Hinge epistemology is sometimes thought to have controversial relativist and non-evidentialist commitments. This paper develops and motivates an explicitly
Dante, in his book, De Monarchia on monarchy, saw Aristotle as giving credence to the idea of a universal monarchy under the leadership of a Christian prince. But Hobbes saw Aristotle quite differently. Bor Hobbes, Aristotle taught the dangerous doctrine of republican government, that was seen ...
Two weeks later, the mercenaries find themselves marching through the warzone in Charlesia. They encounter a weak old man who is asking to be evacuated. Doing so would distract significant resources from the mercenaries’ military mission. The mercenaries and their equipment are very expensive. So...
Say I’m looking at a petri dish with, as I count them, 5 nematodes in it. It is true that there will always be an inductive gap that exists here: a gap between (a) my looking at the dish and thinking I have some strong evidence using my eyes and my counting ability for thinking...
She recognizes herself (Ledwig 2009, 168) that "[d]iachronic inconsistency is […] a very weak form of inconsistency or even no inconsistency in the strict sense". On laziness in description see Rorty (2010, 429–432), where what first looks like a case of ambivalence is shown not to...
painted in bright red. 15 The men had belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads. All of them looked like Babylonian officers who were born in Babylon. 16 She fell in love with them at first sight and sent messengers to them in Babylonia. 17 So these men came from ...
First, Socrates considered whether such thinkers came to give thought to such things upon believing themselves to see the human things sufficiently, or whether they were “roused from the human things to consider the divine things (ta daimonia) as leading them to what is fitting to do.” The...
Today, in a case concerning the clubbing of various FIRs that had been filed against YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia for recounting a crass joke on his channel, Supreme Court Justice Surya Kant lashed out at Allahabadia for being a “pervert” and having a “dirty mind,” and expressed a view...
, Western Washington University: a fortiori argument, argument, consequentia mirabilis, equipollence, equivalence, Euler diagram, principle of bivalence, principle of contradiction, principle of excluded middle, Venn diagram Philip L. Quinn (P.L.Q.), University of Notre Dame: divine command ethics...