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Ontological Relativity and Other Essays

Willard Van Orman Quine
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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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The Relation Between Epistemology and Psychology

Alvin I. Goldman
- 01 Jul 1985 - 
TL;DR: In the wake of Frege's attack on psychologism and the subsequent influence of Logical Positivism, psychological considerations in philosophy came to be viewed with suspicion as mentioned in this paper.
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Morality in a Natural World: Selected Essays in Metaethics

David Copp
TL;DR: The ring of gyges as discussed by the authors is a metaphor for the unity of reason and the normativity of self-grounded reason in naturalism and naturalism-based moral realism.
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Ontological metamodeling with explicit instantiation

Alfons Laarman, +1 more
TL;DR: A new metalanguage derived from the study of Formal Ontology is described, which raises the level of abstraction of metamodels from pure abstract syntax to semantics descriptions based on ontologies, so that the language developers can make conscious choices for their modeling concepts and can explicitly define important relations.
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Using epistemic ratios to evaluate hypotheses: an imprecision penalty for imprecise hypotheses.

David Trafimow
- 01 Nov 2006 - 
TL;DR: The author argues that epistemic estimation is most relevant for hypothesis testing and proposes that hypotheses be evaluated via epistemic ratios and explores the implications of this proposal, which suggest it is possible to encourage precise theorizing by imposing a penalty for imprecise hypotheses.
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Charting the map metaphor in theories of religion

Mark Q. Gardiner, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the metaphor of the map metaphor in the theory of religion is discussed, with special reference to the work of J.Z. Smith and some of the problems raised by map metaphor (including its implicit reliance on a naive correspondence view of truth).