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She distinguishes moral mathematical truth from elegance, saying that, An elegant proof is often a clever trick, a piece of magic…, the sort of proof that drives you mad when ...

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epub |eng | 2011-10-14 | Author:Lee, Barry;

4. The inscrutability of reference and the indeterminacy of translation Suppose you and I were each individually to attempt to devise translation manuals of a foreign tongue, where the language ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-03 | Author:Forster, Michael N. [Forster, Michael N.]

1 G6:353. For an earlier example of Herder’s commitment to this sort of position, see his recommendation in the Fragments (1767–8) that one should explore the changing nature of people’s ...

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4.3 THE PROBABILISTIC THEORY OF INDICATIVE CONDITIONALS The rival theory involves the notion of probability. If we are considering truth-functional formulas involving the first k sentence letters, then there are ...