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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"philosophy of logic"”.
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Borderline duties and fuzzy values: An analysis of vagueness in ethics
The aim of this thesis is to argue that the problem of overdemanding obligation in consequentialism within normative ethics is fundamentally a problem of vagueness in the specific sense in which the issue is treated within the philosophy of logic and language. This realisation leads to a …
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access with(out) judgment
… the reader on a learning expedition by means of reading, writing, and doodling. Since learning is accessible and actionable for any reader, this text prioritizes opportunities for research-driven practice - the acquisition, contemplation, integration, synthesis, and expression of knowledge on …
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BASIC LOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND ITS JUSTIFICATION
This thesis contributes to the area within the philosophy of logic that concerns epistemological questions about fundamental logical laws. The state of the literature has been dominated by meaning-theoretic approaches that attempt to answer such questions in terms of conditions for understanding …
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The Relationship Between Metaphysics and Logic
Logic and metaphysics are employed to identify and understand the underlying principles of reality, thought, and existence. The goals of these two disciplines appear to overlap in that they both seek implicit principles of reality. However, the debate on their relationship, the question of which …
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Classical logic and its rivals
Classical logic and a given nonclassical logic are, by definition, incompatible in some sense. In some cases, this incompatibility is innocuous. In other cases, the nonclassical logic is incompatible with classical logic on a fundamental level, such that the two logics can be seen as rival theories …
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Restoring Reason: Theology of Logic in Origen of Alexandria
Logic and theology were once spoken of together in a divine speech with which we spoke of God, even as God spoke to us, in one and the same sacred speech. Logic had been conceived as a simulation of speech in argument from the divine Logos. Yet logic has since been repeatedly separated from …