Research Articles, XVII, 3

Miguel López ASTORGA ABSTRACT: There is a debate over the acceptance or rejection of the conjunction thesis. That debate is linked to the concept of truthmaker. The aim of this paper is not to enter that discussion or try to clarify the concept of truthmaker. The goal is just to address the thesis from Non-Axiomatic Logic. I will attempt to …

Carin ROBINSON ABSTRACT: This paper asks the following question: How is deduction non-ampliative? It answers with a conditional: If deduction is non-ampliative then its premises are non-informative. To establish the truth of this conditional, is the task of this paper. I argue that the non-ampliative nature of deduction entails the non-informative epistemic status of the sentences which are its premises. …

Feinan YE, Xia LI ABSTRACT: The gradability of know-how presents a persistent puzzle for theories of skill. While knowing that p is typically binary, knowing how to φ admits of degrees of excellence. Leading Intellectualist accounts (Pavese 2017; Zhang 2025) typically explicate this gradability in terms of representational resolution or default reliability in the actual world. This paper argues, however, …