frege on identity statements
... issues that animated his thinking are brought forth in his early work, and much of his subsequent thought can be seen as attempting to find the most cogent and coherent packaging to express these ideas.1 One place where this can be seen most graphically is in Frege’s known remarks on identity statem ...
... issues that animated his thinking are brought forth in his early work, and much of his subsequent thought can be seen as attempting to find the most cogent and coherent packaging to express these ideas.1 One place where this can be seen most graphically is in Frege’s known remarks on identity statem ...
Essence and Modality The Quintessence of Husserl`s Theory Kevin
... Both Husserl and Frege argue, against formalist theories, that sense or meaning understood as constituted by rules or prescriptions is grounded in sense or meaning which is not so constituted. Thus Husserl says that differently shaped and coloured things become chess-figures “durch die Spielregeln, ...
... Both Husserl and Frege argue, against formalist theories, that sense or meaning understood as constituted by rules or prescriptions is grounded in sense or meaning which is not so constituted. Thus Husserl says that differently shaped and coloured things become chess-figures “durch die Spielregeln, ...
Why did Hume call his Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals
... The answer why Hume regarded his Enquiry to be the best of his works, stated dogmatically, goes like this: Of all his philosophical works, and arguably of all his writings, the Enquiry shows the greatest degree of systematic coherence, thus it is the work approaching most closely Hume’s philosophic ...
... The answer why Hume regarded his Enquiry to be the best of his works, stated dogmatically, goes like this: Of all his philosophical works, and arguably of all his writings, the Enquiry shows the greatest degree of systematic coherence, thus it is the work approaching most closely Hume’s philosophic ...
Epistemological Vs - Birkbeck, University of London
... But why all this creative reconstruction, all this make believe? The stimulation of his sensory receptors is all the evidence anybody has had to go on, ultimately, in arriving at his picture of the world. Why not just see how this construction really proceeds? Why not settle for psychology! (Quine ( ...
... But why all this creative reconstruction, all this make believe? The stimulation of his sensory receptors is all the evidence anybody has had to go on, ultimately, in arriving at his picture of the world. Why not just see how this construction really proceeds? Why not settle for psychology! (Quine ( ...
drnous2
... Given some interpretations of the necessity operator, Dummett clearly intends this. A verificationist meaning theorist does not think that verificationism is a parochial truth about us, our language, and the world. Rather, it is supposed to reflect some deep truth about the nature of language, thoug ...
... Given some interpretations of the necessity operator, Dummett clearly intends this. A verificationist meaning theorist does not think that verificationism is a parochial truth about us, our language, and the world. Rather, it is supposed to reflect some deep truth about the nature of language, thoug ...
The Logic of Logical Revision
... Given some interpretations of the necessity operator, Dummett clearly intends this. For a verificationist meaning theorist, verificationism is supposed to reflect a deep truth about the nature of language, thought, and any possible world. Dummett holds that it is necessary that all truths are knowab ...
... Given some interpretations of the necessity operator, Dummett clearly intends this. For a verificationist meaning theorist, verificationism is supposed to reflect a deep truth about the nature of language, thought, and any possible world. Dummett holds that it is necessary that all truths are knowab ...
The “Silence” of Wittgenstein and Kraus
... That silence is not just an emptiness, but rather something to be used in the context of showing something that cannot be said, may account for Wittgenstein’s reported admiration of George Fox, the seventeenth-century charismatic and mystical genius who gathered together the “peculiar” people called ...
... That silence is not just an emptiness, but rather something to be used in the context of showing something that cannot be said, may account for Wittgenstein’s reported admiration of George Fox, the seventeenth-century charismatic and mystical genius who gathered together the “peculiar” people called ...
Popper and Xenophanes - ORCA
... experienced instances, as a deep-seated illusion. Relatedly, he also rejected verificationism, both as a theory of meaning and (more importantly) as either a potential theory of knowledge or a criterion of demarcation between science and non-science. For the true path of Enlightenment consisted in n ...
... experienced instances, as a deep-seated illusion. Relatedly, he also rejected verificationism, both as a theory of meaning and (more importantly) as either a potential theory of knowledge or a criterion of demarcation between science and non-science. For the true path of Enlightenment consisted in n ...
The One Fallacy Theory
... nevertheless appears valid or good in whatever way is in question. So far I agree. But what is meant by "appears valid" or "appears good"? The psychological criterion takes it that an argument appears valid or good just in case ordinary people are likely to be taken in by the argument and to think i ...
