To Suspend Finitude Itself: Hegel’s Reaction to Kant’s First Antinomy

Three Approaches to Finitude in Belief Change

Since neither a human mind nor a computer can deal directly with infinite structures, well-behaved models of belief change should operate exclusively on belief states that have a finite representation. Three ways to achieve this without resorting to a finite language are investigated: belief bases, specified meet contraction, and focused propositional extenders. Close connections are shown to h...

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The Sense of Finitude and the Finitude of Sense

For Martin Heidegger in Being and Time, human existence (Dasein) is essentially finite in its directedness toward death as a final and unavoidable individuating possibility. In Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Heidegger further specifies the finitude of Dasein, following Kant, as the capacity to be affected by external objects, which gives rise to the temporal problem of the relationship be...

How to Release Frege’s System from Russell’s Antinomy

The conditions for proper definitions in mathematics are given, in terms of the theory of definition, on the basis of the criterions of eliminability and non-creativity. As a definition, Russell’s antinomy is a violation of the criterion of eliminability (Behmann, 1931, [1]; Bochvar, 1943, [2]). Following the path of the criterion of non-creativity, this paper develops a new analysis of Compreh...

non-corrective approach to pronunciation

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...