Can we Ensure the Intended Interpretation of an Utterance?

On what we can ensure

The Conjunction Principle says, roughly, that if the truth of a conjunction can be brought about, then the truth of each conjunct can be brought about. The current essay argues that this principle is not valid. After a clarification of the principle, it is shown how a proper understanding of the involved notions falsify the principle. As a corollary, a recent attack on van Inwagen’s Consequence...

When Can Finite Testing Ensure Infinite Trustworthiness?

In this paper we contribute to the general philosophical‎ ‎question as to whether empirical testing can ever prove a physical law.‎ ‎Problems that lead to this question arise under several contexts‎, ‎and the ‎matter has been addressed by the likes of Bayes and Laplace‎. ‎After pointing‎ ‎out that a Bayesian approach is the proper way to address this problem‎, ‎we‎ ‎show that the answ...

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

Towards Context-adaptive Utterance Interpretation

The intended interpretation of intuitionistic logic

We present an overview of the unintended interpretations of intuitionistic logic that arose after Heyting formalized the “observed regularities” in the use of formal parts of language, in particular, first-order logic and Heyting Arithmetic. We include unintended interpretations of some mild variations on “official” intuitionism, such as intuitionistic type theories with full comprehension and ...