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36Particulars, Individual Qualities, and UniversalsIn Kevin Mulligan (ed.), Language, Truth and Ontology, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 37--47. 1991.
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7TruthIn Michael Devitt & Richard Hanley (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Plato's Theory Convention T Tarski's Theory of Truth The Liar Paradox Disquotation and Correspondence.
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171A puzzle about de rebus beliefsAnalysis 60 (4). 2000.George Boolos (1984, 1985) has extensively investigated plural quantifi- cation, as found in such locutions as the Geach-Kaplan sentence There are critics who admire only one another, and he found that their logic cannot be adequately formalized within the first-order predicate calculus. If we try to formalize the sentence by a paraphrase using individual variables that range over critics, or over sets or collections or fusions of critics, we misrepresent its logical structure. To represent plural…Read more
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The categoricity of logicIn Colin R. Caret & Ole T. Hjortland (eds.), Foundations of Logical Consequence, Oxford University Press. 2015.
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33If P, then Q: Conditionals and the Foundations of ReasoningPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1): 239-242. 1992.
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110An Epistemic Principle Which Solves Newcomb's ParadoxGrazer Philosophische Studien 40 (1): 197-217. 1991.If it is certain that performing an observation to determine whether P is true will in no way influence whether P is tme, then the proposition that the observation is performed ought to be probabilistically independent of P. Applying the notion of "observation" liberally, so that a wide variety of actions are treated as observations, this proposed new principle of belief revision yields the result that simple utihty maximization gives the correct solution to the Fisher smoking paradox and the tw…Read more
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21An Epistemic Principle Which Solves Newcomb's ParadoxGrazer Philosophische Studien 40 (1): 197-217. 1991.If it is certain that performing an observation to determine whether P is true will in no way influence whether P is tme, then the proposition that the observation is performed ought to be probabilistically independent of P. Applying the notion of "observation" liberally, so that a wide variety of actions are treated as observations, this proposed new principle of belief revision yields the result that simple utihty maximization gives the correct solution to the Fisher smoking paradox and the tw…Read more
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Ramsey's DialetheismIn Graham Priest, Jc Beall & Bradley P. Armour-Garb (eds.), The law of non-contradiction : new philosophical essays, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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53Whittle’s assault on Cantor’s paradiseOxford Studies in Metaphysics 9. 2015.This chapter presents a response to Chapter 1. The arguments put forward in that chapter attempted to drive us from the paradise created by Cantor’s theory of infinite number. The principal complaint is that Cantor’s proof that the subsets of a set are more numerous than its elements fails to yield an adequate diagnosis of Russell’s paradox. This chapter argues that Cantor’s proof was never meant to be a diagnosis of Russell’s paradox. Further, it argues that Cantor’s theory is fine as it is.
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69The Revision Theory of Truth (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (3): 727-730. 1996.
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48Timothy Williamson, Vagueness: London and New York: 1994 (review)Linguistics and Philosophy 21 (2): 221-235. 1998.
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26John Etchemendy. The concept of logical consequence. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1990, vii + 174 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 57 (1): 254-255. 1992.
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26James Van Aken. Axioms for the set-theoretic hierarchy. The journal of symbolic logic, vol. 51 , pp. 992–1004. - Stephen Pollard. More axioms for the set-theoretic hierarchy. Logique et analyse, n.s. vol. 31 , pp. 85–88. - Michael D. Potter. Sets. An introduction. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York1990, xi + 241 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 58 (3): 1077-1078. 1993.
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38XIII*—Two Problems with Tarski's Theory of ConsequenceProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92 (1): 273-292. 1992.Vann McGee; XIII*—Two Problems with Tarski's Theory of Consequence, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 92, Issue 1, 1 June 1992, Pages 273–292, htt.
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Omnibus Review (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 56 (1): 329-332. 1991.Reviewed Works:S. N. Artemov, B. M. Schein, Arithmetically Complete Modal Theories.S. N. Artemov, E. Mendelson, On Modal Logics Axiomatizing Provability.S.N. Artemov, E. Mendelson, Nonarithmeticity of Truth Prdicate Logics of Provability.V. A. Vardanyan, E. Mendelson, Arithmetic Complexity of Predicate Logics of Provability and Their.S. N. Artemov, E. Mendelson, Numerically Correct Provability Logics.
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Truth and Necessity in Partially Interpreted LanguagesDissertation, University of California, Berkeley. 1985.Tarski showed how to give satisfactory theories of truth for a wide variety of languages, but he required that the theory of truth for a language be formulated in an essentially richer metalanguage. Since there is no human language essentially richer than a natural language and since we would like to develop consistent theories of truth for natural languages, we would like to learn how to formulate a theory of truth for a language within that very language. ;Toward this end, I consider a class o…Read more
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2University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 3–7, 2000Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 6 (3). 2000.
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45On the degrees of unsolvability of modal predicate logics of provabilityJournal of Symbolic Logic 59 (1): 253-261. 1994.
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98Timothy Williamson, vagueness: London and new York: 1994 (review)Linguistics and Philosophy 21 (2): 221-235. 1998.
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154Logical commitment and semantic indeterminacy: A reply to WilliamsonLinguistics and Philosophy 27 (1): 123-136. 2004.
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171Thought, thoughts, and deflationismPhilosophical Studies 173 (12): 3153-3168. 2016.Deflationists about truth embrace the positive thesis that the notion of truth is useful as a logical device, for such purposes as blanket endorsement, and the negative thesis that the notion doesn’t have any legitimate applications beyond its logical uses, so it cannot play a significant theoretical role in scientific inquiry or causal explanation. Focusing on Christopher Hill as exemplary deflationist, the present paper takes issue with the negative thesis, arguing that, without making use of …Read more
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