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CHISHOLM’S OBSESSION (pages 425-453)

Arnold CUSMARIU ABSTRACT: The characterization problem of mathematical logic yields Chisholm’s “particularist” criterion, while the decision problem yields his “methodist” criterion. These connections have not been on anyone’s radar screen. To answer the “so what?” requirement in philosophy since Plato, which the criterion-problem literature has failed to do, the article states the problem in argument form and shows that it …

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