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The Function is Unsaturated
An investigation of what Frege means by his doctrine that functions (and so concepts) are 'unsaturated'. We argue that this doctrine is far less peculiar than it is usually taken to be. What makes it hard to understand, oddly enough, is the fact that it is so deeply embedded in our contemporary understanding of logic and language. To see this, we look at how it emerges out of Frege's confrontation with the Booleans and how it expresses a fundamental difference between Frege's approach to logic and theirs
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The Birth of Semantics
We attempt here to trace the evolution of Frege’s thought about truth. What most frames the way we approach the problem is a recognition that hardly any of Frege’s most familiar claims about truth appear in his earliest work. We argue that Frege’s mature views about truth emerge from a fundamental re-thinking of the nature of logic instigated, in large part, by a sustained engagement with the work of George Boole and his followers, after the publication of Begriffsschrift and the appearance of critical reviews by members of the Boolean school
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Texas Business Review, August 1967
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Similarity of percolation thresholds on the hcp and fcc lattices
Extensive Monte-Carlo simulations were performed in order to determine the
precise values of the critical thresholds for site () and bond ()
percolation on the hcp lattice to compare with previous precise measuremens on
the fcc lattice. Also, exact enumeration of the hcp and fcc lattices was
performed and yielded generating functions and series for the zeroth, first,
and second moments of both lattices. When these series and the values of
are compared to those for the fcc lattice, it is apparent that the site
percolation thresholds are different; however, the bond percolation thresholds
are equal within error bars, and the series only differ slightly in the higher
order terms, suggesting the actual values are very close to each other, if not
identical.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to J. Stat. Phy
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