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If, "This sentence is false or meaningless," is non-prime, does it still pose the same revenge threat or a different one?
A non-prime disjunction is one that is true even if none of its disjuncts are; I've seen them come up at least in impossible-worlds talk, but now I'm wondering whether the basic "revenge"1 ...
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Is Kripke truth semantics related to LUB semantics of the Lambda Calculus?
Lambda Calculus semantics are defined over a formal structure of values that are partially ordered with respect a sort of "more defined" relation. The least element is the completely ...
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How does Husserl explain the common perception of an object?
Husserl considers that the intentional term, the noema, is within the immanence of intentional consciousness. (Here, I will not distinguish between noema and object, as some Fregean readings do.) In ...
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What are some noteworthy consequences of a deontic logic extended with the axiom “Ob(A) → Ob(◊A)”?
I think one unsuccessful attempt to construct a form of deontic logic in which the “ought” modal operator implies the “can” modal operator was to include the axiom OBA → ◊A, for an “obligation” ...
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Per Kant's theory of radical evil/religion, is belief in individual saviors the result of a corrupt subconscious process?
Early enough on in the Religion, he does say:
Now there appeared at a certain time among these very people, when they were feeling in full measure all the ills of an hierarchical constitution, and ...
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Does Substitution in Sentential Compounds Preserve Inferential Content in Brandom?
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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Has Priest's conjecture about the axiomatization of truth been solved?
In Priest's The Logic of Paradox he introduces a system of logic in which statements can be
only true,
only false, or
both true and false (paradoxical).
He shows how the reasoning applied in Tarski'...
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Is there an American Transcendentalist throughline
I have been studying the American Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century and the sort-of tale that I find online is that the movement fizzled when Margaret Fuller died in 1850 and the ...
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Camus and the pillar of virtue
I have been reading "The Myth of Sisyphus", and after reading the first 3 chapters cannot help but wonder how Camus' entire philosophy relies heavily on morality and virtuousness.
I agree ...
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Philosophical Perspectives on Selecting Discussion Partners Constructively
What recommendations exist for constructively selecting discussion partners? Nietzsche considered discussions to be decadent, as they expose others, and he rejected them. Schopenhauer, on the other ...
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Trying to understand 4P26 of Spinoza's Ethics: Why is reason the foundation of virtue?
The text of the proposition is:
All efforts which we make through reason are nothing but efforts to understand, and the mind, in so far as it uses reason, adjudges nothing as profitable to itself ...
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Are there any examples of an analytic proposition that can only be stated with the full the predicate calculus?
I'm using a variation on the old meaning of "analytic" where an analytic proposition represents a relationship between concepts and doesn't directly reference objects at all. For convenience,...
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What is the history of the idea of conscience as a homunculus?
What is the historical origin of the mental categorization or anthropomorphization of conscience as a kind of semi-person distinct from, subordinate to, and constitutive of the self?
To clarify: as ...
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According to Aquinas, what is the relationship between the substantial form of a bodily being and its act of existing, ie. its esse?
Consider, for example, an existing bodily being. Because it is bodily, we know that it is composed of prime matter and substantial form. Also, because the bodily being is existing (not just made up in ...
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What is the response of al-Ghazali to Abu Bakr ibn al- Arabi's three questions?
In his book on al-Ghazali, Frank Griffel has the following discussion that includes the three questions, but not their answers:
Another Ghazalian text connected to Abu Bakr ibn al- Arabi also deals ...
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