Indeterminacy, in philosophy, can refer both to common scientific and mathematical concepts of uncertainty and their implications and to another kind of...
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legal theory Underdeterminacy (law) Indeterminacy of translation Referential indeterminacy Indeterminacy (philosophy) Indeterminism, the belief that not...
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The indeterminacy of translation is a thesis propounded by 20th-century American analytic philosopher W. V. Quine. The classic statement of this thesis...
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In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations...
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Niiniluoto Immunology Implications of nanotechnology Imre Lakatos Indeterminacy (philosophy) Individual Inductive reasoning Inductivism Infinite regress Information...
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biology and especially botany Indeterminacy (philosophy), describing the shortcomings of definition in philosophy Indeterminacy (music), music for which the...
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Analytic philosophy is a broad, contemporary movement or tradition within Western philosophy, especially anglophone philosophy, focused on analysis. Analytic...
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Bergson Ideal speech situation Illocutionary act Implicature Indeterminacy (philosophy) Indeterminacy of translation Indexicality Indirect self-reference Inferential...
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Quantum indeterminacy is the apparent necessary incompleteness in the description of a physical system, that has become one of the characteristics of...
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Proposition (redirect from Proposition (philosophy))
removed from philosophy and semantics. W. V. Quine, who granted the existence of sets in mathematics, maintained that the indeterminacy of translation...
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The indeterminacy debate in legal theory can be summed up as follows: Can the law constrain the results reached by adjudicators in legal disputes? Some...
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significance in the philosophy of science, since it does not cast doubt uniquely on conjectured unobservables. Indeterminacy (philosophy) Poverty of the stimulus...
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Inscrutability of reference (redirect from Indeterminacy of reference)
The inscrutability or indeterminacy of reference (also referential inscrutability) is a thesis by 20th century analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman...
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philosophically derived in part from the works of Hume, between determinism and indeterminacy. Structure and agency forms an enduring core debate in sociology. Essentially...
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Buddhist philosophy. Philosophy portal Absolute idealism Absolute infinite Buddhahood Buddha-nature Chaos (mythology) Eternal Buddha Henosis Indeterminacy Intrinsic...
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Qualia (category Concepts in the philosophy of mind)
human mind is born with knowledge Indeterminacy (philosophy) – describing the shortcomings of definition in philosophyPages displaying wikidata descriptions...
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Philosophy of law is a branch of philosophy that examines the nature of law and law's relationship to other systems of norms, especially ethics and political...
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Determinism (redirect from Determinism (philosophy))
determinism is the idea, because of quantum decoherence, that quantum indeterminacy can be ignored for most macroscopic events. Random quantum events "average...
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Uncertainty principle (redirect from Principle of indeterminacy)
The uncertainty principle, also known as Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle, is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics. It states that there is...
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Predication is also used to explain the indeterminacy of mass terms. When mass terms are treated as predicates, indeterminacy is demonstrated when the terms are...
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Holophrastic indeterminacy, or indeterminacy of sentence translation, is one of two kinds of indeterminacy of translation to appear in the writings of...
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Mind–body dualism (redirect from Dualism (philosophy))
and John Eccles and physicist Henry Stapp have theorized that such indeterminacy may apply at the macroscopic scale. However, Max Tegmark has argued...
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theory of the indeterminacy of translation. Saul Kripke, a student of Quine's at Harvard, has profoundly influenced analytic philosophy. Kripke was ranked...
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Karl Popper (redirect from Criticism of Karl Popper's philosophy)
Compton Memorial Lecture in 1965, Popper revisited the idea of quantum indeterminacy as a source of human freedom. Eccles had suggested that "critically...
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Pharmakon (redirect from Pharmakon (philosophy))
connection between its traditional meanings and the philosophical notion of indeterminacy. "[T]ranslational or philosophical efforts to favor or purge a particular...
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Free will (redirect from Freedom (philosophy))
decision making. It suggests that the indeterminacy of agent volition processes could map to the indeterminacy of certain physical events – and the outcomes...
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Intuitionism (redirect from Intuitionism (philosophy of mathematics))
In the philosophy of mathematics, intuitionism, or neointuitionism (opposed to preintuitionism), is an approach where mathematics is considered to be purely...
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automaton Nondeterministic Turing machine Indeterminacy in computation Indeterminism (philosophy) Indeterminacy (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
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common objection to premise one appeals to the phenomenon of quantum indeterminacy, where, at the subatomic level, the causal principle ("everything that...
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Libertarianism (metaphysics) (redirect from Libertarianism (philosophy))
indeterminacy of some mental processes (for instance, subjective perceptions of control in conscious volition) maps to the underlying indeterminacy of...
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