Debunking Logical Ground: Distinguishing Metaphysics from Semantics

Metaphysics of Logical Realism

با اینکه اغلب به غلط تصور می­شود که فلسفۀ تحلیلی، به عنوان یک جنبش ضد-متافیزیکی، هیچ ارتباطی با متافیزیک ندارد، اما دلایل خوبی وجود دارند که بر اساس آن می­توان تمایلات متافیزیکی فیلسوفان تحلیلی را تصدیق نمود و متعاقباً ماهیت ضد-متافیزیکی فلسفه تحلیلی را در تمام مراحل شکل­گیری­اش به حداقل رساند. چون فلسفه تحلیلی یک جنبش تاریخی است که ماهیت اصلی آن در چند مرحله شکل یافته است، لذا با پیگیری این مرا...

Orientation : from metaphysics to semantics

Less roughly: Two figures in a space1 S are are isometric iff there is a distance-preserving bijection between the points of one and the points of the other. It is common to talk as if we can ‘move’ a geometric figure around in a given space. That’s loose. Better to think of it like this: some regions of a given space are translations, rotations, or reflections of other regions of the space. Th...

metaphysics of logical realism

despite the often false impression that the analytic philosophy as an anti-metaphysical movement has nothing to do with metaphysics, there can be found good reasons to grant the metaphysical dispositions of analytic philosophers, and thereby, to minimize the anti-metaphysical nature of analytic philosophy in its all phases. since analytic philosophy is a historical movement the main nature of w...

The Logical Basis of Metaphysics

A Logical Semantics for Depth-First Prolog with Ground Negation

A sound and complete semantics is given for sequential, depth-rst logic programming with a version of negation as failure. The semantics is logical in the sense that it is built up only from valuation functions (multi-valued logic interpretations in the style of Fitting and Kunen) and logically-motivated equivalence relations between formulas. The notion of predicate folding and unfolding with ...