The Sorites Principle

Author : Ian Gibbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788494521348
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sorites Principle written by Ian Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sorites Principle: How to harness the power of perseverance is a powerful unification of tips, tricks and techniques on how to achieve great things via small efforts. So, do you want to lose weight, learn a new language, become a film director or just keep your home neat and tidy? Then the Sorites Principle is just what you need.

Author : Sergi Oms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107163994
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sorites Paradox written by Sergi Oms and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a systematic introduction and discussion of all the main solutions to the sorites paradox and its areas of influence.

Author : Michael Huemer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319904906
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradox Lost written by Michael Huemer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradox Lost covers ten of philosophy’s most fascinating paradoxes, in which seemingly compelling reasoning leads to absurd conclusions. The following paradoxes are included: The Liar Paradox, in which a sentence says of itself that it is false. Is the sentence true or false? The Sorites Paradox, in which we imagine removing grains of sand one at a time from a heap of sand. Is there a particular grain whose removal converts the heap to a non-heap? The Puzzle of the Self-Torturer, in which a series of seemingly rational choices has us accepting a life of excruciating pain, in exchange for millions of dollars. Newcomb’s Problem, in which we seemingly maximize our expected profit by taking an unknown sum of money, rather than taking the same sum plus $1000. The Surprise Quiz Paradox, in which a professor finds that it is impossible to give a surprise quiz on any particular day of the week . . . but also that if this is so, then a surprise quiz can be given on any day. The Two Envelope Paradox, in which we are asked to choose between two indistinguishable envelopes, and it is seemingly shown that each envelope is preferable to the other. The Ravens Paradox, in which observing a purple shoe provides evidence that all ravens are black. The Shooting Room Paradox, in which a deadly game kills 90% of all who play, yet each individual’s survival turns on the flip of a fair coin. Each paradox is clearly described, common mistakes are explored, and a clear, logical solution offered. Paradox Lost will appeal to professional philosophers, students of philosophy, and all who love intellectual puzzles.

Author : Kit Fine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197514979
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vagueness written by Kit Fine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vagueness is a subject of long-standing interest in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophical logic. Numerous accounts of vagueness have been proposed in the literature but there has been no general consensus on which, if any, should be be accepted. Kit Fine here presents a new theory of vagueness based on the radical hypothesis that vagueness is a "global" rather than a "local" phenomenon. In other words, according to Fine, the vagueness of an object or expression cannot properly be considered except in its relation to other objects or other expressions. He then applies the theory to a variety of topics in logic, metaphysics and epistemology, including the sorites paradox, the problem of personal identity, and the transparency of mental phenomenon. This is the inaugural volume in the Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy series, presenting lectures from the most important contemporary thinkers in the discipline.

Author : L. Stephen Young
Publisher : Infinite Study
ISBN 13 : 1931233462
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book G-Dimensional Theory written by L. Stephen Young and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacques Brunschwig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521417120
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy written by Jacques Brunschwig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection makes available in English twelve papers by the distinguished French scholar Professor Jacques Brunschwig. The essays deal with problems arising in the texts and doctrines of the three major philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period - Epicureanism, Stoicism and Scepticism.

Author : Peter Baofu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443838101
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Post-Human Semantics written by Peter Baofu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal project aims to fundamentally change the way we think about semantics, from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what the author originally called its 'post-human' fate.

Author : Timothy Williamson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118503600
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity and Discrimination written by Timothy Williamson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity and Discrimination This updated edition of Identity and Discrimination, first published in 1990 and the first book by well-known philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued with the inclusion of significant new material. This major work – influential in philosophy of perception and the theory of vagueness – continues in an original and rigorous way to highlight the necessity of discrimination and the thresholds which determine the approximate criteria of identity. Williamson’s proposal for an original and rigorous theory links identity, a relation central to metaphysics, and indiscriminability, a relation central to epistemology. He provides a distinctive cognitive account of the nature of discrimination, with important applications to the philosophy of perception and the theory of vagueness. The book pioneers the use of epistemic logic to solve the notorious paradoxes of indiscriminability, and develops the application of techniques from mathematical logic to understand issues about identity over time and across possible worlds.

Author : Timothy Williamson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119616727
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Philosophy written by Timothy Williamson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expanded new edition of one of the most influential and controversial books about the nature of philosophy published in the past several decades The Philosophy of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science. In this provocative work, distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson challenges widely-held assumptions and clarifies long-standing misconceptions about the methodology and nature of philosophical inquiry. The author rejects the standard narratives of contemporary philosophy developed from naturalism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and other prominent trends of the twentieth century. Viewing the method of philosophy as evolving from non-philosophical pursuits, Williamson provides readers with fresh insight into the “self-image” of philosophy and offers new ways of understanding what philosophy is and how it actually works. Now in its second edition, this landmark volume comprises the original book and the author’s subsequent work. New topics include the recent history of analytic philosophy, assessments of experimental philosophy, theories of concepts and understanding, Wittgensteinian approaches, popular philosophy, naturalism, morally-loaded examples in philosophy, philosophical applications of scientific methods, and many more. This edition features the author’s latest thoughts on a variety of issues, autobiographical reflections, and replies to critics. Proposes an alternative narrative about the nature of philosophy Argues that the common assumption of philosophical exceptionalism is false Highlights the similarities between philosophy and the other sciences in both methodology and subject matter Explores why contemporary philosophy has failed to articulate an adequate methodology Emphasizes increasing the methodological standards of reasoning in philosophy The Philosophy of Philosophy, Second Edition remains essential reading for philosophers, scholars, graduate and advanced undergraduate students in philosophy, and other readers with a sustained interest in the method and rationale of the doing of philosophy.

Author : Henry Bradford Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Non-Aristotelian Logic written by Henry Bradford Smith and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: