SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Throughout more than two millennia philosophers adhered massively to ideal standards of scientific rationality going back ultimately to Aristotle’s Analytica posteriora. These s...
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
In this paper I show that Proclus is an adherent of the Classical Model of Science as set out elsewhere in this issue (de Jong and Betti 2008), and that he adjusts certain conditio...
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper concentrates on some aspects of the history of the analytic-synthetic distinction from Kant to Bolzano and Frege. This history evinces considerable continuity but also ...
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper presents a novel semantic analysis of unit names (like pound and meter) and gradable adjectives (like tall, short and happy), inspired by measurement theory (Krantz et a...
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
The focus of the paper is on the logic of clarity and the problem of higherorder vagueness. We first examine the consequences of the notion of intransitivity of indiscriminabilit...
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
There exists a considerable body of work on epistemic logics for resource-bounded reasoners. In this paper, we concentrate on a less studied aspect of resource-bounded reasoning, n...