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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (2): 129–168.
Published: 01 April 2022
... There is an alternative way of carving up the terrain. Consider an epistemic conception of possibility according to which a claim is epistemically possible just in case it is compatible with what we can know. Both Undecidability and Contingency hold that it is epistemically possible that discursive cognizers with other...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 341–371.
Published: 01 July 2002
... of propositional attitude other than ‘believes’, we get sentences like (6a) and (6b) that fail to be necessarily equivalent: (7a) Amy remembers the proposition that first-order logic is unde- cidable. (7b) Amy remembers that first-order logic is undecidable. These sentences can differ in truth...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 321–326.
Published: 01 April 2011
... in the theoretical apparatus of his book Thinking How to Live, doesn’t explain the difference between thinking two options to both be permissible and equally good (being indifferent) and suspending judgment on whether either of two options is acceptable (being undecided).2 This reviewer was unconvinced...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 326–329.
Published: 01 April 2011
... in the theoretical apparatus of his book Thinking How to Live, doesn’t explain the difference between thinking two options to both be permissible and equally good (being indifferent) and suspending judgment on whether either of two options is acceptable (being undecided).2 This reviewer was unconvinced...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 602–604.
Published: 01 October 2002
..., “Mathematical Objectivity and Mathematical Objects” and “Which Undecidable Mathematical Sentences Have Determinate Truth Valuesare both interesting (especially the latter, which purports to give a principled defense of the fairly common “intuition” that formally undecidable proposi- tions of elementary...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 241–244.
Published: 01 April 2009
... principle, the notion may ultimately be dispensable. The idea is introduced to secure the designation of some faith-propositions as “essentially evidentially undecidable” (139). But I think this requirement, its Jamesian 252 BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 244–247.
Published: 01 April 2009
... principle, the notion may ultimately be dispensable. The idea is introduced to secure the designation of some faith-propositions as “essentially evidentially undecidable” (139). But I think this requirement, its Jamesian 252 BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 247–250.
Published: 01 April 2009
... on the notion of a highest- order framing principle, the notion may ultimately be dispensable. The idea is introduced to secure the designation of some faith-propositions as “essentially evidentially undecidable” (139). But I think this requirement, its Jamesian 252...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 250–253.
Published: 01 April 2009
... principle, the notion may ultimately be dispensable. The idea is introduced to secure the designation of some faith-propositions as “essentially evidentially undecidable” (139). But I think this requirement, its Jamesian 252 BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 253–255.
Published: 01 April 2009
... principle, the notion may ultimately be dispensable. The idea is introduced to secure the designation of some faith-propositions as “essentially evidentially undecidable” (139). But I think this requirement, its Jamesian 252 BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 256–258.
Published: 01 April 2009
... principle, the notion may ultimately be dispensable. The idea is introduced to secure the designation of some faith-propositions as “essentially evidentially undecidable” (139). But I think this requirement, its Jamesian 252 BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 259–261.
Published: 01 April 2009
... principle, the notion may ultimately be dispensable. The idea is introduced to secure the designation of some faith-propositions as “essentially evidentially undecidable” (139). But I think this requirement, its Jamesian 252 BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 261–266.
Published: 01 April 2009
... principle, the notion may ultimately be dispensable. The idea is introduced to secure the designation of some faith-propositions as “essentially evidentially undecidable” (139). But I think this requirement, its Jamesian 252 BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 266–269.
Published: 01 April 2009
... principle, the notion may ultimately be dispensable. The idea is introduced to secure the designation of some faith-propositions as “essentially evidentially undecidable” (139). But I think this requirement, its Jamesian 252 BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 269–273.
Published: 01 April 2009
... principle, the notion may ultimately be dispensable. The idea is introduced to secure the designation of some faith-propositions as “essentially evidentially undecidable” (139). But I think this requirement, its Jamesian 252 BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 273–276.
Published: 01 April 2009
... principle, the notion may ultimately be dispensable. The idea is introduced to secure the designation of some faith-propositions as “essentially evidentially undecidable” (139). But I think this requirement, its Jamesian 252 BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 425–427.
Published: 01 July 2003
... to believe mathematics is true, and how it is that we come to know these truths. In the later work, a radical position is adopted according to which mathematics stands in no need of justification external to mathematics itself. The main focus of the discussion is on undecidable questions in set theory...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 119–152.
Published: 01 January 2015
... could be astronomically large: it may contain as many symbols as there are atoms in the Milky Way galaxy. Finally, and more speculatively, even if the description of H is finite and of manageable length, it is still possible that it is formally undecidable , 33 or computationally intractable...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (3): 339–342.
Published: 01 July 2014
... that Aristotle's texts ultimately leave it undecided whether the cognition, pleasure, and desire are all three (aspects of) some one thing, or whether some looser metaphysical relations obtain among them (24–36, esp. n. 9). However these relations are to be understood, Moss insists that the cognitive element...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 290–293.
Published: 01 April 2000
... and program- matic, is in many places quite illuminating. Tennant argues that the man- ifestation argument yields a crucial implication: from a requirement of manifestation and a supposition of bivalence to decidability. He cites the well-known undecidability of arithmetic to argue...