... causal finitism allows us to eliminate a large class of paradoxes. There are broadly two types of paradoxes Pruss aims to eliminate. The first consists in paradoxes where an infinity of physical things cooperate to produce a paradoxical situation. The paradigm is the Grim Reaper paradox. The second type...

... include ‘greedy-like’, ‘grim-like smile’, ‘square-like room’, ‘herbaceous-like shrub’, ‘sublime-like beauty’, ‘gluey-like material’, and so on. This usage is not only a survival of earlier Scotch usage,8 but of a much more extended usage in English: in fact, the ubiquitous use of the suffix ‘-ly...

..., and infers that “the most viable form of political innovation will be … of an incremental kind towards the ‘mean’ of polity” (119). Even polity will be hard to bring about, however, and a grim picture emerges in which unjust democracies and oligarchies will likely prevail, and that “the best that can...

..., Marlene K. 2006. Political Emotions: Aristotle and the Symphony of Reason and Emotion. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 217 pp. Solomon, Robert C. 2006. Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts: Experience and Refl ection in Camus and Sartre. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 241 pp. Sprigge, T...

... of being (-like, suffi x, 2.a., L-287) Modern (nineteenth- and twentieth-century) examples given include ‘greedy-like’, ‘grim-like smile’, ‘square-like room’, ‘herbaceous-like shrub’, ‘sublime-like beauty’, ‘gluey-like material’, and so on. This usage is not only...

... Grim, Peter Ludlow, and Gary Mar. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2003. Pp. viii, 325. Richard Rorty. Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. By Charles Guignon and David R. Hiley, editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 205. Dispositional Theories of Knowledge: A Defence...

..., the point seems to have been late to appear in the literature. The earliest example I can find is Grim 1984 , which employs Cantor's Theorem. Menzel (2012) is the first to note how Russell's paradox of propositions yields a disproof of the existence of a maximal consistent set of all true propositions...

... doubt, that is, that the proposition that they are so identical is either true or false.24 Such doubt might be both actual and (at least initially) reasonable. The grim consequences of denying the principle of bivalence render such doubt ultimately...

.... At that time, Harriet was happy and preoccupied with her own concerns, and failed to make enough time for Dave. Dave is now neglecting Harriet for the very same reasons that she then neglected him: he is busy with other things, and spending time with a depressed person is grim. Dave does not excuse his own...