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2010
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Color, context, and compositionality
Christopher Kennedy, Louise McNally
SYNTHESE
2010
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The Classical Model of Science: a millennia-old model of scientific rationality
Throughout more than two millennia philosophers adhered massively to ideal standards of scientific rationality going back ultimately to Aristotle’s Analytica posteriora. These s...
Willem R. de Jong, Arianna Betti
SYNTHESE
2010
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Proclus on the order of philosophy of nature
In this paper I show that Proclus is an adherent of the Classical Model of Science as set out elsewhere in this issue (de Jong and Betti 2008), and that he adjusts certain conditio...
Marije Martijn
SYNTHESE
2010
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The analytic-synthetic distinction and the classical model of science: Kant, Bolzano and Frege
This paper concentrates on some aspects of the history of the analytic-synthetic distinction from Kant to Bolzano and Frege. This history evinces considerable continuity but also ...
Willem R. de Jong
SYNTHESE
2010
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Measurement theory in linguistics
This paper presents a novel semantic analysis of unit names (like pound and meter) and gradable adjectives (like tall, short and happy), inspired by measurement theory (Krantz et a...
Galit Weidman Sassoon
SYNTHESE
2010
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Mass nouns, vagueness and semantic variation
Gennaro Chierchia
SYNTHESE
2010
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Vagueness, uncertainty and degrees of clarity
The focus of the paper is on the logic of clarity and the problem of higherorder vagueness. We first examine the consequences of the notion of intransitivity of indiscriminabilit...
Paul Égré, Denis Bonnay
SYNTHESE
2010
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Belief ascription under bounded resources
There exists a considerable body of work on epistemic logics for resource-bounded reasoners. In this paper, we concentrate on a less studied aspect of resource-bounded reasoning, n...
Natasha Alechina, Brian Logan