the constants c 1 … c n via the logical operation λM . In order...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 81–122.
Published: 01 January 2017
... confusion about their views with unhelpful terminological choices. Both conceptual relativity and quantifier variance involve not only the metasemantic view that I'm calling quantifier deflationism and its attendant pluralism but also claims of egalitarianism and equivalence between different quantifier...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 151–196.
Published: 01 April 2018
... = ( p – q ) ∧ q holds; that is to say, content subtraction is not just an inverse of content addition or conjunction. For example, (2)’s literal content p 2 is not equivalent to ( p 2 – q 2 ) ∧ q 2 : since p 2 is true in worlds where Holmes and Ellen both wear a sombrero, it fails to entail...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 241–294.
Published: 01 July 2022
... . Each universe is in exactly one world, and each center is in exactly one universe. 4. An equivalence relation between universes of intrinsic duplication . 5. An equivalence relation between centers of evidential equivalence. In what follows we restrict attention to the case where...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (3): 441–463.
Published: 01 July 2007
... e is like [Lormand’s (14
(where e is a mental event), begins with a case for its equivalence to (2):
(2) e is like something for its subject [Lormand’s (4
I will grant this equivalence. Lormand argues—to my mind, convinc-
ingly 5—that (2) has the structure of a clause (3) in the scope...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 307–310.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., “truth-conditionally equivalent
languages are of equal metaphysical merit” (xii). By “truth-conditionally equiv-
alent,” Hirsh means sameness of intensional expressive power. As long as two
languages allow us to carve the space of possible worlds in the same ways, QV
entails that they are of equal...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 314–317.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., “truth-conditionally equivalent
languages are of equal metaphysical merit” (xii). By “truth-conditionally equiv-
alent,” Hirsh means sameness of intensional expressive power. As long as two
languages allow us to carve the space of possible worlds in the same ways, QV
entails that they are of equal...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 318–322.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., “truth-conditionally equivalent
languages are of equal metaphysical merit” (xii). By “truth-conditionally equiv-
alent,” Hirsh means sameness of intensional expressive power. As long as two
languages allow us to carve the space of possible worlds in the same ways, QV
entails that they are of equal...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 322–325.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., “truth-conditionally equivalent
languages are of equal metaphysical merit” (xii). By “truth-conditionally equiv-
alent,” Hirsh means sameness of intensional expressive power. As long as two
languages allow us to carve the space of possible worlds in the same ways, QV
entails that they are of equal...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 325–327.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., there is the eponymous claim: quantifier variance (QV). Accord-
ing to Hirsch’s most recent gloss of QV, “truth-conditionally equivalent
languages are of equal metaphysical merit” (xii). By “truth-conditionally equiv-
alent,” Hirsh means sameness of intensional expressive power. As long as two
languages allow us...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 421–479.
Published: 01 October 2017
... consequentialization deontic equivalence underdetermination choice theory © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 We have not made any special assumptions about the nature of the options that are available in each context K . They are simply drawn from some underlying set X of possible options. This could...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 310–314.
Published: 01 April 2013
... recent discussion of his views.
First, there is the eponymous claim: quantifier variance (QV). Accord-
ing to Hirsch’s most recent gloss of QV, “truth-conditionally equivalent
languages are of equal metaphysical merit” (xii). By “truth-conditionally equiv-
alent,” Hirsh means sameness...
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