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4Evaluating Semantic Theories of Conditionals: Methodological ChallengesFilozofia 79 (2): 168-183. 2024.
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Why just (Necessary) Truths as Assumptions in Deductive Inferences?Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 20 75-97. 2013.
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" The New Riddle of Induction" and Testing of QualitiesFilozofia 66 (8): 746-754. 2011.The paper deals with the New Riddle of Induction set forth by N. Goodman in his Fact, Fiction, and Forecast. The problem is introduced through the definition of grue-predicate. The relation between the grue-hypothesis and empirical evidence is examined. Goodman’s underlying thesis about the neutrality of empirical evidence is undermined. The intelligibility of the idea that disjunctive properties such as Grue can be observed and seen is questioned. A solution of Goodman’s riddle is outlined by m…Read more
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121The demarcation problem of laws of natureOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 17 (4): 522-549. 2010.The paper focuses on the problem of identification of laws of nature and their demarcation from other kinds of regularities. The problem is approached from the viewpoint of several metaphysical, epistemological, logical and methodological criteria. Firstly, several dominant approaches to the problem are introduced. Secondly, the logical and semantic explicatory framework – Transparent Intensional Logic – is presented for the sake of clarification of logical forms of sentences that are supposed t…Read more
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Testability and the importance of observational and theoretical terms (2011, vol 18, p 3)Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 18 (4): 474-474. 2011.
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The Abductive Model of (Scientific) ExplanationOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 19 (1). 2012.
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Testability and Meaning of Observation Terms and Theoretical TermsOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 18 (3): 384-397. 2011.
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1On Definitions and DefiningFilozofia 65 (8): 719-737. 2010.The paper deals with some logical, semantic and methodological aspects of defining and definitions. First of all, basic features of the background semantic theory are specified. Next, three different kinds of definitions are distinguished: codifying definitions, objectual analytic definitions and meaning analytic definitions. It is shown that the relationships between the definiendum and the definiens in a given definition differ with respect to these different kinds of definition. Furthermore, …Read more
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Modern theory of explanation and causalityOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 16 (2): 272-277. 2009.
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19Hempelove kritériá explanácie V kontexte modelu historickej explanácieOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 14 (4): 498-517. 2007.The so-called „Covering Law Model“ of explanation proposed by C. Hempel and R. Oppenheim was claimed to have been applied as an explanatory model in natural sciences as well as in humanities. Several objections were raised against this explanatory model during the second half of 20th century. This article considers the proposed criteria of adequacy of scientific explanation and, in particular, the possibilities and limitations connected with the idea of its applicability in the process of logica…Read more
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3Pollockova koncepcia revidovateľného usudzovania a kritika argumentovFilozofia 75 (8): 628-643. 2020.
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207Explikácia: metóda a formaTeorie Vědy / Theory of Science 37 (3): 235-252. 2015.Explikácia patrí medzi kľúčové metódy analytickej filozofie. V tejto práci predstavujem návrh explicitného odlíšenia metódy explikácie od jej výsledku. V nadväznosti na prácu Rudolfa Carnapa sa snažím jeho explikačný projekt rozvinúť. Poukazujem na otvorené problémy Carnapovych kritérií adekvátnej explikácie; ukazujem, v čom sa explikácie od definícií líšia, aká je ich logická forma a ktoré explicitné kroky sú typické pre metódu explikácie. Napokon, približujem dôvody, pre ktoré je možné expliká…Read more
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50Explication, H-D Confirmation, and SimplicityErkenntnis 83 (5): 1085-1104. 2018.Explication usually plays the role of the method of language revision. The paper sticks to the Carnapian project of explication and develops some of the formal requirements imposed on the explicatum. However, it departs from Carnap’s view when it comes to how to construe the simplicity condition. It is suggested that in some cases the simplicity condition, which in the Carnapian project plays the derived role with respect to the other three conditions—the similarity, exactness, and fruitfulness …Read more
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J. Searle, Myseľ, Jazyk, SpoločnosťOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 14 (3): 411-417. 2007.
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J. Searle, Rečové AktyOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 15 (1): 125-133. 2008.
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M. Zouhar, Základy Logiky Pre Spoločenskovedné A Humanitné OdboryOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 16 (3): 414-422. 2009.
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E. Zeleňák: Moderné Teórie Vysvetlenia A PríčinnostiOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 16 (2): 272-277. 2009.
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Tomáš Marvan, Otázka významu. Cesty analytické filosofie jazykaOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 18 (1): 128-132. 2011.
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25Havraní paradox, logika a metódy testovaniaOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 18 (2): 213-225. 2011.The paper presents the logical milieu of the Paradox of ravens, identified by Hempel in his Studies in the Logic of Confirmation. It deals with Hempel’s interpretations of Nicod’s criterion of confirmation as well as with its inadmissible consequences. I, subsequently, suggest an epistemological and semantic specification of empirical properties, i.e., of their identity; then I formulate a criterion of the test of properties expressed by empirical hypothesis. Finally, I propose a procedural conc…Read more
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26Testovateľnosť a význam observačných a teoretických termínovOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 18 (3): 384-397. 2011.Carnap’s analysis of the language of science had presupposed too close a connection between the semantics and testability. The core problem of the logical empiricist tradition was to show how to provide the interpretation of theoretical terms and hence the explanation of their application to observable entities by means of observation terms. It is argued that the utilization of a much more expressive semantic theory which identifies meanings with hyperintensional entities leads to a clarificatio…Read more
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M. Zouhar, Problémy Jazyka A Počiatky Analytickej FilozofieOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 19 (2): 270-276. 2012.
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41How to Assess Theories of Meaning? Some Notes on the Methodology of Semantics1Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 19 (3): 325-337. 2012.The paper presents a two-level approach to an assessment of meaning theories. To begin with, language is distinguished from lan guage-model and, analogously, meaning is discerned from a model of meaning. The first level of a theory assessment is presented as dealing with the relation of a model of meaning to intra-theoretical aims and assumptions of a theory with specific language-model. The second level of assessment concerns ontological, epistemological, logical and other assumptions underlyin…Read more