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| Title: |
Logic as instrument: the millian view on the role of logic |
| Author: |
Akiba, Ken |
| Appeared in: |
History and philosophy of logic |
| Paging: | Volume 17 (1996) nr. 1-2 pages 73-83 |
| Year: |
1996 |
| Contents: |
I interpret Mill's view on logic as the instrumentalist view that logical inferences, complex statements, and logical operators are not necessary for reasoning itself, but are useful only for our remembering and communicating the results of the reasoning. To defend this view, I first show that we can transform all the complex statements in the language of classical first-order logic into what I call material inference rules and reduce logical inferences to inferences which involve only atomic statements and the material inference rules. Then I explain why we introduce logical operators and logical inference rules into a system of the latter kind. In the end I determine what kind of negation is justified from this point of view |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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