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And Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics (1956), can be seen as recommending a noncognitivist approach to logical and mathematical statements, according to which they do not record truths of some special kind but rather express rules which regulate the use of more ordinary or empirical statements.
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On the other hand, Longino's statement according to which scientific activities can be evaluated with respect to both goals, knowledge extension as well as finding truth [13].
(13) La afirmación según la cual el nacionalismo y la sociedad vascos son sumamente tradicionalistas… (A, 1) (The statement according to which basque nacionalism and society are extremely tradicionalist…).
As a matter of fact, this tendency was observed in the expert corpus, since many of the verbal processes are grammaticalized as complex noun groups: (13) La afirmación según la cual el nacionalismo y la sociedad vascos son sumamente tradicionalistas… (A, 1) (The statement according to which basque nacionalism and society are extremely tradicionalist…).
If the antirealist goes so far as to deny that the requisite conditions are ever met, his position amounts to an "error theory," according to which statements of the problematic kind are systematically false.
His doctrine of analogy, according to which statements about God are true analogically rather than univocally, was likewise inspired by Aristotle, as were his distinctions between act and potency, essence and existence, substance and accidents, and the active and passive intellect and his view of the soul as the "form" of the body.
Wittgenstein launched an attack on what has been called the picture theory of meaning, according to which statements may be judged true or false depending upon whether reality matches the picture represented by the belief.
To explain these findings, we propose a contextual competition at retrieval hypothesis, according to which incongruent statements become more strongly associated with their episodic context during encoding than do congruent statements.
A nice example is Geoffrey Hellman's modal nominalism, according to which mathematical statements committed to the existence of abstract objects are to be eliminated in favor of statements about the possible existence of concrete objects.
In 1946 he proposed as new axioms large cardinal axioms axioms of infinity that assert that there are very large levels of the hierarchy of types and he went so far as to entertain a generalized completeness theorem for such axioms, according to which all statements of set theory could be settled by such axioms (Gödel 1946, 151).
The former belief (i.e., that theological language was meaningless) was inspired by a tenet of logical positivism, according to which any statement that lacks empirical content is meaningless.
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