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Ontological infidelity
Abstract In ethical discourse, it is common practice to distinguish between normative commitments and descriptive commitments. Normative commitments reflect what a person ought to ...
Patrick Dieveney
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2008
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Interpolation in computing science: the semantics of modularization
The Interpolation Theorem, first formulated and proved by W. Craig fifty years ago for predicate logic, has been extended to many other logical frameworks and is being applied in s...
Gerard R. Renardel de Lavalette
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A sufficient condition for pooling data
We consider the problems arising from using sequences of experiments to discover the causal structure among a set of variables, none of whom are known ahead of time to be an "...
Frederick Eberhardt
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2008
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On the role of language in social choice theory
Axiomatic characterization results in social choice theory are usually compared either regarding the normative plausibility or regarding the logical strength of the axioms involved...
Marc Pauly
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2008
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Methodological naturalism and epistemic internalism
Epistemic naturalism holds that the results or methodologies from the cognitive sciences are relevant to epistemology, and some have maintained that scientific methods are more com...
Gregory R. Wheeler, Luís Moniz Pereira