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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 2. Self-Indication. More
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 325–349.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Anthony S. Gillies What we want to be true about ordinary indicative conditionals seems to be more than we can possibly get: there just seems to be no good way to assign truth-conditions to ordinary indicative conditionals. Some take this argument as reason to make our wantings more modest. Others...
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 2. The right diagram depicts epistemic accessibility given the pattern of comparative normality depicted on the left. It only depicts what is epistemically accessible from the situations in bold. Triple arrows indicate what is accessible under all three of k- , km- , and i-normality More
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 49–75.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Stephen S. Bush Nicomachean Ethics presents a puzzle as to whether Aristotle views morally virtuous activity as happiness, as book 1 seems to indicate, or philosophical contemplation as happiness, as book 10 seems to indicate. The most influential attempts to resolve this issue have been either...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 539–571.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Richard Bradley Adams’s Thesis, the claim that the probabilities of indicative conditionals equal the conditional probabilities of their consequents given their antecedents, has proven impossible to accommodate within orthodox possible-world semantics. This essay proposes a modification...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 577–617.
Published: 01 October 2013
...John Mackay A person of average height would assert a truth by the conditional ‘if I were seven feet tall, I would be taller than I am,’ in which an indicative clause ‘I am’ is embedded in a subjunctive conditional. By contrast, no one would assert a truth by ‘if I were seven feet tall, I would...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2008
...'-claims, they say, only get truth-values with respect to contexts, indices, and—the new wrinkle—points of assessment (hence, cia ). Here we argue against such “relativist” semantics. We begin with a sketch of the motivation for such theories and a generic formulation of them. Then we catalogue central...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 153–181.
Published: 01 April 2009
... connections between wholly distinct things would be mysterious and inexplicable indicate that there must be some such necessary connections. Thus, in the absence of alternative support, there is no reason to believe the Humean claim. Cornell University 2009 Barnett, David. 2005 . “The Problem...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 323–369.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Alice was saying “You should vote for me.” But if she instead asserted ( Vote Myself  ), it would sound like she was saying “You should vote for yourself.” Yet why should these have different interpretations if ‘me’ and ‘myself’ necessarily codenote? Exhibit D: Indicatives. Our next observation...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 January 2018
...), and in particular over the central notion of body-taken-in-general. 5 I indicated at the outset that there are competing monist and pluralist interpretations of this notion. We can begin with a classic version of the monist interpretation in Descartes selon l'ordre des raisons , Martial Gueroult's commentary...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 139–144.
Published: 01 January 2020
... is certain . Beyond the type-shifting operator ‘ C ’, there is additional syntactic enrichment of LFs in Moss's picture, in the service of a very flexible brand of contextualism. On her semantics, epistemic operators, conditionals, and logical operators carry hidden indices which, relative to g c...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 132–136.
Published: 01 January 2017
... it is for us to represent. In the simplest cases, we represent by referring to objects, indicating properties, and predicating the properties of objects. For example, to represent Sanders as being electable is to refer to Sanders, indicate the property of being electable, and predicate the property...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 167–171.
Published: 01 January 2021
.... The problem is that from this theoretical perspective sincerity is valuable only insofar as it marks the absence of insincerity—insofar as it lets the testimony pass as a genuine indication of belief (thereby leading to the question of competence). It would be better if the audience did not have to rely...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 449–452.
Published: 01 July 2002
... BOOK REVIEWS The response to this paradox that Dahlstrom extracts from Heidegger’s writings in the mid- to late-1920s is to construe philosophical remarks as “for- mal indications.” While it is difficult to summarize Dahlstrom’s interpretation of Heidegger’s notion, the essential feature...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 241–294.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Figure 2. Self-Indication. ...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 January 2022
... for incorporation into a unified view of indicative and subjunctive conditionals appear dimmer than those of contextualist possible-worlds views. Williamson’s book is broadly organized as a defense of the material interpretation against these two challenges. All material conditionals with false antecedents...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 603–632.
Published: 01 October 2007
... it to everyone, not bother providing the component when doing so is too expensive, or provide more of other components instead? (And how much more? Of which other components?) The point is not merely that the theories are thus incomplete. More important, there is little indication of how in principle...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 359–406.
Published: 01 July 2012
...-Sensitive .” In Epistemic Modality , ed. Egan A. Weatherson B. , 144 – 78 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Ninan Dilip . 2008 . “ Imagination, Content, and the Self .” PhD diss. , MIT . Nolan Daniel . 2003 . “ Defending a Possible-Worlds Account of Indicative...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 429–435.
Published: 01 July 2002
...’ for both urteilen and beurteilen, every occurrence of beurteilen is flagged. And, in many other cases where divergences are not indicated on a passage by passage basis, these divergences are often indicated in a general way in the glos- saries or in the introduction (where, for example, Guyer makes...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 337–382.
Published: 01 July 2011
..., the prima facie moral obligation is said to be equally counterbalanced by the countervailing considerations. 339 PETER A. GRAHAM of ‘ought Suppose all of my evidence indicates that I can save ten inno- cent people from being gruesomely killed...