Philosophical Conjectures and Their Refutation

Philosophical conjectures and their refutation.

Sir Karl Popper is well known for explicating science in falsificationist terms, for which his degree of corroboration formalism, C(h,e,b), has become little more than a symbol. For example, de Queiroz and Poe in this issue argue that C(h,e,b) reduces to a single relative (conditional) probability, p(e,hb), the likelihood of evidence e, given both hypothesis h and background knowledge b, and in...

Philosophical Intuitions: Their Target, Their Source, and Their Epistemic Status

Intuitions play a critical role in analytical philosophical activity. But do they qualify as genuine evidence for the sorts of conclusions philosophers seek? Skeptical arguments against intuitions are reviewed, and a variety of ways of trying to legitimate them are considered. A defense is off ered of their evidential status by showing how their evidential status can be embedded in a naturalist...

Evaluating EFL Learners’ Philosophical Mentality through their Answers to Philosophical Questions: Using Smith’s Framework

Given the role philosophical mentality can fulfill in bringing individuals the essential skills of wisdom and well thinking, the present paper, by applying Smith’s (2007) theoretical framework, strived to explore the extent philosophic-mindedness exists among the participants. Considering the fact that, a philosophic mind begets philosophical answers, the participants’ philosophical thi...

The refutation of any extra-sensory perception in Vedānta Deśika: a philosophical appraisal of Seśvaramīmāṃsā ad

Some Conjectures About Invariant Theory and their Applications

It turns out that various algebraic computations can be reduced to the same type of computations: one has to study the series of integrals ∫ K f(k)g(k) dk, where f, g are complex valued K-finite functions on a compact Lie group K. So it is tempting to state a general conjecture about the behavior of such integrals, and to investigate the consequences of the conjecture. Main conjecture: Let K be...