‘Can’ and the Consequence Argument

A flawed conception of determinism in the Consequence Argument

According to the Consequence Argument, the truth of determinism plus other plausible principles would yield the conclusion that we have no free will. In this paper I will argue that the conception of determinism typically employed in the various versions of the Consequence Argument is not plausible. In particular, I will argue that, taken most straightforwardly, determinism as defined in the Co...

Part Two: Logical Consequence ≠ Necessary Truth Preservation 1.1 Meta-theoretic Argument #1: the Gödel/tarski Argument

I suspect that this paper is written in a way that doesn’t reflect how Field actually came to the views he has about the normativity of logic. It seems likely to me that first (i) Field convinced himself that the relation of logical consequence could not be (even co-extensional with) the relation of necessary truth preservation (NTP), for reasons he lays out in PART TWO of the paper, then (ii) ...

consequence analysis of the leakage, ignition and explosion during high pressure sour gas injection process to the oil reservoir

there is no doubt that human being needs to become integrated with industry and industry needs to be progressed, daily. on the other hand, serious events in industrial units specially in oil industries has been shown that such damages and events are industry related ones. the consequence of such events and damages which resulted in chemical and poisoned explosions and loss of life and property ...

Freedom, responsibility and the past A consideration of the new consequence argument

Can Shallow Predicate Argument Structures Determine Entailment?

The CLaC Lab’s system for the PASCAL RTE challenge explores the potential of simple general heuristics and a knowledge-poor approach for recognising paraphrases, using NP coreference, NP chunking, and two parsers (RASP and Link) to produce Predicate Argument Structures (PAS) for each of the pair components. WordNet lexical chains and a few specialised heuristics are used to establish semantic s...