The explanatory indispensability argument is an argument in the philosophy of mathematics for the existence of mathematical objects. It claims that rationally...

The Quine–Putnam indispensability argument is an argument in the philosophy of mathematics for the existence of abstract mathematical objects such as numbers...

non-deductive arguments may rest on different or additional criteria than truth—for example, the persuasiveness of so-called "indispensability claims" in...

and the "explanatory turn" in the realism–anti-realism debate in which the indispensability argument was reframed in terms of the explanatory power of...

mathematics, Putnam and W. V. O. Quine developed the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument, an argument for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing...

not ontologically real objects. Stating that the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument is the chief support of platonism, Craig criticizes the neo-Quinean...

scientific inquiry is carried out in practice, and second, to provide an explanatory account of why scientific inquiry succeeds as well as it appears to do...

power and explanatory success as a research program for the investigation of the mind/brain. Such eliminativists have developed different arguments to show...

ways in which humans can use formal reasoning to produce logically valid arguments and true conclusions. Reasoning may be subdivided into forms of logical...

institutionalised beliefs about "truth" – it would be unwise to use "truth" as an explanatory resource. To do so would (according to the relativist view) include the...

take a future scientific paradigm shift or revolution to bridge the explanatory gap. Nagel posits that in the future a sort of "objective phenomenology"...

about the drawing of conclusions deductive, inductive, or hypothetically explanatory. Peirce's semiotics, in its classifications, its critical analysis of...

ISBN 978-1405191456. Mark Colyvan (2001). "§4.2 What is it to be indispensable?". The Indispensability of Mathematics. Oxford University Press. pp. 76 ff. ISBN 0198031440...

agree to meet in the Oval Office to discuss a truce, but during a heated argument, Doug confesses to Frank's murder. Frank was intending to murder Claire...

1999. Derivation by phase. Cambridge, MA: MIT. Chomsky, N. 2001. Beyond explanatory adequacy. Cambridge, MA: MIT. Katz, J., D. Pesetsky 2009. The identity...

Intelligent design (ID) is a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God, presented by its proponents as "an evidence-based scientific theory about...

below. A complicated theory of relations continued to strangle Russell's explanatory 1919 Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy and his 1927 second edition...

continue to make reference to the Hieronymous Wolf Commentary in their explanatory annotations. The Centiloquium 'one hundred (sayings)' was the common...

of; Office, Cabinet; Office, Foreign and Commonwealth; Treasury, HM. "Explanatory Notes to Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010". Archived from...

argument that is a logical fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. Studia humanitatis – humanistic studies deemed indispensable...

University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 320–339. Mark Colyvan (2001). The Indispensability of Mathematics. Oxford University Press. pp. 78–79. ISBN 0195166612...

allowed British officials to search a home without notice or reason. Otis's argument against the writs inspired Adams to the cause of the American colonies...

earth. According to R. T. France, the inclusion of Isaiah 7:14 was an explanatory addition to Matthew's birth narrative, albeit not the inspiration for...

issuing regular online Media Alerts, scrutinising media coverage, the arguments used, source selection, and the framing of events to highlight bias, omissions...

aspects of his view on intentionality, emphasizing the centrality and indispensability of the intentional stance to our conceptual scheme. Dennett was the...

critic of the French Communist Party (Parti communiste français, PCF). His arguments and theses were set against the threats that he saw attacking the theoretical...

emergency like the Great Depression. The court, however, dismissed this argument as erroneous and insisted that the only relevant issue was whether the...

different from it in style: the Poème embodies a more serious philosophical argument than Candide. The conclusion of the novel, in which Candide finally dismisses...

quarrels with them, as their owner, to whom they have made themselves indispensable usually lets them off scot free. On the southern frontier of the Sokoto...

from an aesthetic and an ethical point of view. The book is basically an argument about faith and marriage with a short discourse at the end telling them...