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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (4): 379–428.
Published: 01 October 2014
..., it is indeterminate which of I am Scotty 1 or I am Scotty 2 is true, as thought by the preaccident Scotty stage. Thus, in asking whether preaccident Scotty should take the broker's deal, we have another situation of decision making under indeterminacy. I will argue that we can achieve Lewisian Reconciliation...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 43–79.
Published: 01 January 2017
... indeterminate identity and indeterminate synonymy—and argues that each is unsatisfactory. © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 7. See Lewis 1986, 212 , and Braun and Sider 2007 . 8. Other potential sources of RI include Putnam's (1981) “model-theoretic” considerations...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (1): 1–54.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Michael Caie An attractive approach to the semantic paradoxes holds that cases of semantic pathology give rise to indeterminacy. What attitude should a rational agent have toward a proposition that it takes to be indeterminate in this sense? Orthodoxy holds that rationality requires that an agent...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 1–58.
Published: 01 January 2015
....” The traditional interpretation regards the distinction between the two notions as reflecting a distinction between indeterminate space and determinations of space by the understanding, respectively. By contrast, a recent influential reading has argued that the two notions can be fused into one and that space...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 565–591.
Published: 01 October 2010
... Watkins's more specific claims that Kant completely rejects a model on which the first relatum of a phenomenal causal relation is an event and that he maintains that real grounds are metaphysically and not just epistemically indeterminate. © 2010 by Cornell University 2010 Our thanks are owed...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 299–352.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of problems. Although revenge paradoxes of different strengths can be formulated, they are found to be indeterminate at higher orders and not inconsistent. © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 revenge paradox semantic paradox higher-order indeterminacy determinacy operators truth According...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 489–495.
Published: 01 July 2020
... to favor an antirealist interpretation of epsilon terms, whereby they are used not to define the content of epsilon terms but rather define whether the content of such terms is determinate or indeterminate (see 164–66). According to this supervaluational approach, we let each possible selection function...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 119–152.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Figure 1 Emergent indeterminism ...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 320–325.
Published: 01 April 2023
... for a conditional claim: if the future is open, we should adopt a particular bivalent approach to openness. Cariani first argues against venerable, Aristotelian approach, where future claims have a third indeterminate truth value, when the future is open. This view faces a puzzle about assertion and the open...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (2): 279–283.
Published: 01 April 2004
... a modification
that appears to successfully patch up the argument. He then proceeds—
despite his own libertarian beliefs—to explain why indeterministic agent cau-
sation, even if real, would be of little help in understanding free will. In a vari-
ant on the traditional charge that indeterminism could do...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 January 2019
... worry that these considerations do not give especially strong support to (AF) over its rivals. For, as you will recall, what is distinctive about (AF) is the idea that vision is partly future-tensed. But vision could obviously be perspectival and substantially indeterminate without being in any way...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 472–475.
Published: 01 July 2001
... but that are part of her experience nonetheless).
The problem is that outline shapes cannot determine the pictorial
contents we enjoy. One way to bring this out is to consider indeterminate
styles (as well as exaggerated styles such as caricatures), as Hopkins does in
fine-tuning the proposal...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 338–343.
Published: 01 April 2023
... are vague since there are borderline cases in which it is indeterminate whether something plays the relevant role. Since materialism identifies consciousness with (or grounds it in) vague properties, it is committed to the vagueness of consciousness. The problem is that it is not vague whether something...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (4): 583–589.
Published: 01 October 2015
... whatsoever . . . [but] no order, no connectedness, no parts making up wholes, no space objectively and determinately above or below . . . just sheer, purely aesthetic spatial outsideness ( juxtaposition) as such” (117–18). Waxman's view of the radical indeterminateness of aesthetic space and time follows...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 525–544.
Published: 01 October 2000
... sufficiency clearly doesn’t satisfy this condi-
tion, and the possibility of indeterminism prevents either counter-
factual sufficiency or causal sufficiency from satisfying it either. And
given the invalidity of p*, p must also be in~a1id.l~
2.2 A Counterexample to p
Given the above example...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 532–536.
Published: 01 October 2022
... with her general view, that here, too, there are fewer associated powers than are had by the corresponding determinates, which appears to suggest that the effects associated with an object’s indeterminate boundaries will themselves be indeterminate to an extent—thereby widening the scope of metaphysical...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 315–336.
Published: 01 July 2010
...
not obtain; more specifically, assume that indeterminism obtains (at the
relevant point, whatever that is taken to be) in the sequence that leads to
the choice and action. Now how can Black’s device help Black to know
that Jones will choose to vote on his own for Obama (and indeed vote
for Obama on his...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2005
... is not ⌽’ are not true;
they are also not false, and so are neither true nor false. Various non-
classical semantics have been introduced to capture the meanings of
sentences that are neither true nor false, including such devices as
supervaluations, indefinite or indeterminate values, truth-value gaps,
and degrees...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 1–49.
Published: 01 January 2022
... has exactly 5,250 hairs on his head? There are determinate cases of “bald,” but there are also borderline cases of “bald.” In other words, predicates such as “bald” are indeterminate: there are individuals such that it is indeterminate whether they are bald. 1 Moreover, the boundary between “bald...
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