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how to Hellman's structuralism preserve original mathematical practice for proof
I am reading Hellman’s Mathematics Without Numbers. I’ve read exactly up to page 26, and my understanding is roughly this: Hellman does not understand mathematical sentences as sentences about certain ...
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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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Is there a counterpart semantics available for the multiverse standpoint in set theory?
I've been working on something that might be usefully denoted "the Dual Continuum Hypothesis," which is based on the following from Asaf Karagila on the Math Stack Exchange:
We know that ...
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How can supererogation be defined using quantifiers like "enough"/"too much"?
This is based partly on my previous question under my previous membership in this SE, regarding "Goldilocks" or "Nicomachean" quantifiers, and due to obscure life events, it seems ...
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What does Hegel mean by thought at the beginning of his Logic? Mere thinking or thought itself?
I presume that Logic in Hegel's system seeks an immanent and presupposition-free development of the basic categories of being and thought. Logic is therefore a theory of categories and a doctrine of ...
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The Problem of Old Evidence and Extensive-Form Games
In an extensive-form game, the main solution technique for the rational player is backward induction over the complete game tree. This may produce for the player a deterministically-knowable payoff, ...
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Epistemic accounts of modal notions
I recall once reading an off-hand comment (I believe in SEP) that although there are epistemic accounts of modality, modality is generally considered a matter of metaphysics. What I assumed this meant ...
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Are translations of Kant problematic because they lose conceptual precision?
How good are the translations of Kant in various languages? What are the experiences of those who have read Kant in languages other than German, but are native German speakers and have studied Kant ...
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Are there any canonical English translations of original analytic EM Hindu authors?
I'm centrally looking for translations of analytic [ Nyaya / Vaiśeṣika ] texts that contain analysis of motion, as described here. I've found the English version of the Prasasastapada that's on the ...
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"Is" color extension, and vice versa?
In his mereology, Husserl defines moments as inseparable parts and cites examples such as the relationship between intensity and quality or the relationship between color and extension: I never see a ...
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Problems with Frege's theory regarding anaphorisms and indexicals
While reading Propositoinal Attitude Reports, I came across a part I don't understand.
Consider the following.
(8) Jack and Jill went up the hill and Jack believes that she went up first.
There is a ...
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Is the difference between the quantum and the above-quantum levels of reality equivalent to the difference between nonadjunctive and adjunctive ∧?
Regarding the concept of non-adjunction w.r.t. many and various details, I would like to refer to sec. 4.4.1 of this very extensive text on arithmetic and non-classical logic. Generally, non-...
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Are Quine atoms counterexamples to the irreflexivity of grounding?
It seems commonplace enough in the literature on grounding to find the claim that x grounds {x}. It is also a commonplace that grounding is irreflexive. But what about a Quine atom, then? For this is ...
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Extensional context:"S believes in x"
I know that there is some research in philosophy on the difference between (A) "S believes that p" and (B) "S believes in x" (e.g. H. H. Price and Gendler Szabó). But I cannot find ...
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How would moral responsibility be allocated in existence nihilism/via a "feature-placing language"?
Unfortunately, a few days ago, I asked what should have been a clear and simple question in a desperately labyrinth-like, nonlinear manner. The question should have been, "How is moral ...
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