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    • Foundations of Deduction's Pedigree: A Non-Inferential Account 

      Seitz, Jeremy (University of Waterloo, 2010-01-05)
      In this thesis I discuss the problems associated with the epistemological task of arriving at basic logical knowledge. This is knowledge that the primitive rules of inference we use in deductive reasoning are correct. ...
    • A Hybrid Theory of Evidence 

      Michaud, Janet (University of Waterloo, 2013-10-28)
      In the literature on doxastic evidence, the phenomenon is regarded as either internal (Plantinga 1993, Feldman and Conee 2001, Turri 2009) or external (Armstrong 1973, Collins 1997, BonJour 2008). Though the specifics of ...
    • THE PHILOSOPHICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF QUINE'S D-THESIS 

      Munro, Bradley (University of Waterloo, 2016-02-02)
      The philosophical significance of Quine's D-thesis is considered. The D-thesis - "Any statement can be held true come what may, if we make drastic enough adjustments elsewhere in the system? (W.V.0. Quine, From a Logical ...
    • Reasonable Assertions: On Norms of Assertion and Why You Don't Need to Know What You're Talking About 

      McKinnon, Rachel (University of Waterloo, 2012-04-17)
      There’s a widespread conviction in the norms of assertion literature that an agent’s asserting something false merits criticism. As Williamson puts it, asserting something false is likened to cheating at the game of ...
    • Skeptics and Unruly Connectives: A Defence of and Amendment to the Non-Factualist Justification of Logic 

      Oxton, Oliver (University of Waterloo, 2018-10-04)
      This thesis attempts to positively solve three problems in the foundations of logic. If logical connectives are defined by their introduction and elimination rules, then how might one prohibit the construction of dysfunctional ...

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