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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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The different Egos in Husserl's Cartesian Meditations
So I thought I had understood the different 'Egos', mainly the distinction between the psychological and transcendental Ego, in the text. But throughout meditation 2 it becomes a bit confusing to me, ...
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Does the usage of the words "gnosis" and "episteme" evidentiate a change over time in Ancient Greek philosophy?
"Episteme" is the word of choice in Plato, generally (although there are a few instances of "Gnosis" here and there)
By contrast, "Gnosis" is far more frequent among ...
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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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Philosophically-inclined controlled/modified natural languages like Newspeak and E-Prime?
Good morning! I hope everyone is having a great holiday.
There is a field of research, development and, should I say, sort of "conlanging" called Controlled Natural Languages (CNLs). In ...
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How does Fichte account for the existence of inter-subjective reality?
I have read many entries on Fichte online. There is never any reference to the question of the origin of inter-subjective reality. How do we apparently see the same world?
There does not seem to be ...
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Where does Carnap discuss "entelechy" (rather) extensively?
I remember reading a paper or text by Carnap where he gave a rather extensive treatment of the theory of a biologist (his contemporary, if I remember correctly) who posited an "entelechy" as ...
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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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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 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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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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How is W. James' "pure experience" any better than the "diaphaneity" he says that he rejects?
This is not actually a tangent: I remembered the question (which I'd thought of posting) while critiquing Gilbert Ryle's anti-dualism, which goes back to my issues with the notion of category mistakes,...
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Position on postmodern philosophy in modern society
Let's say, there's some author. Baudrillard or Deleuze or whatever. A lot of people read them. Some of them more or less can understand what they write about.
And there's a university system that ...
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