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85Sorites paradoxes and the transition questionPhilosophical Papers 21 (3): 177-190. 1992.This discusses the kind of paradox that has since become known as "the forced march sorites", here called "the transition question". The question is whether this is really a new kind of paradox, or the familiar sorites in unfamiliar garb. The author argues that resources adequate to deal with ordinary sorites are sufficient to deal with the transition question, and tentatively proposes an affirmative answer.
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16III*—Tolerating VaguenessProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 89 (1): 33-48. 1989.R. M. Sainsbury; III*—Tolerating Vagueness, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 89, Issue 1, 1 June 1989, Pages 33–48, https://doi.org/10.1093/arist.
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Realism vs Nominalism about theDispositional-Non-Dispositional DistinctionIn Michele Marsonet (ed.), The Problem of Realism, Ashgate. pp. 160. 2002.
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505A very large fly in the ointment: Davidsonian truth theory contextualizedIn Richard Schantz (ed.), Prospects for Meaning, Walter De Gruyter. 2012.one hand, it raises fundamental doubts about the Davidsonian project, which seems to involve isolating specifically semantic knowledge from any other knowledge or skill in a way reflected by the ideal of homophony. Indexicality forces a departure from this ideal, and so from the aspiration of deriving the truth conditions of an arbitrary utterance on the basis simply of axioms which could hope to represent purely semantic knowledge. In defence of Davidson, I argue that once his original idea for…Read more
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34Hume's idea of necessary connection/A idéia de conexão necessária em HumeManuscrito 30 (2): 341-355. 2007.Hume seems to tell us that our ideas are copies of our corresponding impres-sions, that we have an idea of necessary connection, but that we have no corresponding impression, since nothing can be known to be really necessarily connected. The paper considers two ways of reinterpreting the doctrine of the origins of ideas so as to avoid the apparent inconsistency. If we see the doctrine as concerned primarily with establishing conditions under which we possess an idea, there is no need for an idea…Read more
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