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10 November 2000 |
Lecture |
The importance of erotetic inferences for scientific reasoning, and for reasoning and problem solving in general, can hardly be overestimated. The explanation of new phenomena, the discovery of new laws and theories, even the design and performance of experiments, all... Read more |
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20 October 2000 |
Lecture |
Dispositions are essential in the description, the understanding, the explanation and the prediction of events. We say that sugar and salt are soluble. We also say that red wine stains unlike beer and that thin rubber is flexible and elastic while steel is stiff and sturdy... Read more |
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12 October 2000 to 14 October 2000 |
Conference |
The Ontological Foundations of Paraconsistency |
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4 October 2000 |
Lecture |
I shall report on two new papers: I) A Dynamic Characterization of the Pure Logic of Relevant Implication. It is known that there are dynamic proofs for consequence relations that are non-monotonic, and also for monotonic consequence relations that lack a positive test.... Read more |
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27 September 2000 |
Lecture |
In het kader van het stimuleringsprogramma "Innovatie Hoger Onderwijs", ontwikkelt het centrum voor Logica en Wetenschapsfilosofie een logicaprogramma waarmee de studenten zelfstandig logica-oefeningen kunnen maken. Dit programma draait onder Windows en vormt een... Read more |
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27 April 2000 to 29 April 2000 |
Conference |
The aim of the project is to elaborate the foundations of paraconsistency, both from a logical and an epistemological point of view. With the advent of paraconsistent logics and inconsistent mathematical systems, there is a strong need to embed these in a broader framework... Read more |
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31 March 2000 |
Lecture |
Nowadays there is a growing interest among moral philosophers, philosophers of action and social action, and philosophers of the social sciences in the topic of collective responsibility. The philosophical interest is part of the more general trend of broadening the scope... Read more |
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22 March 2000 |
Lecture |
Constructing explanations can have instrumental and intellectual benefits. The instrumental benefits are cognitive states that are produced by explanations and that, together with other factors, determine somehow how we will act in the future. The intellectual benefits are... Read more |
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23 February 2000 |
Lecture |
Een van de oudste en meest populaire paraconsistente systemen is Jaskowski's discussieve logica D2. De term « discussieve logica » is ontleend aan het volgende idee. Stel dat de deelnemers in een discussie tegenstrijdige opinies naar voor brengen. In dat geval zullen... Read more |
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2 February 2000 |
Lecture |
1. Waarheid en bewijsbaarheid als partiele predikaten. We beschouwen informele bewijsbaarheid en waarheid als primitieve partiele predikaten en formuleren Kripkeaanse inductieve definities voor deze noties. Vervolgens onderzoeken we de logische interactie tussen de extensie... Read more |
