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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 241–261.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Gila Sher Cornell University 2001 Aristotle. Topics, book 1. In The Basic Works of Aristotle , ed. R. McKeon, 188 -206. New York: Random House, 1941 . Feferman, S. 1999 . “Logic, Logics, and Logicism.” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 40 : 31 -54. Frege, G. 1879...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 1–58.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Christian Onof; Dennis Schulting In his argument for the possibility of knowledge of spatial objects, in the Transcendental Deduction of the B-version of the Critique of Pure Reason , Kant makes a crucial distinction between space as “form of intuition” and space as “formal intuition...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 243–258.
Published: 01 April 2002
... of Quantifiers.” Fundamenta Mathematicae 44 : 12 -36. Sher, Gila. 1991 . The Bounds of Logic: A Generalized Viewpoint . Cambridge: MIT Press. ____. 1996 . “Did Tarski Commit `Tarski's fallacy'?” Journal of Symbolic Logic 61 : 653 -86. ____. 2001 . “The Formal-Structural View of Logical...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (1): 63–114.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Seiriol Morgan Cornell University 2005 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 114, No. 1 (January 2005)
The Missing Formal Proof of Humanity’s Radical Evil
in Kant’s Religion
Seiriol Morgan
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (1): 1–43.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., Rutgers University, University of St Andrews, Syracuse University, Yale University, the 2011 Orange Beach Epistemology Workshop, and the 2011 Formal Epistemology Workshop. References Adams Ernest W. 1965 . “ A Logic of Conditionals .” Inquiry 8 ( 1–4 ): 166 – 97 . ———. 1975...
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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 (2017) 126 (4): 421–479.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Franz Dietrich; Christian List This essay presents a new “reason-based” approach to the formal representation of moral theories, drawing on recent decision-theoretic work. It shows that any moral theory within a very large class can be represented in terms of two parameters: (i) a specification...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 263–298.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Figure 2 Formal constraints on permissible regions. ...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 207–245.
Published: 01 April 2011
... and Brier scoring. Using one measure of reliability, it can be shown that necessarily, meeting halfway is the more reliable rule. Using another measure of reliability, it can be shown that generally, belief-invariance is the more reliable rule. This article argues from these formal results that belief...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 247–283.
Published: 01 April 2011
... in natural languages and in standard artificial languages. For those of us who think sentences with different logical forms express different propositions, it would mean that no proposition expressed in a typical formal language is expressible in any natural language. The article begins by clarifying...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 119–152.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Christian List; Marcus Pivato This article offers a new argument for the claim that there can be nondegenerate objective chance in a deterministic world. Using a formal model of the relationship between different levels of description of a system, the article shows how objective chance at a higher...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 151–196.
Published: 01 April 2018
...″ tall, and why we can say “Ellen has a hat like the one Sherlock Holmes always wears” without implying Holmes exists or has a hat. This article presents a simple formalism for understanding this pragmatic mechanism, specifying how, in context, the result of such subtractions is determined. And it shows...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 579–627.
Published: 01 October 2023
... forms, occupying opposite poles on a spectrum of naturalness. Symbolic rules are composed entirely of primitive juxtapositions of sign types with contents, while iconic rules determine contents entirely by uniform natural relations with sign types. This distinction is marked explicitly in the formal...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 33–71.
Published: 01 January 2024
.... This article defends a reinterpretation of the concept that explains this unity. The various features of alienated labor, the article argues, all follow from a single, hitherto underappreciated feature of its formal motivational structure: the fact that such labor is motivated not by its product...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 273–313.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of pred-
ication. Such a mode is here understood as a certain way of predicating
a property of an object. First, some terminology. By adopting the sortal-
sensitive perspective on an ordinary object, a speaker employs the formal
mode of predication when describing the object. By adopting the sortal...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 25–65.
Published: 01 January 2002
...: Cambridge University Press. Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb. 1757 . Metaphysica . Reprinted (with Kant's marginal notes) in Kant Ak 17. Beth, E. W. 1961 . Semantic Entailment and Formal Derivability . Amsterdam: North Holland. Bolzano, Bernard. 1837 . Wissenschaftslehre . 2d ed. Ed. Wolfgang...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 January 2023
... kinds of modality are then considered in light of this connection. [email protected] © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 Kant existence modality Barcan de re/de dicto logical possibility empirical possibility formal possibility real possibility a priori grounding...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 143–148.
Published: 01 January 2016
...). Perhaps future developments of this framework will attempt to account for more of these constraints in a systematic manner, but for now this is an honest way of dealing with the limitations of any formal framework. The first two systematic constraints are synchronic while the other two constraints...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 371–375.
Published: 01 July 2019
...? While these observations do not imply that the connection must be definable in logico-mathematical terms, that it is thus definable has been deemed a further reasonable assumption by most formally inclined philosophers. The pre-theoretically most plausible formalization—to conceive of categorical...
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