• 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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  • 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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  • legal theory Underdeterminacy (law) Indeterminacy of translation Referential indeterminacy Indeterminacy (philosophy) Indeterminism, the belief that not...
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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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  • Analytic philosophy is a broad, contemporary movement or tradition within Western philosophy and especially anglophone philosophy, focused on analysis...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • biology and especially botany Indeterminacy (philosophy), describing the shortcomings of definition in philosophy Indeterminacy (music), music for which the...
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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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  • infinite Buddhahood Buddha-nature Chaos (mythology) Eternal Buddha Henosis Indeterminacy Intrinsic value Monad—Monism—The One Non-absolutism Pantheism—Cosmos...
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  • Niiniluoto Immunology Implications of nanotechnology Imre Lakatos Indeterminacy (philosophy) Individual Inductive reasoning Inductivism Infinite regress Information...
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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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  • 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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  • Quine's work on indeterminacy of translation, stemming from the basic forms of indeterminacy, is widely discussed in modern analytic philosophy: W. V. O. Quine's...
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    human mind is born with knowledge Indeterminacy (philosophy) – describing the shortcomings of definition in philosophyPages displaying wikidata descriptions...
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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Disability", Ethics 125 (1), pp. 88–113. (2014) "Fundamental Indeterminacy", Analytic Philosophy 55 (4), pp. 339–62. (2013) "Metaphysically Indeterminate...
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    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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  • 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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    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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    indeterminacy of some mental processes (for instance, subjective perceptions of control in conscious volition) maps to the underlying indeterminacy of...
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    the failure was caused by something correctable. This psychological indeterminacy problem is also not unique to the theory of karma; it is found in every...
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  • Feigl Holism Hypothetico-deductive model Indeterminacy of translation Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy Isaiah Berlin J. L. Austin Jeff Malpas Jerry...
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