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From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
Criticism: weakness of isa relation on the idea category; isa is not used in a context-independent manner
The most serious form of this last worry centers on the semantics of the isa relation. The isa class subsumption relation is often presumed to hold in a context-general way and capture “purely ontological” relations; if it is true that “A isa B”, then any A in any context…
The Experimental Philosophy Page
Experimental philosophy (x-phi)
Welcome to the experimental philosophy page. Experimental philosophy, called x-phi for short, is a new philosophical movement that supplements the traditional tools of analytic philosophy with the scientific methods of cognitive science. So experimental philosophers actually go…