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2008
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Downward causation in fluid convection
Recent developments in nonlinear dynamics have found wide application in many areas of science from physics to neuroscience. Nonlinear phenomena such as feedback loops, inter-leve...
Robert C. Bishop
SYNTHESE
2011
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14 years 12 months ago
Metaphysical underdetermination: why worry?
Various forms of underdetermination that might threaten the realist stance are examined. That which holds between different ‘formulations’ of a theory (such as the Hamiltonian...
Steven French
SYNTHESE
2010
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14 years 11 months ago
Proposition-valued random variables as information
The notion of a proposition as a set of possible worlds or states occupies central stage in probability theory, semantics and epistemology, where it serves as the fundamental unit...
Richard Bradley
SYNTHESE
2008
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Majority merging by adaptive counting
The present paper introduces a belief merging procedure by majority using the standard format of Adaptive Logics. The core structure of the logic ADMc (Adaptive Doxastic Merging by...
Giuseppe Primiero, Joke Meheus
SYNTHESE
2008
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Some remarks on the bearing of model theory on the theory of theories
The present paper offers some remarks on the significance of first order model theory for our understanding of theories, and more generally, for our understanding of the "stru...
William Demopoulos