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Cognitive Metaphysics by Decock, Lieven

“…In recent years philosophers have been interested in the methodology of metaphysics. Most of these developments are related to formal work in logic or physics,…”
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Qualia Compression by Decock, Lieven, Douven, Igor

“…Color qualia inversion scenarios have played a key role in various philosophical debates. Most notably perhaps, they have figured in skeptical arguments for…”
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Conceptual change and conceptual engineering: the case of colour concepts by Decock, Lieven

“…I analyse conceptual change and conceptual engineering in the special case of colour concepts. The case raises the prospects of conceptual engineering because…”
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What Is Graded Membership? by Decock, Lieven, Douven, Igor

“…It has seemed natural to model phenomena related to vagueness in terms of graded membership. However, so far no satisfactory answer has been given to the…”
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Quine's Ideological Debacle by Lieven Decock

“…In two papers in the mid-seventies, Quine has discussed an ontological deba-cle, the reduction of ontology to an ontology of pure sets only. This debacle,…”
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What Verities May Be by Douven, Igor, Decock, Lieven

“…Edgington has proposed a solution to the sorites paradox in terms of 'verities', which she defines as degrees of closeness to clear truth. Central to her…”
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Quine’s “Strictly Vegetarian” Analyticity by Decock, Lieven

“…I analyze Quine’s later writings on analyticity from a linguistic point of view. In Word and Object Quine made room for a “strictly vegetarian” notion of…”
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Measuring Graded Membership: The Case of Color by Douven, Igor, Wenmackers, Sylvia, Jraissati, Yasmina, Decock, Lieven

“…This paper considers Kamp and Partee's account of graded membership within a conceptual spaces framework and puts the account to the test in the domain of…”
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Similarity After Goodman by Decock, Lieven, Douven, Igor

“…In a famous critique, Goodman dismissed similarity as a slippery and both philosophically and scientifically useless notion. We revisit his critique in the…”
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Vagueness: A Conceptual Spaces Approach by Douven, Igor, Decock, Lieven, Dietz, Richard, Égré, Paul

“…The conceptual spaces approach has recently emerged as a novel account of concepts. Its guiding idea is that concepts can be represented geometrically, by…”
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A geometric principle of indifference by Decock, Lieven, Douven, Igor, Sznajder, Marta

“…That one's degrees of belief at any one time obey the axioms of probability theory is widely regarded as a necessary condition for static rationality. Many…”
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The Conceptual Basis of Numerical Abilities: One-to-One Correspondence Versus the Successor Relation by Decock, Lieven

“…In recent years, neologicists have demonstrated that Hume's principle, based on the one-to-one correspondence relation, suffices to construct the natural…”
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Identity and similarity by Douven, Igor, Decock, Lieven

“…The standard approach to the so-called paradoxes of identity has been to argue that these paradoxes do not essentially concern the notion of identity but…”
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QUINE'S ANTIMENTALISM IN LINGUISTICS by DECOCK, LIEVEN

“…Quine's rejection of meanings was originally based on extensionalist motives in the philosophy of logic. In Word and Object, behaviorism in linguistics paves…”
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Putnam’s Internal Realism: A Radical Restatement by Decock, Lieven, Douven, Igor

“…Putnam’s internal realism is aimed at reconciling realist and antirealist intuitions about truth and the nature of reality. A common complaint about internal…”
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ARTEFACTS AND CATEGORIES by DECOCK, LIEVEN

“…This article analyzes the relation between artefacts and categories within the embodied cognition paradigm. An evolutionary account of human cognition, in…”
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A physicalist reinterpretion of ‘phenomenal’ spaces by Decock, Lieven

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Knowledge and Approximate Knowledge by Decock, Lieven, Douven, Igor, Kelp, Christoph, Wenmackers, Sylvia

“…Traditionally, epistemologists have held that only truth-related factors matter in the question of whether a subject can be said to know a proposition. Various…”
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Constraints on Colour Category Formation by Jraissati, Yasmina, Wakui, Elley, Decock, Lieven, Douven, Igor

“…This article addresses two questions related to colour categorization, to wit, the question what a colour category is, and the question how we identify colour…”
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A LAKATOSIAN APPROACH TO THE QUINE-MADDY DEBATE by DECOCK, LIEVEN

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