Philosophers oftenoperate with amisleading caricature ofscientific statements in terms ofpropositions from first-order logic with primitive, qualitative predi- cates, such as ‘For all x, ifRx then Bx’, where R and B are to be understood as, for example,...
Philosophy of Physical Magnitudes
Philosophers oftenoperate with amisleading caricature ofscientific statements in terms ofpropositions from first-order logic with primitive, qualitative predi-cates, such as ‘For all x, ifRx then Bx’, where R and B are to be understood as, for example, ‘being...