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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
191

Carnap and Quine on Analyticity

Moosavi Karimi, Seyed Masoud 01 May 2012 (has links)
This dissertation examines the Carnap-Quine debate on analyticity with the objective of identifying exactly what is at stake. Close scrutiny of Quine’s criticism of the definitions of analyticity reveals that most of his objections are convincing only if they are considered in relation to the definitions of analyticity in natural language. Carnap, however, defines analyticity in artificial languages. The dissertation also shows that Carnap can meet the objections to his definitions by using a perspective based within his own philosophy. After examining the presumptions of each party to the debate, the dissertation concludes that the disagreement between Carnap and Quine on the notion of analyticity is rooted in their different approaches to empiricism and that there is nothing said by either philosopher which proves that one approach has ultimate advantages over the other. It is thus impossible to identify a winner in the Carnap-Quine debate on analyticity. The process of arriving at this conclusion starts with a discussion in the first three chapters of Carnap’s philosophy followed by a critical and detailed discussion of his syntactical and semantical definitions of analyticity and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Chapter Four examines Quine’s objections to Carnap’s definitions of essential predication and shows that his objections do not undermine Carnap’s definitions of this notion in artificial languages. It also shows how vital providing a proper definition of essential predication in natural language is for Carnap’s philosophy and examines whether or not he is able to do so. Chapter Five analyzes Quine’s objections to Carnap’s definitions of logical truth and demonstrates that Carnap is able to respond to all of them when the discussion is situated within his philosophical system. Again, Quine’s objections to definitions of logical truth are meaningful only if they are considered in relation to natural language, which is not Carnap’s concern. The dissertation concludes by showing that both Carnap and Quine arrived at their conclusions with respect to the nature of logical sentences, based not on the arguments in their debate on analyticity, but on their philosophical considerations regarding the principle of empiricism: for Carnap, logical sentences are out of the realm of knowledge and independent of matters of fact whereas, for Quine, these are as empirical as other sentences. Nothing either says in their debate can convince the other to accept a different viewpoint.
192

Micro-/nanofabrication in analytical chemistry and temperature dependent studies of underpotential deposition of Mercury(II) on AU(111)

Zhang, Lunsheng, January 2007 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references.
193

Gravimetric analysis of solvent removal from thin polymer films

Boucif, Mustapha Nasr-eddine. January 1983 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, June, 1983. / Title from PDF t.p.
194

The development of methods assaying organic iodine compounds in human serum.

Maerschel, Richard John. January 1972 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.Sc.1974) from the Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Adelaide.
195

Development of a genetic algorithm-correlation analysis (GA/CA) program for classification of chemical compounds using mass spectral data /

Li, Fang. Owens, Kevin G. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drexel University, 2008. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 233).
196

Multivariate calibration models and their implementation /

Lorber, Avraham Yitzhak, January 1990 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1990. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [158]-163).
197

Spectroscopic investigations of acrylodan dye interactions with poly(amidoamine) and poly(propyleneimine) dendrimers

Rippey, Julie M. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed July 13, 2009). Includes bibliographical references.
198

Vapor phase combustion

Karsten, Andrew, January 1922 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio state University, 1922. / Autobiography.
199

A study of factors influencing the quantitative determination of sulfate as barium sulfate

Thompson, Will Scroggs, January 1934 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1934. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 45-46.
200

Analytic functions in the polydisc

Hoffmann, Laurence D., January 1970 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.

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