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40The Taming of the TruePhilosophical Review 109 (2): 290. 2000.The Taming of the True continues the project Neil Tennant began in Anti-realism and Logic of investigating and defending anti-realism. Tennant’s earlier book anticipated a second volume, in which issues related to empirical discourse would be addressed in greater detail. The Taming of the True provides this sequel. It also attempts a ground-clearing project, by addressing challenges to some of the presuppositions and implications of Tennant’s anti-realist position. Finally, it takes an opportuni…Read more
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5Entailment and ProofsProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 79. 1979.N. Tennant; XI*—Entailment and Proofs, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 79, Issue 1, 1 June 1979, Pages 167–190, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristote.
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127Mind, Mathematics and the I gnorabimusstreitBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (4). 2007.1Certain developments in recent philosophy of mind that contemporary philosophers would regard as both novel and important were fully anticipated by writers in (or reacting to) the tradition of Nat...
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12AutologicEdinburgh University Press. 1992.Shows how to program on a computer (in Prolog) the effective skills taught in introductory and intermediate logic courses. The topics include the relevance of relevance, representing formulae and proofs, avoiding loops and blind alleys, and other aspects. Of interest to computational logicians, proof-theorists, cognitive scientists, and workers in artificial intelligence. Distributed by Columbia U. Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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59Recursive Semantics For Knowledge and BeliefThe Monist 60 (3): 419-430. 1977.1. This paper is an informal exposition of a model-theoretic semantics for knowledge and belief set out in full detail else where. Considerations of space and simplicity prevent any recapitulation of tracts of formal definitions. My aim is simply to inform the reader of the alleged existence of one “new direction” in semantics, and to direct him to the original source for its detailed development. I shall explain certain self-imposed limitations on the scope and adequacy conditions of this treat…Read more
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70Deflationism and the Godel Phenomena: Reply to CieslinskiMind 119 (474): 437-450. 2010.I clarify how the requirement of conservative extension features in the thinking of various deflationists, and how this relates to another litmus claim, that the truth-predicate stands for a real, substantial property. I discuss how the deflationist can accommodate the result, to which Cieslinski draws attention, that non-conservativeness attends even the generalization that all logical theorems in the language of arithmetic are true. Finally I provide a four-fold categorization of various forms…Read more
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