anti-realism about the past
Can the Pessimistic Induction Be Saved from Semantic Anti-Realism about Scientific Theory?
... Finally, before proceeding, it should be briefly noted that the problem for the PI-defender is perhaps even more severe than this section has suggested. For reference failure is not the only possible route to ...
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The ‘Truth’ Between Realism and Anti-Realism
... scientific realism specifically on the epistemic ...of past scientific theories – called “Gambit list”- which were thought to be true in the past but turned out ...these past, true scientific ...
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From the Pessimistic Induction to Semantic Anti-realism
... assertions at all—and thus such utterances would be neither true nor false, just like any other sounds emanating from a speaker’s mouth that fail to express propositions. Jay Atlas, a critic of semantic presupposition, ...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Structural Realism But Were Afraid to Ask
... In his reply to Putnam’s model theoretic argument against metaphysical realism Lewis (1983) puts forward the view that it is a contingent fact which relations are more important – and ultimately natural – than ...
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Organisational learning by hearts:a framework to explore organisational moral and immoral learning
... mentioned about Archer’s reflexivity, which refers to “the process responsible for mediating between structural and cultural ‘conditioning’ and human agents, without entailing the obliteration or suspension of the ...
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Philosophy in practice? Doctoral struggles with ontology and subjectivity in qualitative interviewing.
... two communicative contingencies that shape interview activity; the whats and the hows of the interview. The whats refer to the substantive focus of the interview, described here as the specific doctoral topic being ...
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Irish utopian realism?
... The NAMALab portfolio showcases proposals for the renovation of buildings in seven areas of Dublin, ranging from the city’s retail and business core, through areas where earlier urban regeneration initiatives had failed ...
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“Drinking” about the Past: Bar Culture in Antebellum New Orleans
... See also: David Weir Conroy, In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995); Kym Rice, [r] ...
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Three stories about the conduct of science: Past, future, and present
... None of this should be surprising because almost all of it is already here today. It is certainly all possible today. Tracking remote events via video streaming and twitter is commonplace. Data can be obtained from ...
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Realism
... accept realism about ethics and are based on specifi c ontologies, such as that people’s well-being is based on their objective needs, for example, to eat and get shelter, but also on non-physical needs, ...
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Expressivism and realist explanations
... 18). Anti-realism, he says, explains normative discourse and its role in our lives “while avoiding the view that it exists because it describes a genuine aspect of reality” ...of realism in ...
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Logical pluralism and logical normativity
... Let us turn now to the final response. The collapse argument makes certain assumptions about the role of logic in our epistemic lives and about the epistemic ends we pursue. These assumptions are suffi- ...
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The transcendental structure of the world
... if realism about science, metaphysics and ethics is to be possible, then (i) the world must have a transcendental structure that inte- grates the fragmented perspective-dependent spatio-temporal frameworks ...
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Realism and Naturalism in Iris Murdoch’s ‘The Sea, The Sea’
... The approach of the climax is very natural where after the death of his lover’s adopted son, Titus and later his cousin, James; Charles takes a U turn from being psychologically sightless to being existent about ...
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Subjunctive Realism
... In classical physics, the universe is supposed to be independent of the scientist who studies it: the role of the observer is that of a passive recorder of pre-existing facts about the world. Even the so-called ...
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The role of past interactions in great apes’ communication about absent entities
... The Role of Past Interactions in Great Apes’ Communication About Absent Entities.. for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.[r] ...
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A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past
... Variation in the use of the Perfecto and Indefinido does not pose a problem for the binary approach. It can even be framed in binary terms. We noticed that the Latin Plusquamperfectum cantaveram disappeared in Romance ...
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Handling Inconsistency in Knowledge Bases
... All of these aspects of the healthy realist perspective are indications of the realist’s physiological health. As Nietzsche points out when describing the realism of Thucydides, “Thucydides has control over ...
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ANTI ULCER AGENTS: A PHARMACOLOGICAL UPDATE OF THE PAST TEN YEARS
... marketed anti-ulcer drugs (proton-pump ...date, anti- ulcer is one of the most reported ...with anti-ulcer effects have been discussed in this ...the past 10 years’ pharmacological update of ...
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Grammar Tasks 1-6 First Semester
... I go to school at 7:00. Lizards climb on the walls. Also, we use the present tense to talk about things that are always true, or facts. The sun rises in the east. Flowers need water to live. *In the Present Tense, ...
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