... nevertheless appears valid or good in whatever way is in question. So far I agree. But what is meant by "appears valid" or "appears good"? The psychological criterion takes it that an argument appears valid or good just in case ordinary people are likely to be taken in by the argument and to think i ...
- Free Documents
... the goal of minimizing loss and it is clear that the relationship between logic and decisionmaking is rather subtle. as well as those in other disciplines such as computing. concerned with asking when statements are consistent and when they are inconsistent. Important goals of logic include characte ...
... the goal of minimizing loss and it is clear that the relationship between logic and decisionmaking is rather subtle. as well as those in other disciplines such as computing. concerned with asking when statements are consistent and when they are inconsistent. Important goals of logic include characte ...
quine`s argument from despair
... problematic (1946, 57-77). Still, their problems were worse on the doctrinal side. For Quine, it was Hume who showed that it is impossible to establish a deductive relation between theory and evidence even if both are couched in the same sensory language; neither general statements nor singular stat ...
... problematic (1946, 57-77). Still, their problems were worse on the doctrinal side. For Quine, it was Hume who showed that it is impossible to establish a deductive relation between theory and evidence even if both are couched in the same sensory language; neither general statements nor singular stat ...
What Can We Know A Priori?1 C.S.I. Jenkins Draft only. Please
... Moreover, there are various other motivations for believing in the a priori which Devitt does not address. I shall not attempt an exhaustive list of these here; many depend on the details of particular epistemological views that Devitt presumably rejects. For example, Field’s nonfactualism about epi ...
... Moreover, there are various other motivations for believing in the a priori which Devitt does not address. I shall not attempt an exhaustive list of these here; many depend on the details of particular epistemological views that Devitt presumably rejects. For example, Field’s nonfactualism about epi ...
Wittgenstein`s Tractatus Logico
... negative facts: suppose that we have a list of atomic facts f1 . . . fn . Now consider some true sentence ‘not-S.’ Is the truth of ‘not-S’ determined by f1 . . . fn ? It seems not. For f1 . . . fn are atomic facts, and there is nothing to prevent a series of atomic facts from being consistent both w ...
... negative facts: suppose that we have a list of atomic facts f1 . . . fn . Now consider some true sentence ‘not-S.’ Is the truth of ‘not-S’ determined by f1 . . . fn ? It seems not. For f1 . . . fn are atomic facts, and there is nothing to prevent a series of atomic facts from being consistent both w ...
brandomsingularterms..
... part of an explanation of a truth, the theory of which is then part of an explanation of what people do with language such as issue speech acts and infer. Robert Brandom (1994) seeks to reverse this (following Michael Dummett (1993)) by reversing the usual order of explanation of correct inference. ...
... part of an explanation of a truth, the theory of which is then part of an explanation of what people do with language such as issue speech acts and infer. Robert Brandom (1994) seeks to reverse this (following Michael Dummett (1993)) by reversing the usual order of explanation of correct inference. ...
analysis of knowledge, assertion, verification
... that notion requires. Once the rational reconstruction has been fixed as a criterion of material adequacy, one can apply a particular theory (with its philosophical and empirical assumptions) which saves the phenomena explicated in the rational reconstruction. Of course, there can exists cases in wh ...
... that notion requires. Once the rational reconstruction has been fixed as a criterion of material adequacy, one can apply a particular theory (with its philosophical and empirical assumptions) which saves the phenomena explicated in the rational reconstruction. Of course, there can exists cases in wh ...
Wittgenstein`s Ph.D Viva
... ‘How are you Moore, nice of you to come all this way’, but ‘Logical so-called propositions shew the logical properties of language and therefore of the Universe, but say nothing’.17 That was a strange thing to be told as soon as I stepped off the boat. Wittgenstein: Why? It’s true. The fundamental t ...
... ‘How are you Moore, nice of you to come all this way’, but ‘Logical so-called propositions shew the logical properties of language and therefore of the Universe, but say nothing’.17 That was a strange thing to be told as soon as I stepped off the boat. Wittgenstein: Why? It’s true. The fundamental t ...
Normative Ethics, Normative Epistemology, and Quine`s Holism
... our moral standards themselves. Science, thanks to its links with observation, retains some title to a correspondence theory of truth; but a coherence theory is evidently the lot of ethics\".} Quine has also maintained that when empiricism reached its fifth and most recent milestone it assimilated e ...
