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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.

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Propositions as semantic pretense

TL;DR: Proposition-talk as mentioned in this paper can be interpreted as being about propositions, even if problems about the identity conditions for propositions motivated a Quinean rejection of them, and the advantages of interpreting it as being purportedly about propositions.
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Innatism and the Stoa

TL;DR: The question of whether the soul in itself is blank like a writing tablet on which nothing has as yet been written as mentioned in this paper, as Aristotle and the author of the Essay maintain, and whether everything which is inscribed there comes solely from the senses and experience, or whether the SOUL inherently contains the sources of various notions and doctrines which external objects merely rouse up on suitable occasions, as I believe and as do Plato and even the Schoolmen, and those who understand in this sense the passage in Saint Paul where he says that God's law is written in our hearts.
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Donald Davidson: Knowledge of Self, Others, and World

Ernest Sosa
TL;DR: Davidson's epistemology, like Kant's, features a transcendental argument as its centerpiece as discussed by the authors, which is a way to argue, to all appearances a priori, from how it is in our minds to how things are in the world.
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Quine's 1946 Lectures on Hume

TL;DR: Examen des positions de Quine sur les points fondamentaux de l'epistemologie de Hume : les relations, la divisibilite a l'infini, les idees et les etats de chose, l'induction.
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Perceptual variation, realism, and relativization, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love variations in color vision

TL;DR: In many cases of variation in color vision, there is no nonarbitrary way of choosing between variants as discussed by the authors, and there is an unknown standard for choosing, whereas eliminativists claim that all the variants are erroneous.