Browsing by Author "Magnus, P.D."
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Epistemology and the Wikipedia
Magnus, P.D. (2006-08)Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that is written and edited entirely by visitors to its website. I argue that we are misled when we think of it in the same epistemic category with traditional general encyclopedias. An ... -
Fibs in the Wikipedia
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forall x, version 1.11
Magnus, P.D. (2006-01-24)In formal logic, sentences and arguments in English are translated into mathematical languages with well-defined properties. If all goes well, properties of the argument that were hard to discern become clearer. This book ... -
forall x, version 1.20
Magnus, P.D. (2006-07-10)In formal logic, sentences and arguments in English are translated into mathematical languages with well-defined properties. If all goes well, properties of the argument that were hard to discern become clearer. This book ... -
forall x, version 1.21
Magnus, P.D. (2007-01-13)In formal logic, sentences and arguments in English are translated into mathematical languages with well-defined properties. If all goes well, properties of the argument that were hard to discern become clearer. This book ... -
forall x, version 1.22
Magnus, P.D. (2007-03-31)In formal logic, sentences and arguments in English are translated into mathematical languages with well-defined properties. If all goes well, properties of the argument that were hard to discern become clearer. This book ... -
forall x, version 1.23
Magnus, P.D. (2007-05-12)In formal logic, sentences and arguments in English are translated into mathematical languages with well-defined properties. If all goes well, properties of the argument that were hard to discern become clearer. This book ... -
forall x, version 1.24
Magnus, P.D. (2008-01-09)This is a textbook covering translation, formal semantics, and proof theory for both sentential logic and quantified logic. Each chapter contains practice exercises; solutions to selected exercises appear in an appendix. -
forall x, version 1.27
Magnus, P.D. (2009-06-05)This is a textbook covering translation, formal semantics, and proof theory for both sentential logic and quantified logic. Each chapter contains practice exercises; solutions to selected exercises appear in an appendix. -
forall x, version 1.28
Magnus, P.D. (2010-05-20)This is a textbook covering translation, formal semantics, and proof theory for both sentential logic and quantified logic. Each chapter contains practice exercises; solutions to selected exercises appear in an appendix. -
forall x, version 1.29
Magnus, P.D. (2012-01-06)In formal logic, sentences and arguments in English are translated into mathematical languages with well-defined properties. If all goes well, properties of the argument that were hard to discern become clearer. This book ... -
Regarding scientific significance
Magnus, P.D. (2010-09-17)In Science, Truth, and Democracy, Philip Kitcher introduces significance graphs (structures that illustrate how and which questions are significant) and well ordered science (a norm defined by an imagined process of ideal ... -
Reliability on the Crowded Net: Finding the Truth in a Web of Deceit
Magnus, P.D. (MacHack: the Conference for Leading Edge Developers, 2001)On-line, just as off-line, there are ways of assessing the credibility of information sources. The Internet, although it arguably makes for nothing wholly new in this regard, complicates the ordinary task of assessing ... -
Underdetermination and the Claims of Science
Magnus, P.D. (2003-03)The underdetermination of theory by evidence is supposed to be a reason to rethink science. It is not. Many authors claim that underdetermination has momentous consequences for the status of scientific claims, but such ...