Barriers to entailment : Hume's law and other limits on logical consequence / Gillian K. Russell.
A barrier to entailment exists if you can't get conclusions of a certain kind from premises of another. One of the most famous barriers in philosophy is Hume's Law, which says that you can't get normative conclusions from descriptive premises, or in slogan form. You can't get an...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I: Getting started. Survey of counterexamples
- Universality
- Time
- General barrier theorems Modality
- II: Getting complex. Can, should, will
- Context-sensitivity
- Normativity
- All the barriers
- III: Getting informal. Informal models, informal logic
- Informal barriers.