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In the fifth chapter of Making It Explicit (especially pp. 346–350), Brandom introduces a substitutional strategy to identify equivalence classes of sentences with the same inferential content, ...
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Sometimes I wonder if we have lost patience for slow thinking. Some philosophers remind me of mathematicians: they do not rush, they build long chains of reasoning step by step. Each step feels small, ...
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Hume seems to believe that inference, which is the derivation of a novel set of facts from a given one, must be based on causality, and that causality cannot be arrived at via propositions that fall ...
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In A causal theory of knowing, Alvin Goldman writes: I am inclined to say that inference is a causal process, that is, that when someone bases his belief of one proposition on his belief of a set of ...
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People use "no smoke without fire" to argue that the metaphorical smoke must be caused by some metaphorical fire. If there is fire, there would be smoke If there is smoke, there would be ...
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In the book A Profile of Mathematical Logic from Howard DeLong in § 16, Primary logic, the Propositional calculus, I noticed two teachings quoted below: To each valid argument there corresponds a ...
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As an example, an enormous amount of effort seems to go into thinking about solipsism. In my view, and as an example, solipsism is easily eliminated by reasonable inference. Reasonable inference is a ...
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(Apologies if my views on logical inference are overly simplistic -- I'm a radiologist by profession, very far from a philosophy major. My goal is to understand what medical decisions are and where ...
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I was reading Dretske's text on 'Is knowledge closed under known entailment?' and I saw him using the material conditional while claiming entailment. But, in my head these two seem different. Since ...
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Are all coherent inferences deductive, inductive or abductive? If I justify a belief (to some degree) to myself, and it is not the best explanation, I am not deducing it from any premise, and it is ...
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There's linguistic meaning, and then there's meaning in the sense of purpose. I want to talk about a kind of non-linguistic, non-purposeful meaning. Let me give a few examples. You see that the lower ...
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Is religious authority justified? I mean religious broadly thought, as something that may be a mystic non-inferential claim (and I'm especially interesting in these). An inference is the process of ...
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I was reading this answer on how Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference can be used to posit the more correct theory amongst a set that provide the expected "answer", where the shorter, ...
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Section 4.3 of "Sentence Connectives in Formal Logic" discusses a concept of demi-negation or what is (for the sake of the text) resolved to a concept of "the square root of negation&...
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What is a rule of inductive inference? I'm not looking for any examples, but for definitions - what makes the logical form of an inductive argument a rule of inductive inference?
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