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Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
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The article was published on 1969-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2239 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fundamental ontology & Ontology.read more
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“Dry Truth and Real Knowledge”: Epistemologies of Metaphor and Metaphors of Epistemology
TL;DR: Locke is eloquent in defence of plain speech as discussed by the authors, though he admits that since wit and fancy find easier entertainment than dry truth and real knowledge, figurative speeches and allusions in language will hardly be admitted as an imperfection of it.
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From Desire to Subjective Value: What Neuroeconomics Reveals about Naturalism
TL;DR: For instance, the authors argue that moral beliefs are insufficient for motivating agents, since motivation requires in addition to a belief the presence of a conative state such as a desire, whereas externalists deny this.
On the semantics of propositional attitude reports
TL;DR: It is suggested that attitude contents should be characterized in terms of abstract concepts, which are connected by way of a number of basic logical relations derived from a version of Quinean predicate-functor logic, to handle all logical relationships definable by first-order predicate calculus in a way that does not exploit variable-like entities.
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Macroscopic Ontology in Everettian Quantum Mechanics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate various metaphysical frameworks which might be combined with the SaundersWallace semantics and conclude that the most appropriate metaphysics to underwrite the semantics renders Everettian quantum mechanics a theory of non-overlapping worlds.
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Rationality as Effective Organisation of Interaction and Its Naturalist Framework
TL;DR: A principled framework for a naturalistic, interactivist-constructivist model of rational capacity and a sketch of the model itself, indicating its merits are provided, including (reflexively) of reason itself.