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Are the Bundle Theory and the Substratum Theory Really Twin Brothers?
Axiomathes - Tập 19 - Trang 73-85 - 2008
In a recent paper, Jiri Benovsky argues that the bundle theory and the substratum theory, traditionally regarded as ‘deadly enemies’ in the metaphysics literature, are in fact ‘twin brothers’. That is, they turn out to be ‘equivalent for all theoretical purposes’ upon analysis. The only exception, according to Benovsky, is a particular version of the bundle theory whose distinguishing features ren......
A Correspondence Theory of Exemplification
Axiomathes - Tập 23 - Trang 365-380 - 2012
What is exemplification? A proposition that attributes a property to an object is true if the object exemplifies the property. But according to the correspondence theory, a proposition is true if the corresponding fact exists. So if the correspondence theory is correct, an exemplification of a temporal property by an object is simply the concrete circumstance of the object’s having the property. B......
Justifying the Special Theory of Relativity with Unconceived Methods
Axiomathes - Tập 28 - Trang 53-62 - 2017
Many realists argue that present scientific theories will not follow the fate of past scientific theories because the former are more successful than the latter. Critics object that realists need to show that present theories have reached the level of success that warrants their truth. I reply that the special theory of relativity has been repeatedly reinforced by unconceived scientific methods, s......
Epistemic Relativism, Probability, and Forms of Subjectivity
Axiomathes - Tập 32 - Trang 1061-1079 - 2021
In this article, the epistemological interpretation of the relationship between concepts of relativism, beliefs, and probability ensures a defense of two theses, namely, (i) epistemic relativism refers to attitudes that depend on the repetition and anchoring of probabilistic beliefs, and (ii) Popper’s propensity interpretation of probability discloses the connections between relativity, probabilit......
Functional Entailment and Immanent Causation in Relational Biology
Axiomathes - Tập 18 - Trang 289-302 - 2008
I explicate the crucial role played by efficient cause in Robert Rosen’s characterization of life, by elaborating on the topic of Aristotelian causality, and exploring the many alternate descriptions of causal and inferential entailments. In particular, I discuss the concepts of functional entailment and immanent causation, and examine how they fit into Robert Rosen’s relational-biology universe o......
Contextual Causal Dependence and Causal Contrastivism
Axiomathes - Tập 32 - Trang 671-684 - 2022
This work presents a defense of causal contrastivism based on causal contexualism. As argued, our proposal on causal contextualism is compatible with both causal contrastivism and causal binarism, including explanations of why and in which sense secondary counterfactuals are relevant.
In Defence of Metametasemantics
Axiomathes - Tập 31 - Trang 401-418 - 2019
In the paper I defend the idea of metametasemantics against the arguments recently presented by Ori Simchen (2017). Simchen attacks the view, according to which metametasemantics incorporating all possible metasemantic accounts is necessary to protect the metasemantic theories from the notorious problem of inscrutability of reference (see Sider 2011). Simchen claims that if metametasemantics is al......
A Snag in Cantor’s Paradise
Axiomathes - Tập 31 - Trang 525-527 - 2020
The paper claims that the strategy adopted in the proof of Cantor’s theorem is problematic. Using the strategy, an unacceptable situation is built. The paper also makes the suggestion that the proof of Cantor’s theorem is possible due to lack of an apparatus to represent emptiness at a certain level in the ontology of set-theory.
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