• quantified modal logic, the Barcan formula and the converse Barcan formula (more accurately, schemata rather than formulas) (i) syntactically state principles...
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    logic and in so doing introduced the schema or principle known as the Barcan formula. (She would also introduce the now standard "box" operator for necessity...
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  • worlds. The formulas are named in honor of the medieval philosopher Jean Buridan by analogy with the Barcan formula and the converse Barcan formula introduced...
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    everything exists of necessity. Necessitism is associated with the Barcan formula: it is possible for something to have a property only if there is something...
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  • reducibility -- Axiomatic system -- Axiomatization -- Backward chaining -- Barcan formula -- Begging the question -- Begriffsschrift -- Belief -- Belief bias...
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  • x is A, but it can be true that no world has two x that are both A. Barcan formula Evaluation strategy De se Latitudinarianism (philosophy) Quantifier...
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  • relation. converse barcan formula A principle in modal logic suggesting that possibility precedes existence, the converse of the Barcan formula. conversion The...
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    ethics Peter Singer, applied ethics Ruth Barcan Marcus, philosopher and logician known for the Barcan formula Brent Barraclough, classical pianist Stanley...
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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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  • dicto. The distinction is based on a syntactic criterion similar to Barcan formula and enables differentiation between fictional entities such as Sherlock...
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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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  • 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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  • Princeton, NJ: Institute for Advanced Study. MR 3204653. Marcus, Ruth Barcan (January 1960). "Extensionality". Mind. 69 (273): 55–62. doi:10.1093/mind/LXIX...
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    concepts in Kripke's new theory of reference originated in the work of Ruth Barcan Marcus more than a decade earlier. Smith identified six significant ideas...
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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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  • com. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2018. Barcan, Ruth (2009). "Intuition and Reason in the New Age". In Howes, David (ed...
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    (Fitzwilliam) John Lucas (Corpus Christi) Donald M. MacKinnon (unknown) Ruth Barcan Marcus (Clare Hall) Moez Masoud (Fitzwilliam) Margaret Masterman (Lucy Cavendish)...
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  • Kirk Russian cosmism Russian formalism Russian philosophy Ruth Abbey Ruth Barcan Marcus Ruth Macklin Ruth Millikan Ruth Nanda Anshen Ryle's regress Ryosen...
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    Annual Gödel Lecture 2014 Julia F. Knight, Computable structure theory and formulas of special forms The Twenty-Fourth Annual Gödel Lecture 2013 Kit Fine,...
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