Reflective Equilibrium and the Principles of Logical Analysis

Peregrin, Jaroslav; Svoboda, Vladimír

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“…We cannot hope to have some direct privileged access to the truths of validity any Footnote 3 continued propositions could equally be explained in terms of their truth-conditions or their inferential relationship to other propositions. 4 Other prominent supporters of logical abductivism include Peregrin and Svoboda (2017), Russell (2014Russell ( , 2015 and Williamson (2017). more than we can to the truths of the natural sciences.…”

Section: The State Of Playmentioning

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Identifying logical evidence

Martin

2020

Synthese

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Given the plethora of competing logical theories of validity available, it’s understandable that there has been a marked increase in interest in logical epistemology within the literature. If we are to choose between these logical theories, we require a good understanding of the suitable criteria we ought to judge according to. However, so far there’s been a lack of appreciation of how logical practice could support an epistemology of logic. This paper aims to correct that error, by arguing for a practice-based approach to logical epistemology. By looking at the types of evidence logicians actually appeal to in attempting to support their theories, we can provide a more detailed and realistic picture of logical epistemology. To demonstrate the fruitfulness of a practice-based approach, we look to a particular case of logical argumentation—the dialetheist’s arguments based upon the self-referential paradoxes—and show that the evidence appealed to support a particular theory of logical epistemology, logical abductivism.

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Section: The State Of Playmentioning

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Identifying logical evidence

Martin

2020

Synthese

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“…the logical terminology, or the natural language analogues of the logical constants. On some versions of this view, logics are models of certain aspects of natural language, and they abstract away from many other aspects (Shapiro, 2014(Shapiro, , 2006Cook, 2010;Peregrin and Svoboda, 2017). 5 Let's look at two versions of the semantic conception of logic.…”

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“…Dominant versions of this conception hold that logical consequence is a way to spell out or capture some aspect of the correct use (and hence meaning) of logical vocabulary, i.e., the logical terminology, or the natural language analogues of the logical constants. On some versions of this view, logics are models of certain aspects of natural language, and they abstract away from many other aspects (S. Shapiro, 2014Shapiro, , 2006Cook, 2010;Peregrin & Svoboda, 2017). 5 Let's look at two versions of the semantic conception of logic.…”

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Limits of Abductivism About Logic

Hlobil

2020

Philos Phenomenol Research

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I argue against abductivism about logic, which is the view that rational theory choice in logic happens by abduction. Abduction cannot serve as a neutral arbiter in many foundational disputes in logic. For we must identify the relevant data in order to use abduction. Which data one deems relevant depends on what I call one's conception of logic. One's conception of logic is, however, not independent of one's views regarding many of the foundational disputes that one may hope to solve by abductivism.

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“…If the purpose of the formalization is to evaluate the logical validity of arguments presented in some text (rather than a purely linguistic study of the text), the task includes interpretive and exegetical aspects. Indeed, authors have emphasized the creative aspects of formalization, some going so far as claiming that there is no hidden logical form that is exposed by formalization (Brun 2014;Peregrin and Svoboda 2017).…”

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Logic in Natural Language: Commitments and Constraints

Sagi

2020

Disputatio

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In his new book, Logical Form, Andrea Iacona distinguishes between two different roles that have been ascribed to the notion of logical form: the logical role and the semantic role. These two roles entail a bifurcation of the notion of logical form. Both notions of logical form, according to Iacona, are descriptive, having to do with different features of natural language sentences. I agree that the notion of logical form bifurcates, but not that the logical role is merely descriptive. In this paper, I focus on formalization, a process by which logical form, on its logical role, is attributed to natural language sentences. According to some, formalization is a form of explication, and it involves normative, pragmatic, as well as creative aspects. I present a view by which formalization involves explicit commitments on behalf of a reasoner or an interpreter, which serve the normative grounds for the evaluation of a given text. In previous work, I proposed the framework of semantic constraints for the explication of logical consequence. Here, I extend the framework to include formalization constraints. The various constraints then serve the role of commitments. I discuss specific issues raised by Iacona concerning univocality, co-reference and equivocation, and I show how our views on these matters diverge as a result of our different starting assumptions.

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Reflective Equilibrium and the Principles of Logical Analysis

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Identifying logical evidence

Identifying logical evidence

Limits of Abductivism About Logic

Logic in Natural Language: Commitments and Constraints

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