Characterizing and Classifying

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The Monist 77 (3):315-328 (1994)
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Abstract

Regimentation of an intuitively plausible distinction enhances understanding of that distinction. In Carnap’s words, it is an explication. Properly employed, it is, in the case to be considered, and in almost all others, an indispensable aid to good philosophizing.

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10.5840/monist199477311

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