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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (3): 371–374.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., specifically as regards the semantics-pragmatics interface for singular terms. Its main idea is that in order to account for the role of linguistic meaning in communication, we will need reflexive semantic contents beside the ordinary, referential ones. The reflexive contents derive from the reflexive...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 27–56.
Published: 01 January 2003
... of ∞ reflexivity
under addition. When the utility of salvation is reflexive under addition,
one cannot increase it by adding something to it. We can see why Pascal
would regard the utility of salvation to be reflexive under addition: as
I noted in section 2, he thought of salvation as the best possible thing...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 365–369.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... 1). Kraus first introduces what she calls Kant’s “basic model of representation.” “Representation” is a relational term, relating a subject and an object of representation. Kraus calls “reflexivity” the relation of a representation to its subject and “referentiality” its relation to its object...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 507–510.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of the centrality of self-reflexive activity to Neoplatonic accounts of freedom and responsibility, Coope offers interpretations of Neoplatonic responses to a number of related puzzles. Among them: how our independent agency is compatible with the Neoplatonic thesis that our souls are parts of a larger psychic...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 January 2005
... to certain objects without holding that the
knower is numerically identical to the object known.
The other route to the identity thesis is via what Gerson calls the “self-reflex-
ivity” of knowledge. Self-reflexivity is captured by a biconditional: a person
knows if and only if he is aware of his...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 134–138.
Published: 01 January 2019
... have said to figure out just what this claim amounts to. In particular, he recognizes that there is something deeply puzzling about the fact that simple unreflective consciousness, which seems to be “flat” and involving nothing but its content, is in some sense reflexive. In the end, though, Strawson...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 323–369.
Published: 01 July 2018
... is an equivalence relation. That means it is reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. Yet the relation in the antecedents of counteridenticals does not seem to be an equivalence relation. For one thing, the order of the terms seems to matter (see Reboul 1996, 172 ). For example, the following do not seem equivalent...
Includes: Supplementary data
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 421–479.
Published: 01 October 2017
... with, y ” or “ x is ranked weakly above y ,” according to ≽. 13 When there exists such a relation, we say that the rightness function is representable by a binary relation . Although this definition does not require ≽ to be transitive and reflexive, the case in which it has these properties...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 130–140.
Published: 01 January 2018
... attention” (ix). After detailing what it consists of for art to be attended to in this way, Wolterstorff attends to it thusly (chapters 10–18) in a series of sociophilosophical vignettes that touch on memorial art, art for religious devotion, art for social protest, work songs, and art-reflexive art. 1...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 598–602.
Published: 01 October 2002
...) and (7), could come apart, and explaining
why he might think and act differently after learning (7) (the subject matter
content of which he already knew), thus requires taking (5) and (7) to have
reflexive content, which represents the perspectival way a person can think about
themself. This content...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (2): 287–289.
Published: 01 April 2016
... at one point that “disgust may not be an emotion at all, but a sensory reflex” (41) without explaining how, say, disgust at a glass of water that one knows had a bug in it five minutes ago could be a sensory reflex. The philosophy is not handled particularly well either. Harry Frankfurt's theory...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (3): 303–357.
Published: 01 July 2004
... to questions about the
stimuli. When asked to reach for objects in blindsight regions, also,
some subjects reflexively pre-orient their hand and fingers in ways
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suited to the specific shapes of the objects. Since most philosophers...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 533–581.
Published: 01 October 2021
... have a good explanatory story containing only true claims, it is unclear how we are to avoid concluding that (10) ( ∃ x ) T ( x ) ≺ ( ∃ x ) T ( x ) is true and thus that there is a reflexive instance of partial ground. [email protected] © 2021 by Cornell...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (2): 151–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
... a normal course of events against which we can describe tokens as having been completed or not. An important feature of (A)-type elements is that they are possible targets for control in contrast with certain reflex responses—for example, the pupillary light reflex. 14 (B) While the initiation...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 183–223.
Published: 01 April 2009
... that confront resemblance accounts and
how rival resemblance accounts attempt to address them.
2. The Difficulties for Resemblance Accounts
Three difficulties for resemblance accounts appear to be relatively easily
overcome. First, as Goodman (1976, 4) noted, resemblance is a reflex-
ive...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 241–261.
Published: 01 April 2001
... to inter-
relations between transitivity, reflexivity, and symmetry, and (4) is valid
due to interrelations between cardinalities.
Properties (functions) such as intersection, inclusion, non-empti-
ness, universality (in a given domain), and so forth I call formal proper-
ties...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 305–308.
Published: 01 April 2023
... in a wider sense, from which it emerges that ressentiment need not be construed primarily as a ‘social sentiment’ directed at other agents. It is more concerned with an agent’s own sense of self, can be directed at the world more generally, and can reflexively light on oneself as the object of blame...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 459–462.
Published: 01 July 2002
... by recourse to that way. Opacity is explained
in the same way as before.
Recanati does not take up the troublesome case of quasi-indicators illus-
trated by ‘she’ in (8), or by the reflexive in
(15) John believes that he himself is courageous.
461...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 173–238.
Published: 01 April 2023
... reflexization, and K takes a proposition and outputs the vacuous property is such that p . (There are variants of C , W , and K for other types as well.) 5. The rules of Abstraction and Application let you introduce λ s into terms and apply terms to one another, and are essential if we...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 375–377.
Published: 01 July 2009
... in his book’s last chapter
(not previously published) entitled “Seneca and Self-Assertion.” In his essay on
the will he had been ready to credit Seneca with a strong interest in reflexivity and
“explicitly reflexive language” (146). In this new essay he declares his preferred
stance...
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