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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 83–134.
Published: 01 January 2016
... to. In other words, the operation of Contextual Question-Entailment, and the configuration of the common ground, helps explain the misleading nature of Maria's utterance. As before, that Maria can succeed in misleading is due in part to which QUDs are in place—in this case, the misleadingness is due...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 395–431.
Published: 01 July 2020
... might well want to say that Nour would be better off, epistemically speaking, if she had such a higher-order awareness. 2 Perhaps such an awareness would give Nour’s cognitive economy a greater degree of overall coherence, 3 or a greater robustness against misleading counterevidence. 4 And yet...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 605–609.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., justification from reason can be partial and misleading, and different thinkers will exhibit differences along these dimensions depending on how fully and competently they’ve done their reasoning. According to Smithies, everyone has justification for all and only correct beliefs about logic and evidential...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 439–447.
Published: 01 July 2016
... relativism, that one should retract an assertion that one was permitted to make in the first place? Often one retracts a past assertion so as not to continue to risk misleading the audience one was addressing at the time of the assertion. Suppose Jones asserts on the stump that his political opponent...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 191–226.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of Committing to Believe ‘X’ versus Reevaluating X & E ‘correctly leading positive evidence’ X & not-E ‘misleading negative evidence’ Not-X & E ‘misleading positive evidence’ Not-X & not-E ‘correctly leading negative evidence’ Commit to believe ‘X’ 1 1 0 0 Believe ‘X...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (4): 601–605.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., Kierkegaard's Concept of Faith , is misleading. Some Observations about Faith in Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Authorship would have been more accurate. Westphal has done some excellent work on Kierkegaard, most notably his book God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion ( Westphal...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 January 2009
... Cr0(M | Cr1(M ) = .5) equal to .5. But
Cr0(M ) should be 1—again, you should trust your senses at t0.
Future misleading evidence : Patrick Maher (1992) suggests the fol-
lowing example. You are 90 percent certain that your friend Persi, a
magician, knows the outcome of a fair coin toss. You...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 429–435.
Published: 01 July 2002
...-
posiveness’) is dealt with in Solomonic fashion by using ‘end’ for Zweck and
‘purposiveness’ for Zweckmäßigkeit. This has the advantage of preserving a con-
nection with the term Zweck as it is normally translated in the ethical writings,
while avoiding the misleading neologism ‘finality’ and retaining...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 633–645.
Published: 01 October 2007
... doesn’t think of secondary qualities as real beings that our predicates
ought to track.
At 2.31.2, Locke complains that our terminology is misleading
since “the Things producing in us these simple Ideas, are but few of them
denominated by us, as if they were only the causes of them...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 272–275.
Published: 01 April 2015
... ) You ought to believe that p if and only if you are justified in believing that p. Suppose you have strong, undefeated, and misleading evidence that p. What ought you to believe? (T) says that it is not the case that you ought to believe that p, but ( J) says that you ought to believe that p, so one...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 135–137.
Published: 01 January 2001
..., “transcendental idealism.” Alas, according to Collins, Kant’s own tenden-
cy to refer to his philosophy as “transcendental idealism” is quite unfortunate
and quite misleading. It is misleading because “it suggests that Kant claims
that the domain of objects is just a domain of ideas, that is, of mental...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2008
.... A not-wholly misleading handle is to think of points of assessment as the judge
or point of view relative to which truth-values are assigned. Some recent CIA agents:
Egan, Hawthorne, and Weatherson (2005); Lasersohn (2005); MacFarlane (2004);
Stephenson (forthcoming).
Philosophical...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 268–272.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of people who are willing to sign up for (3-a) without being willing to sign up for (3-b), and I'm not so sure that when they do, it's because (3-b) is a true statement bearing the misleading quantity implicature that (roughly) the only way of being a normally politically enfranchised white person is one...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 600–603.
Published: 01 October 2001
... on Descartes’s theory of space. Bennett may
take a justifiable pride in the accomplishments of the participants in his semi-
nar.
The collection is divided into three parts, entitled “Matter and Substance,”
“Freedom and Necessity,” and “Mind and Consciousness.” These labels are a
little misleading...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 87–91.
Published: 01 January 2024
... psychology, that Stojnić’s opponents need to posit. Linguistic evidence is defeasible because successful interpretation sometimes involves recognizing that you have been given misleading linguistic evidence of a speaker’s intentions. Suppose that John intends to tell you that he and his husband...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (1): 118–122.
Published: 01 January 2005
... perceive it by day or think of it by night.
Moreover, it seems misleading of Alanen to say that innate ideas are mind-inde-
pendent on the ground that they are created by God (136). To speak in these
terms is confusing, unless one recognizes the distinction between causal and
logical independence...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 1–50.
Published: 01 January 2006
... 27 : 76 -105. Beebee, H. 2004 . “Causing and Nothingness.” In Causation and Counterfactuals , ed. J. Collins, N. Hall, and L. Paul, 291 -308. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Block, N. 1995 . “How Heritability Misleads about Race.” Cognition 56 : 99 -128. Cheng, P. W. 1997 . “From...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 289–290.
Published: 01 April 2001
... trajectories, but in the
structure of the idealized dynamical system that leads to the strange attractor
as a consequence. A chapter on the predictive adequacy of the theory (chap-
ter 4) neatly disposes of such grand and misleading claims as those that assert
that the existence of chaotic systems...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 187–217.
Published: 01 April 2007
..., and this
should diminish my trust in it. In this case, it’s obvious that the fact that
one of the watches is on my wrist does not introduce an epistemically
relevant asymmetry.
But perhaps the watch example misleads by introducing a third-
person perspective into the picture: my watch’s mechanism...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 January 2018
... over them without noticing. This is the same worry some might have with Bennett's practice, and it's hard to see how the present method is an improvement on that score. Finally, the authors sometimes offer examples that can be misleading or puzzling. When explaining Berkeley's discussion...
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