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Logical Laws

Entry “Logical Laws” The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge, 1998.

This is an introductory essay on the notion of a “Logical Law.” In it, I show that there are three important different questions one can ask about logical laws. Firstly, what it means to be a logical law. Secondly, what makes something a logical law, and thirdly, what are the logical laws. Each of these questions are answered differently by different people. I sketch the important differences in views, and point the way ahead for logical research.

Details

Author: Greg Restall
Status: Published in 1998

Local file: logiclaws.pdf (168KB)

Subjects: classical logic entailment

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I’m Greg Restall, and this is my website. I work in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. Email: greg at consequently.org; Post: School of of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia.

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Thought

The aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term.
— Wilfrid Sellars “Philosophy and the Scientfic Image of Man”.