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    Ruth Barcan Marcus (/ˈbɑːrkən ˈmɑːrkəs/; born Ruth Charlotte Barcan; 2 August 1921 – 19 February 2012) was an American academic philosopher and logician...
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  • Ruth Marcus may refer to: Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921–2012), philosopher and logician Ruth Marcus (journalist) (born 1958), former opinion columnist for the...
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  • domains of possible worlds. The formulas were introduced as axioms by Ruth Barcan Marcus, in the first extensions of modal propositional logic to include quantification...
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    discipline. The APA's governance has included Robert Audi, Jaegwon Kim and Ruth Barcan Marcus. The association has three divisions: Pacific, Central, and Eastern...
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  • published it in 1971, although it was first derived by the logician Ruth Barcan Marcus in 1947, and later, in simplified form, by W. V. O. Quine in 1953...
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  • propositional functions", as he wrote in The Analysis of Matter. Ruth C. Barcan (later Ruth Barcan Marcus) developed the first axiomatic systems of quantified modal...
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  • John Stuart Mill defended a form of this view, and Saul Kripke and Ruth Barcan Marcus have both defended the application of direct reference theory to proper...
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  • Alexander Bain (UK, 1818–1903) Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (Israel, 1915–1975) Ruth Barcan Marcus (US, 1921–2012) Henk Barendregt (Netherlands, born 1947) Jon Barwise...
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  • alternative to Tarskian semantics. It has been primarily championed by Ruth Barcan Marcus, H. Leblanc, and J. Michael Dunn and Nuel Belnap. It is also called...
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  • Longuenesse (born 1950) Penelope Maddy (born 1950) Kate Manne (born 1983) Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921–2012)C O Noëlle McAfee (fl. 2014) Alison McIntyre (fl. 2014)...
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  • Klibansky, Tomonobu Imamichi, Giovanni Gentile, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Ruth Barcan Marcus. The institute was founded in 1937 by representatives of the Sorbonne...
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  • against descriptivist theories of reference, building on the work of Ruth Barcan Marcus. At the time of Kripke's lectures, the dominant theory of reference...
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  • including Barry Smith, Willard Van Orman Quine, David Armstrong, Ruth Barcan Marcus, and René Thom, then sent a letter to Cambridge claiming that Derrida's...
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    philosophers including Barry Smith, W. V. O. Quine, David Armstrong, Ruth Barcan Marcus, René Thom, and twelve others, published a letter of protestation...
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  • language, Naming and Necessity is among the most important works ever." Ruth Barcan Marcus also challenged descriptivism. So did Keith Donnellan. Hilary Putnam...
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  • commonly referred to as substitutional quantification) was advocated by Ruth Barcan Marcus for modal logics in the early 1960s and later championed by J. Michael...
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  • 1970s and 1980s by philosophers such as Keith Donnellan, Saul Kripke, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan. In the wake of these attacks on...
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  • retirement in 1977. His doctoral students include Alan Ross Anderson, Ruth Barcan Marcus, and William W. Tait. Fitch was the inventor of the Fitch-style calculus...
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  • (1893–1976)[a] Gabriel Marcel (1887–1973)[a][b][c][d][e] Marcion (110–160)[b] Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921–2012)[a][b][c] Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)[a][c][d][e] Joseph...
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  • Jean Buridan by analogy with the Barcan formula and the converse Barcan formula introduced as axioms by Ruth Barcan Marcus. The Buridan formula is: ◊ ∀ x...
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    that everything exists of necessity. Necessitism is associated with the Barcan formula: it is possible for something to have a property only if there is...
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  • the Mind" 1997 Alasdair MacIntyre "Dependent Rational Animals" 1999 Ruth Barcan Marcus (Withdrew/Cancelled) 2001 Arthur Danto "The Revolt Against Beauty"...
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  • Machinima Quantified modal logic, a modal logic originally developed by Ruth Barcan Marcus Qualified Manufacturer List, term used by the United States Department...
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  • Zedillo Ponce de León 2000 James G. Arthur Evelyn Boyd Granville Ruth Barcan Marcus Shelley E. Taylor 1999 Francis S. Collins William N. Fenton Allen...
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    the work of Ruth Barcan Marcus more than a decade earlier. Smith identified six significant ideas in the New Theory that he claimed Marcus had developed:...
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  • philosopher Dror Bar-Natan (born 1966), knot theory and homology theory Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921–2012), logician Grigory Barenblatt (1927–2018), mathematician...
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  • "highest honor for service to the profession." Previous winners include Ruth Barcan Marcus, J.B. Schneewind, Anita Silvers, Ernest Sosa, Karen Hanson, Judith...
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  • at all, because senses only offer contingent facts about things. Ruth Barcan Marcus advanced a theory of direct reference for proper names at a symposium...
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  • true are a priori. But in the end of the sixties Saul Kripke and Ruth Barcan Marcus offered proof for the necessary truth of identity statements. Here...
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  • Yale University in 1982 under the supervision of Robert Fogelin and Ruth Barcan Marcus, and taught for many years at Dartmouth College, before moving to...
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