Russell's version of the multiple-relation theory from the Theory of Knowledge man­ uscript is presented and defended against some objections. A new problem, related to defining truth via correspondence, is reconstructed from Russell's remarks and what we know of Wittgenstein's objection to Russell's theory. In the end, under­ standing this objection in terms of correspondence helps to link Rus...

His defence, which focuses on premise (), consists in ‘arguing in § directly for premise () and responding to Casullo’s objections, and secondly by arguing in § for the contrapositive of ()’.2 I shall argue that Thurow’s response misconstrues my objection and that his positive arguments fall short of their goal. Since the objection which he considers is taken out of its original dialectica...

Mr. Aloys Müller’s criticism of the conception of number theory as a theory that deals with meaningless signs (“number signs”) consists basically in three objections. A discussion of these objections is useful for clarifying the standpoint of intuitive number theory, and thereby also that of Hilbert’s proof theory. 1. The first objection is terminological and is directed against the use of the ...

In this essay I examine the formal structure of the concept of futility, enabling identification of the appropriate roles played by patient, professional, and society. I argue that the concept of futility does not justify unilateral decisions to forego life-sustaining medical treatment over patient or legitimate surrogate objection, even when futility is determined by a process or subject to et...

I answer Alvin Plantinga’s challenge to provide a ‘proper’ de jure objection to religious belief. What I call the ‘sophisticates’ evidential objection’ (SEO) concludes that sophisticated Christians lack epistemic justification for believing central Christian propositions. The SEO utilizes a theory of epistemic justification in the spirit of the evidentialism of Richard Feldman and Earl Conee. I...

In this paper, we present an argument strengthening the view of Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy and Ichiro Kawachi that justice is good for one’s health. We argue that the pathways through which social factors produce inequalities in sleep more strongly imply a unidirectional and non-voluntary causality than with most other public health issues. Specifically, we argue against the ‘voluntarism obj...

This paper explores the specific criticism of directed altruistic living organ donation that it creates a 'beauty contest' between potential recipients of organs. The notion of the beauty contest in transplantation was recently used by Neidich et al who stated that '[a]ltruism should be the guiding motivation for all donations, and when it [is], there is no place for a beauty contest'. I examin...

This research aims to study the relationship between textual objection and its contingent structure or in text general of speech, this deals with tools that achieve harmony cohesion represented by referral, deletion, linkage, replacement, repetition addressing a number noble Qur’anic verses which it occurred. The semantic syntactic effects result from objection.