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38Basic questions on truthKluwer Academic Publishers, c. 2000.There are basic questions concerning truth that have been perennial throughout the history of philosophy from the Ancient Greeks onwards: Is 'true' a ...
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Bochenski: Attempts to apply logic to problems of religionPhilosophia Scientiae 3 (4): 175-198. 1998.
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35Brentano’s Criticism of the Correspondence Theory of Truth and the Principle “Ens et verum convertuntur”Grazer Philosophische Studien 5 (1): 183-195. 1978.This paper investigates Brentano's criticism of the correspondence theory of truth within the context of a discussion of his ontological assumptions. Brentano's interpretation of the formula Veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus and of the principle ens et verum convertuntur is shown to fit into the history of these principles and into modern interpretations like that of Tarski
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18Basis Logic for Application in Physics and Its Intuitionistic AlternativeFoundations of Physics 40 (9-10): 1578-1596. 2010.This article proposes a basic logic for application in physics dispensing with the Principle of Excluded Middle. It is based on the article “Matrix Based Logics for Application in Physics (RMQ) which appeared 2009. In his article with Stachow on the Principle of Excluded Middle in Quantum Logic (QL), Peter Mittelstaedt showed that for some suitable QLs, including their own, the Principle of Excluded Middle can be added without any harm for QL; where ‘without any harm for QL’ means that the basic…Read more
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5BibliographyIn Nature's Teleological Order and God's Providence: Are They Compatible with Chance, Free Will, and Evil?, De Gruyter. pp. 273-282. 2014.
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10Are the Laws of Nature Time Reversal Symmetric?: The Arrow of Time, or Better: The Arrow of Directional ProcessesIn Friedrich Stadler & Michael Stöltzner (eds.), Time and History: Proceedings of the 28. International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg Am Wechsel, Austria 2005, De Gruyter. pp. 289-300. 2006.
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513. A Theory of Knowledge, Belief and AssumptionIn Knowledge and Scientific and Religious Belief, De Gruyter. pp. 197-214. 2018.
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14A System of Rational Belief, Knowledge and AssumptionGrazer Philosophische Studien 12 (1): 143-165. 1981.The first part of the papaer contains desiderata for a realistic epistemic system as opposed to idealistic ones. One of the main characteristics of idealistic epistemic systems is their deductive infallibility or deductive omniscience. The system presented avoids deductive infallibility though having a strong concept of knowledge. The second part contains the theorems of the system. The system is detailed in so far as it distinguishes between two concepts of belief and one of assumption and inte…Read more
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A simple relevance-criterion for natural language and its semanticsIn G. Dorn & P. Weingarten (eds.), Foundations of Logic and Linguistics. Problems and Solutions, Plenum. pp. 563--575. 1985.
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24A System of Rational Belief, Knowledge and AssumptionGrazer Philosophische Studien 12 (1): 143-165. 1981.The first part of the papaer contains desiderata for a realistic epistemic system as opposed to idealistic ones. One of the main characteristics of idealistic epistemic systems is their deductive infallibility or deductive omniscience. The system presented avoids deductive infallibility though having a strong concept of knowledge. The second part contains the theorems of the system. The system is detailed in so far as it distinguishes between two concepts of belief and one of assumption and inte…Read more
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2Are statistical laws genuine laws? A concern of Poincaré and BoltzmannPhilosophia Scientiae 3 (2): 215-236. 1998.
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25A Note on Jaakko Hintikka's "Knowledge and Belief"Grazer Philosophische Studien 49 (1): 135-147. 1994.Jaakko Hintikka's concept of belief (aBp) as presented in his Knowledge and Belief is such that in his epistemic logic aKp —> aBp is a thesis. This concept (B-belief) is one important kind of belief and can be contrasted with a different concept of belief (G-belief, denoted by 'aOp') not discussed in Hintikka's book. It is to some extent opposite to the one above in the sense that it is knowledge-exclusive, whereas Hintikka's is knowledge-inclusive. This is shown by the thesis aKp —> —laGp or aG…Read more
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42A Note on Jaakko Hintikka's "Knowledge and Belief"Grazer Philosophische Studien 49 (1): 135-147. 1994.Jaakko Hintikka's concept of belief (aBp) as presented in his Knowledge and Belief is such that in his epistemic logic aKp —> aBp is a thesis. This concept (B-belief) is one important kind of belief and can be contrasted with a different concept of belief (G-belief, denoted by 'aOp') not discussed in Hintikka's book. It is to some extent opposite to the one above in the sense that it is knowledge-exclusive, whereas Hintikka's is knowledge-inclusive. This is shown by the thesis aKp —> —laGp or aG…Read more
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11Analogy Among SystemsDialectica 33 (3‐4): 355-378. 1979.SummaryAfter giving examples for different relations of analogy among different objects the gist of analogy relations are interpreted as homomorphism and isomorphism . The main purpose of the paper is to give a number of precise definitions for different kinds of analogy . In chapter 7 definitions are proposed for analogy relations between theories and common features of the relations T1 is anologous to T2 and T1 is interpretable in T2 are discussed. Chapter 8 compares analogy and transformation…Read more
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7Alternative Logics. Do Sciences Need Them?Springer Verlag. 2004.Initially proposed as rivals of classical logic, alternative logics have become increasingly important in sciences such as quantum physics, computer science, and artificial intelligence. The contributions collected in this volume address and explore the question whether the usage of logic in the sciences, especially in modern physics, requires a deviation from classical mathematical logic. The articles in the first part of the book set the scene by describing the context and the dilemma when app…Read more
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60Antinomies and paradoxes and their solutionsStudies in East European Thought 39 (3-4): 313-331. 1990.
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55An Alternative Propositional Calculus for Application to Empirical SciencesStudia Logica 95 (1-2). 2010.The purpose of the paper is to show that by cleaning Classical Logic (CL) from redundancies (irrelevances) and uninformative complexities in the consequence class and from too strong assumptions (of CL) one can avoid most of the paradoxes coming up when CL is applied to empirical sciences including physics. This kind of cleaning of CL has been done successfully by distinguishing two types of theorems of CL by two criteria. One criterion (RC) forbids such theorems in which parts of the consequent…Read more
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192Zwart and Franssen’s impossibility theorem reveals a conflict between the possible-world-based content-definition and the possible-world-based likeness-definition of verisimilitude. In Sect. 2 we show that the possible-world-based content-definition violates four basic intuitions of Popper’s consequence-based content-account to verisimilitude, and therefore cannot be said to be in the spirit of Popper’s account, although this is the opinion of some prominent authors. In Sect. 3 we argue that in …Read more
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30Zwart and Franssen’s impossibility theorem holds for possible-world-accounts but not for consequence-accounts to verisimilitudeSynthese 172 (3): 415-436. 2010.Zwart and Franssen’s impossibility theorem reveals a conflict between the possible-world-based content-definition and the possible-world-based likeness-definition of verisimilitude. In Sect. 2 we show that the possible-world-based content-definition violates four basic intuitions of Popper’s consequence-based content-account to verisimilitude, and therefore cannot be said to be in the spirit of Popper’s account, although this is the opinion of some prominent authors. In Sect. 3 we argue that in …Read more
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9Zawiera materiały konferencji zorganizowanej przez Instituts Görresgesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Forschung (31.8-5.9.1989).