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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Quine"”.
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Naturalizing epistemology : reconsidering Quine and Nietzsche
… basic viability concerns by looking back to Quine and Nietzsche. In this regard, I offer a new interpretation of Quine's naturalized epistemology and his turn to psychology--one that reduces concerns about coherence, but still affirms he was not abandoning normative epistemology. I also offer …
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Theories and reality: Five essays on Quine and underdetermination.
Theories and reality: Five essays on Quine and underdetermination.
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Complessità teoriche della prospettiva naturalista di Willard Van Orman Quine
… più controversi del sistema filosofico di Quine, nel tentativo di scioglierne alcuni e rendere evidente la complessità teorica del suo pensiero. Si è cercato di sottolineare il profondo contributo che l’autore ha dato nell’ambito della filosofia analitica e non solo. In ambito semantico …
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An Extensionalist Approach to Ontological Commitment: Why Quine is Mostly Right
… ontological commitment was developed by W.V.O. Quine. However, Quine's criterion has been attacked for presumably not meeting his own standards for an acceptable theory. After explaining the motivation and details of Quine's criterion, I will tum to the prominent objections against his theory. I …
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Confronting the Normativity Objection: W.V. Quine’s Engineering Model and Michael A. Bishop and J.D. Trout’s Strategic Reliabilism
… of this thesis is to critically examine how W.V. Quine, Michael A. Bishop and J.D. Trout confront the normativity objection against naturalized epistemology. In Chapter One, normativity in epistemology is introduced, followed by a brief look over Quine’s grievances against the traditional approach …
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Sinnesreize, Sprache und Erfahrung : eine Studie zur Quineschen Erkenntnistheorie
In Willard Van Orman Quines holistischer Erkenntnistheorie nehmen Beobachtungssätze eine prominente Rolle ein. Durch ihren janusköpfigen Charakter als einerseits theoriefreie, holophrastisch mit Reizen verknüpfte und andererseits als in theoretischen Kontexten analytisch reinterpretierbare Sätze …
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An Algorithm for multi-output Boolean logic minimization
… algorithm is shown to be tighter than the Quine-McCluskey method in its ability to eliminate redundant prime implicants, making it possible to simplify the cyclic tables. In its final form, the proposed algorithm is truly concurrent in generation of prime implicants and construction of …
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Identity and modality
… the most popular worries with Kripke's project: Quine's objection of referential opacity and the problems of transworld identification. I hope to show that both of these worries are merely worries, and the air of serious objection they both carry can be dispelled.
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A consideration of two attacks upon the sharp analytic-synthetic distinction
… the sharp analytic-synthetic distinction made by Quine in "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" and by White in "The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism". This essay attempts to show not only that these attacks are ill-conceived, but also that Carnap's semantic methods can be used to explain …
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Mathematics, time, and confirmation
… in them, and defends this thesis against the Quine-Putnam Indispensability Argument. Chapter 2, "Scientific Ontology," is a critical study of W. V. Quine's claim that metaphysics and mathematics are epistemologically on a par with natural science. It is argued that Quine's view relies on a …
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Abstraction in technical computing
… The resulting language, Julia, achieves a Quine-style "explication by elimination" of many of the productive features technical computing users expect.
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Davidson and Conceptual Schemes
… which can be developed using the work of Kant, Quine, and Kuhn I aim to make three criticisms of Davidson's arguments: firstly I will argue that Davidson is unable to respond to the claim that the reality which schemes must fit is unknowable; secondly I will argue that Davidson is wrong to …
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The roles of language in selected novels of Thomas Berger.
… views of Ludwig Wittgenstein and W.V. Quine.
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On the metaphysics of belief
… believes that Hesperus is Phosphorus" is false. Quine has insisted that we cannot address this problem by taking either of these sentences to express a predication of the referent of both names, the planet Venus, as then both sentences would express the same predication of the same object, and …
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Carnap and the Ontology of Mathematics
… objections by, among others, Kurt Gödel, W. V. Quine, and Hilary Putnam. The most powerful challenge to Carnap's view, however, can actually be found in a less well-known paper by the logician E. W. Beth. The core of my thesis is thus a new interpretation of what I call Beth's argument from …
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Automatic tool path generation for multi-axis machining
… Next, a minimum set cover algorithm like the Quine-McCluskey Algorithm is used to select the minimum set of orientations from which the entire workpiece can be accessed. These set of orientations correspond to the setups in the machining plan, and also dictate the orientation in which the …
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La distinción analítico/sintético y sus implicaciones para la semántica
… Sin embargo, a partir de las críticas de Quine a la noción de analiticidad, que afecta también a la sinonimia, y el consecuente rechazo de la distinción analítico/sintético la concepción del significado de la Perspectiva Tradicional ha entrado en crisis. Y esta crisis se explica en cuanto …
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Scientific change and the meanings of terms : an examination of P.K. Feyerabend's incommensurability theses
… of the network model developed by Duhem, Quine and Hesse.
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