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    The part‐whole and element‐system relations are usually not given a temporal interpretation. Taking a thesis of Father Bochenski as a starting point , the author first gives an adequate temporal interpretation of this thesis. Then, he shows that a divergence arises, in non‐static systems, between the system itself and the mereological sum corresponding to it at a certain instant. Therefore, any reductionism has to confront the generally neglected problem of this divergence. Résumé Les relations …Read more
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    Psychologie et épistémologie de la croyance selon Hume
    Dialectica 47 (2‐3): 255-267. 1993.
    RésuméDans son Traité, Hume a voulu, en un premier temps, dégager une conception purement psychologique et naturaliste de la croyance, et ainsi en exclure l'éaluation par une épistémologie normative. Dans un second temps toutefois, il réintroduisit une dimension épistémologique originale, s'écartant par là de son programme psychologique initial
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    L'idée d'une doctrine cohérentiste de la justification épistémique
    Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 129 (2): 127-139. 1997.
    In the philosophical tradition marked by Descartes and empiricism, the idea of epistemic justification was most often seen in terms of construction on foundations that would be as many immediately justified starting points. The article exposes a completely different approach to the question, due to the philosopher Keith Lehrer. In this approach the epistemic justification derives from a coherence relationship between beliefs that are never immediately justified starting points. What is then deci…Read more