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pseudo-problems
noun
Plural of pseudo-problem
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Schlick presented his latest conception of grammar as well as its application to philosophical pseudo-problems in his 1936 essay on "Meaning and Verification" (Schlick 1979b, 456 481).
Roughly, if synthetic statements failed testability in principle they were considered to be cognitively meaningless and to give rise only to pseudo-problems.
And his endorsement of grammatical conventionalism was specifically intended to accommodate choices between languages which differed radically, as demonstrated in his treatment of philosophical pseudo-problems (Oberdan 1996, Sec. 3).
He acknowledges that the concept of a literary work forms part of ordinary language and is useful in theoretically undemanding contexts, but he also argues that it is a self-contradictory construct that creates many pseudo-problems for literary theory.
Thus the main import of the later 'Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology' is the dismissal of ontological worries as pseudo-problems by dint of the (highly contentious) distinction between 'internal' questions, to be settled by the rules of the framework of mathematics, ordinary 'thing' talk or whatever and 'external' questions such as 'which framework to adopt?'.
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Through several pseudo problems, it was confirmed that the developed system could reasonably perform source term assessment essential to achieve an advanced fuel cycle by utilizing several functional modules sequentially.
This paper exposes the problem as a pseudo-problem.
The "two problems of the 'unfathomable' thing and the equally 'unexplorable' ego" are disposed of as pseudo problems.
One could try to unmask it as a pseudo-problem.
Many realists think that the Representation Problem is just a pseudo-problem.
So the 'metaphysical' problem of how our terms get their reference fixed is just a pseudo-problem.
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