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Treatise on Basic Philosophy. Vol. I Semantics, Sense and Reference. Vol. II Semantics, Interpretation and Truth. By Mario Bunge, Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co. 1974. Vol. I pp xn, 185; Vol. II pp XII, 210

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

Bernard Linsky
Bernard Linsky
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University of Alberta
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , June 1981 , pp. 384 - 391
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NOTES

1 References to the Treatise are by volume and page.

2 Alethically independent sentences of value ¾ have vertical distance of ½. If their value is ⅓, the distance is 1/49 (The definition of alethic independence (8.6) is incorrect. It should say that p and q are independent iff (?q/p) = ?(q). Then it will be true that for such p and q, ?(p & q) = ?(p) · ?(q).)

3 Popper's notion of “versimilitude” is motivated very differently. See Conjectures and Refutations, Routledge and Kegan Paul (London, 1963) pp. 228-237. See also Miller, D. “On distance from the truth” in Essays on Mathematical and Philosophical Logic, ed. Hintikkaet, J.. al. Reidel, D.(Dordrecht 1979)pp. 415–435.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 For example Putnam, Hilary in “The Refutation of Conventionalism” and “Explanation and Reference” in Mind Language and Reality: Philosophical Papers Vol. II, C.V.P. (Cambridge, 1975) pp. 153–214.CrossRefGoogle Scholar