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2024-2 Feminist Ethics While reading Spelman’s article, I was wondering whether the aim of the paper is to explain society (particularly the household) using the concept of Homo reparans, or to criticize this very notion. According to Spelman, “there is a powerful and fascinating case for regarding Homo sapiens as Homo reparans” in the sense that objects (including ourselves) and relationships a..

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2024-2 Frege and Russell Midterm Exam#4)(A) In “On Sense and Reference,” Frege wrote:Equality gives rise to challenging questions which are not altogether easy to answer. Is it a relation? A relation between objects, or between names or signs of objects? In my Begriffsshrift I assumed the latter. The reasons which seem to favour this are the following: a = a and a = b are obviously statements of..

2024-2 Frege and Russell Midterm Exam#3)(A) It is widely known that Russell’s paradox of classes had fatal consequences for naive set theory. Suppose {z: z ∉ z}, i.e., the set of all objects that are not members of themselves, exists. We then immediately encounter a contradiction, as follows:Call this set A, and ask “is A a member of itself?” If A ∉ A, then A meets the entrance requirement for A..

2024-2 Frege and Russell Midterm Exam#2) Explain why so many interpreters have held that Frege’s formal work breaches the distinction between term and wff. Find passage(s) in “On Sense and Reference” that suggest that Frege held that a declarative sentence names a truth-value. Explain how one can save Frege from this breach by interpreting his view as introducing characteristic functions for pro..

2024-2 Frege and Russell Midterm Exam#1) What is special about those functions that Frege calls concepts. Explain the role of truth-values, the True and the False in Frege notion of a concept. Explain how it is that concepts can play the role of what mathematicians nowadays call “characteristic functions.” Could Frege identify the True with, say 0 and identify the False with 1? Would this be met..

2024-2 Feminist Ethics On the Black-White Binary Paradigm and Misclassification This reading response consists of questions and a brief sketch of thoughts rather than a critique of Alcoff’s paper. I believe that her analysis of the black-white binary paradigm enables us to comprehend the problem of the narrow scope through which Latinos and Asian Americans in the United States have been misclass..