Teoria modus concipiendi w epistemologii Richarda Burthogge’a

To Modus

A COUNTEREXAMPLE TO MODUS PONENS* T HE rule of modus ponens, which tells us that from an indicative conditional rlf cjJ then 1/1 l, 1 together with its antecedent cjJ, one can infer 1/1, is one of the fundamental principles of logic. 2 Yet, as the following examples show, it is not strictly valid; there are occasions on which one has good grounds for believing the premises of an application of ...

Apunts de teoria de jocs

C. Funcions convexes 31 C.1 Funcions convexes . . . . . . . . . . . 31 C.2 Funcions còncaves . . . . . . . . . . . 32 C.3 Operacions que preserven la convexitat . 32 C.4 Continuïtat i derivabilitat de funcions convexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 C.5 Exemples de funcions convexes en R . . 33 C.6 Exemples de funcions convexes en R . 33 C.7 Funcions quasiconvexes . . . . . . . . . 33 C.8...

Naive Modus Ponens

In his [2011], Lionel Shapiro proposes a very interesting deflationist conception of logical consequence, according to which the logical-consequence predicate applying to sentences serves as a merely expressive device allowing us to talk in a generalising way about typically non-linguistic entailment facts (just as, according to a deflationist conception of truth, the truth predicate applying t...

Est modus in rebus.

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