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Logical Pluralism And Vicious Regresses, Daniel Boyd
Logical Pluralism And Vicious Regresses, Daniel Boyd
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This material in this dissertation will be divided into two parts. The first part is a preliminary discussion of vicious regress arguments in the philosophy of logic in the 20th century. The second part will focus on three different versions of logical pluralism, i.e., the view that there are many correct logics. In each case an argument will be developed to show that these versions of logical pluralism result in a vicious regress.
The material in part one will be divided into three chapters, and there are a few reasons for having a preliminary discussion of vicious regress arguments in …