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Volume 12 (2021)
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Volume 10 (2019)
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Number of Articles: 6
Contextualism vs Minimalism in Semantics
Volume 8, Issue 2 , November 2017, Pages 1-23
Abstract
Contextualism is the main opponent of minimalism. The debate between these two semantical approaches, stem in an old fashion dispute to determine the border between semantics and pragmatics. Contextualists claim that the sentences in the natural language are not truth-evaluable before being enriched ... Read MoreAn Analysis of Probabilistic Criteria in Inference to the Best Explanation
Volume 8, Issue 2 , November 2017, Pages 25-48
Abstract
According to a favored version of inference to the best explanation (IBE), the hypothesis that provides the best explanation for a group of observed phenomena is probably true. One of the key objections against this line of thought is Voltaire’s objection. According to this objection, we have no ... Read MoreThe relationship between necessity conditional and value of its antecedent and consequence in Avicennian logic
Volume 8, Issue 2 , November 2017, Pages 49-68
Abstract
In Muslim’s logic of conditionals there is a consensus that the value of necessity conditional is defined by relationship between antecedent and consequent and not by the value of antecedent or consequent. However, in their opinions there are discussions on possibility of truth or falsehood based ... Read MoreCritique of Wittgenstein’s family resemblance criticisms to the Aristotelian definitions
Volume 8, Issue 2 , November 2017, Pages 69-96
Abstract
The family resemblance’s theory of Wittgenstein is the most influential contemporary theory of, or, to put it more precisely, against “definition”. The theory’s main opposition is towards essential definitions, whose leading theoretician is known to be Aristotle. In modern era, ... Read MoreA reflection in “Social factors in mathematical and logical knowledge (according to Edinburgh school)”
Volume 8, Issue 2 , November 2017, Pages 97-122
Abstract
In article of “social factors in mathematical and logical knowledge” The Author shows that social factors are determinant in logical and mathematical knowledge as differences of mathematicians, variety of contradiction in Reductio ad absurdum, deconstruction in infinite values, Wittgenstein`s ... Read MoreA critical investigation on Grice's account of truth functionality of conditionals in natural language on the basis of the idea of assertability
Volume 8, Issue 2 , November 2017, Pages 123-152