Gradualism, bifurcation and fading qualia.
When reasoning about dependence relations, philosophers often rely on gradualist assumptions, according to which abrupt changes in a phenomenon of interest can result only from abrupt changes in the low-level phenomena on which it depends. These assumptions, while strictly correct if the dependence...
| Publicado en: | Analysis Vol. 84; no. 2; pp. 301 - 311 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2024
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