A first order view is a claim about what we ought (morally) to do. Is abortion, genetic engineering, the killing of animals for food, the killing of human beings in ...
I'm mainly into Marx, Foucault, that line of thinking but I am open to other things. I basically want to make it a philosophy focused reading club, because It's not like I ...
Second-order logic has a subtle role in the philosophy of mathematics. It is stronger than first order logic in that it incorporates “for all properties” ...
Consider, for example, the first-order formula "if a is a philosopher, then a is a scholar". This formula is
It must not be supposed that the second entails the first. It is true that a glance at the contents of a typical English philosophical journal suggests that the gulf ...
“Failing to consider second- and third-order consequences is the cause of a lot of painfully bad decisions, and it is especially deadly when the first inferior option ...
First-order logic has a well-studied proof theory and model theory, and it enjoys a ...
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Second-order languages enjoy a greater expressive power than first-order languages. For example, a set S of sentences is said to be categorical if any two models ...
Let's assume for the sake of argument a belief/ desire model of action explanation. Beliefs and desires combine to form intentions that lead to ...