... our moral standards themselves. Science, thanks to its links with observation, retains some title to a correspondence theory of truth; but a coherence theory is evidently the lot of ethics\".} Quine has also maintained that when empiricism reached its fifth and most recent milestone it assimilated e ...
Jani Hakkarainen. Hume`s Scepticism and Realism: His Two
... when it comes to explaining why we think this (in 1.4 of the Treatise) Hume goes through great pains to demonstrate that neither the senses nor reason can supply us with our pre-philosophical belief which is, rather, the result of natural instinct (which combines with the imagination to resolve case ...
... when it comes to explaining why we think this (in 1.4 of the Treatise) Hume goes through great pains to demonstrate that neither the senses nor reason can supply us with our pre-philosophical belief which is, rather, the result of natural instinct (which combines with the imagination to resolve case ...
Aspects of Visual Epistemology: On the “Logic” of the Iconic Dieter
... of relationships is revealed – together with their discursive connections – since thinking from now on means speaking, while knowledge manifests itself in propositions, which refer to the world and whose references are realized in true/ false distinctions. Otherwise, like transposed modes of speech, ...
... of relationships is revealed – together with their discursive connections – since thinking from now on means speaking, while knowledge manifests itself in propositions, which refer to the world and whose references are realized in true/ false distinctions. Otherwise, like transposed modes of speech, ...
06_chapter 2
... deduction. He tried to find out some better kind of induction than what is called induction by simple enumeration. "Induction which proceeds by merely simple enumeration", says Bacon, is a childish affair, and being without any certain principle of inference it may be overthrown by a contradictory i ...
... deduction. He tried to find out some better kind of induction than what is called induction by simple enumeration. "Induction which proceeds by merely simple enumeration", says Bacon, is a childish affair, and being without any certain principle of inference it may be overthrown by a contradictory i ...
What if all truth is context-dependent?
... • the background factors are capable of being recognised later on; • the world is regular enough for such models to be at all learnable; • the world is regular enough for such learnt models to be at all useful when applied in situations where the context can be recognised. While this transference o ...
... • the background factors are capable of being recognised later on; • the world is regular enough for such models to be at all learnable; • the world is regular enough for such learnt models to be at all useful when applied in situations where the context can be recognised. While this transference o ...
Quine on "Alternative Logics"
... with its translations. Thus, semantic criteria for determining the meaning of a linguistic expression are based solely on (communitywide) dispositions to respond verbally in a uniform manner when prompted by the same nonverbal stimulations. Semantic criteria, then, are merely causal regularities wit ...
... with its translations. Thus, semantic criteria for determining the meaning of a linguistic expression are based solely on (communitywide) dispositions to respond verbally in a uniform manner when prompted by the same nonverbal stimulations. Semantic criteria, then, are merely causal regularities wit ...
Behold the Non-Rabbit: Kant, Quine, Laruelle
... This paper is about inuiviuuation, theory, and experience, and will examine the way in which these concepts are intertwined in the work of three very different philosophers. More precisely, I will be fore grounding the theme of individuation but only in order to use it as a lens through which to foc ...
... This paper is about inuiviuuation, theory, and experience, and will examine the way in which these concepts are intertwined in the work of three very different philosophers. More precisely, I will be fore grounding the theme of individuation but only in order to use it as a lens through which to foc ...
philbasisdialethism
... have the same meaning, then (independent of the fact that they are verification and falsification transcendent) it is completely unclear how we could possibly communicate information with them. Thus, pending an answer to this challenge, the anti-realist’s commitment to the Recognition Thesis and Ver ...
... have the same meaning, then (independent of the fact that they are verification and falsification transcendent) it is completely unclear how we could possibly communicate information with them. Thus, pending an answer to this challenge, the anti-realist’s commitment to the Recognition Thesis and Ver ...
EXPERIENCE AND PERCEPTUAL BELIEF
... prompt their acceptance, and may always turn out to be mistaken. There is the everpresent sceptical possibility of illusion or hallucination. The basic statements contain universal terms and are ‘theory-laden’, so that future experience may not fit with them. An earlier response to ‘scepticism regar ...
... prompt their acceptance, and may always turn out to be mistaken. There is the everpresent sceptical possibility of illusion or hallucination. The basic statements contain universal terms and are ‘theory-laden’, so that future experience may not fit with them. An earlier response to ‘scepticism regar ...