Sökning: "Peter Pagin"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Peter Pagin.
1. Knowledge Closure and Knowledge Openness : A Study of Epistemic Closure Principles
Sammanfattning : The principle of epistemic closure is the claim that what is known to follow from knowledge is known to be true. This intuitively plausible idea is endorsed by a vast majority of knowledge theorists. There are significant problems, however, that have to be addressed if epistemic closure – closed knowledge – is endorsed. LÄS MER
2. Ideas for a theory of rules
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3. Philosophy of Mathematics for the Masses : Extending the scope of the philosophy of mathematics
Sammanfattning : One of the important discussions in the philosophy of mathematics, is that centered on Benacerraf’s Dilemma. Benacerraf’s dilemma challenges theorists to provide an epistemology and semantics for mathematics, based on their favourite ontology. LÄS MER
4. Deflationism : A Use-Theoretic Analysis of the Truth-Predicate
Sammanfattning : I here develop a specific version of the deflationary theory of truth. I adopt a terminology on which deflationism holds that an exhaustive account of truth is given by the equivalence between truth-ascriptions and de-nominalised (or disquoted) sentences. LÄS MER
5. Analyticity, Necessity and Belief : Aspects of two-dimensional semantics
Sammanfattning : A glass couldn't contain water unless it contained H2O-molecules. Likewise, a man couldn't be a bachelor unless he was unmarried. Now, the latter is what we would call a conceptual or analytical truth. It's also what we would call a priori. LÄS MER