Moderate anti-exceptionalism and earthborn logic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03182-9" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03182-9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03182-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11229-021-03182-9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Moderate anti-exceptionalism and earthborn logic

Original language description

In this paper we put forward and defend a view of the nature of logic that we call moderate anti-exceptionalism. In the first part of the paper we focus on the problem of genuine logical validity and consequence. We make use of examples from current debates to show that attempts to pinpoint the one and only authentic logic inevitably either yield irrefutable (and hence methodologically idle) theories or lead to dead ends. We then outline a thoroughly naturalist account of logical consequence as grounded in rules implicit in human linguistic practices (and thus immune to Quinean criticism of basing logic on explicit conventions). We insist that there are only two existing kinds of language: natural languages, and artificial languages that have been forged by us. There is thus no room for a “genuine” language (independent of us) and hence for “genuine” logic. We conclude that though logical theories are established - and are liable to criticism - in a similar fashion as those of the sciences, and in this sense logic is not exceptional, to fulfill its mission logic must lay a claim to normative authority over our argumentation and reasoning, which makes its methodology somewhat special. Logical theory is not meant to provide just an explanation, the standards it establishes serve also as a tool, providing for a reinforcement of our rational communication.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-18675S" target="_blank" >GA20-18675S: Tha nature of logical forms and modern logic</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Synthese

ISSN

0039-7857

e-ISSN

1573-0964

Volume of the periodical

199

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3/4

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

8781-8806

UT code for WoS article

000658619000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85107633787