Fine’s Monster Objection Defanged

Of Objection

Sierra Legal is filing this Notice of Objection on behalf of the David Suzuki Foundation, Environmental Defence, and the Canadian Environmental Law Association, pursuant to sections 332(2) and 333 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 to the Minister of the Environment, the Hon. John Baird, with respect to the proposed Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers Regulations. The proposed regula...

Monster Roots

Monster Analogies

tion. Over the centuries, it has become reified in that analogical reasoning has sometimes been regarded as a fundamental cognitive process. In addition, it has become identified with a particular expressive format. The limitations of the modern view are illustrated by monster analogies, which show that analogy need not be regarded as something having a single form, format, or semantics. Analog...

Overcoming Newman’s Objection

Bertrand Russell (The analysis of matter. Routledge, London, 1927) defended a form of structuralism according to which all we can know about the world is structure. In response, Max Newman (Mind 37:137–148, 1928) raised a formidable challenge that threatens to turn structuralism into something trivial: as long as there are enough objects in the relevant domain, one can always obtain a structure...

Objection-Based Causal Networks

This paper introduces the notion of objection-based causal networks. which resemble probabilistic causal networks ex­ cept that tht:>y are quant.ified using ob­ jections. An objection is a logical sen­ tence and denotes a condition under which a causal dependency does not exist. Objection-based causal net.works enjoy al­ most all the properties that make proba­ bilistic causal networks popular,...