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...

In this paper we apply the idea of Revision Rules, originally developed within the framework of the theory of truth and later extended to a general mode of definition, to the analysis of the arithmetical hierarchy. This is also intended as an example of how ideas and tools from philosophical logic can provide a different perspective on mathematically more “respectable” entities. Revision Rules ...

Abstract Rudolf Carnap’s principle of tolerance states that there is no need to justify the adoption a logic by philosophical means. Carnap uses freedom provided this in his philosophy mathematics: he wants capture idea mathematical truth matter linguistic rules relying on strong metalanguage with infinitary inference rules. In paper, I give new interpretation an argument E. W. Beth, which show...

The technological and social success of the natural sciences—particularly the physical sciences, biology and geology—during the 19th and 20th centuries has led to an intriguing consequence: the expansion of rules, modes of discourse and philosophical perspectives from the natural sciences into other discourses and forms of life. Academic psychology’s long love affair with the modernist program ...

The paper proposes that expanded and improved treatment of morphological information is both needed and newly possible in electronic English dictionaries, including dictionaries for native speakers. The focus is dictionary selection, treatment, and presentation of derived words. Inconsistencies and inadequacies can be attributed not only to print’s legacy, but also to assumptions about native s...

This paper discusses proof-theoretic semantics, the project of specifying the meanings of the logical constants in terms of rules of inference governing them. I concentrate on Michael Dummett’s and Dag Prawitz’ philosophical motivations and give precise characterisations of the crucial notions of harmony and stability, placed in the context of proving normalisation results in systems of natural...

The aim of the book is to give a non-technical introduction to statistical learning theory at undergraduate level. Statistical learning theory is concerned with the reliability of rules for classifying a new case—e.g., diagnosing a disease in a new patient—on the basis of other features of the case and a large stock of past cases and their features and classifications. The book is based on a co...

I begin by underscoring a fundamental point of agreement between Morrison and Weaver and me: that data analysis should entail designing whatever set of techniques optimizes insight into whatever question the experiment was designed to address, rather than implementing some rote set of pre-ordained rules and regulations. Against this shared philosophical backdrop I then (1) reiterate problems wi...