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Structural realism is an attempt to balance the competing demands of the No Miracles Argument and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction. In this paper I trace the development of the struc...
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2008
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Anyadvancedtheoryofphysicscontainsmodulesdefinedasessentialcomponents that are themselves theories with different domains of application. Different kinds of modules can be distingu...
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2008
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Abstract We argue that in the decision making process required for selecting assertible vague descriptions of an object, it is practical that communicating agents adopt an epistemi...
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2008
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In this paper I discuss some of the criteria that are widely used in the linguistic and philosophical literature to classify an aspect of meaning as either semantic or pragmatic. W...
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ABSTRACT. In this paper, illocutionary acts of commanding will be differentiated from perlocutionary acts that affect preferences of addressees in a new dynamic logic which combine...