Semantics of logic

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771Analytic philosophy / Philosophy of language / Ontology / Semantics / Theories of truth / Proposition / Truth / Interpretation / Function / Logic / Philosophy / Philosophical logic

Fundamental and derivative truths J.R.G.Williams (May 1, 2009) Abstract This paper investigates the claim that some truths are fundamentally or really true—

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Source URL: www.personal.leeds.ac.uk

Language: English - Date: 2009-05-01 09:15:40
772Natural kind / Ontology / Science / Philosophy / Epistemology / Semantics / Philosophy of science / Logic

Natural kinds in evolution and systematics: from metaphysics to epistemology Ingo Brigandt Department of Philosophy University of Alberta[removed]Humanities Centre

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Source URL: www.bristol.ac.uk

Language: English - Date: 2007-09-30 17:34:04
773Epistemology / Logic / Natural kind / Ontology / Semantics / Scientific theory / Causality / Chemistry / Class / Science / Philosophy of science / Knowledge

[removed] Do natural kinds need to be discrete? Lots of kinds are discrete: Chemical elements, Fundamental particles Some kinds aren’t discrete – alloys, diseases. Many thinkers have claimed that na

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Language: English - Date: 2007-10-08 04:54:16
774Philosophy of language / Philosophical logic / Meaning / Names / Semantics / Descriptivist theory of names / Saul Kripke / Naming and Necessity / Rigid designator / Analytic philosophy / Philosophy / Logic

The Commonalities between Proper Names and Natural Kind Terms: a Fregean Perspective How can we explain the commonalities Kripke brings out in the third lecture of Naming and Necessity (NN) between proper names and those

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Language: English - Date: 2007-10-08 05:47:05
775Science / Philosophy / Anti-psychiatry / Indeterminacy / Memetics / Semantics / Modal logic / Determinism / Analytic philosophy / Philosophy of language

A theory of metaphysical indeterminacy EJ Barnes and JRG Williams (March 7, 2009) Contents I

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Language: English - Date: 2009-03-07 18:13:42
776Epistemology / Semantics / Philosophy of language / Critical thinking / Fuzzy logic / Vagueness / Sorites paradox / Indeterminacy / Timothy Williamson / Knowledge / Science / Logic

IS VAGUENESS SUI GENERIS?1 David Barnett University of Colorado at Boulder On the dominant view of vagueness, if it is vague whether Harry is bald, then it is unsettled, not merely epistemically, but metaphysically, whet

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Source URL: spot.colorado.edu

Language: English - Date: 2008-05-07 15:05:13
777Semantics / Philosophy of language / Philosophy of life / Ontology / Philosophical logic / Rigid designator / Essentialism / Natural kind / Species / Logic / Science / Philosophy

ESSENCES OF NATURAL KINDS: DISCOVERED OR STIPULATED? Remarks on Joseph LaPorte’s Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change Alexander Bird

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Language: English - Date: 2007-09-27 10:37:52
778Predicate logic / Model theory / Logical syntax / Formal languages / First-order logic / Interpretation / Stable model semantics / Function / Well-formed formula / Logic / Mathematical logic / Mathematics

Safe Formulas in the General Theory of Stable Models (Preliminary Report) Joohyung Lee1 , Vladimir Lifschitz2 , and Ravi Palla1 1 2

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Source URL: www.cs.utexas.edu

Language: English - Date: 2008-09-10 19:37:33
779Philosophical logic / Model theory / Philosophy of language / Semantics / Barcan formula / Kripke semantics / Interpretation / Possible world / S5 / Logic / Mathematical logic / Modal logic

Properties, Individuals, and Contingency

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Source URL: www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Language: English - Date: 2009-07-03 04:45:28
780Philosophy of language / Philosophical logic / Names / Meaning / Semantics / Naming and Necessity / Saul Kripke / Rigid designator / Causal theory of reference / Analytic philosophy / Philosophy / Logic

The Semantics of Natural Kind Terms : How to Make Kripke’s Theory Work Eileen Walker, University of Reading: [removed]. Abstract This paper clarifies and defends the Kripkean view of na tural kind terms,

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Language: English - Date: 2007-10-09 13:35:07
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