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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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Is Aquinas's "act is the principle of action" a tautology?
In Summa Contra Gentiles II.6.7, Aquinas suddenly claims that "act is the principle of action" (actus autem actionis principium est).
Is this phrase supposed to be a definition of act? Or a ...
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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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Natural language as a metalanguage for formal logics?
I have recently been researching the relation between formal and natural languages as well as Tarskian hierarchies and so would like to present an idea has been on my mind. I am not aware if anything ...
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Confusion about Allison's argument regarding Kant's claim of the syntheticity of an expression of the synthetic principle
In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant once expressed his synthetic principle in such a manner:
"The synthetic proposition, that every different empirical consciousness must be combined into a ...
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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.
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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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Kierkegaard and identity?
Kierkegaard defines the self as the "relation of relation to oneself in relation" to which this means a relation of ideas is a dialectic of individual opposites. Infinity and finitude (this ...
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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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