One true logic : a monist manifesto /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Part I. Monism vs. Pluralism
- 1. Conceptions of Logical Consequence
- 1.1 Tarski on logical consequence
- 1.2 Accounts of logical consequence
- 1.3 Philonian consequence
- 1.4 The necessity of logic
- 1.5 The formality of logic
- 1.6 'The intuitive concept of consequence'
- 2. What Is Monism?
- 2.1 Defining monism-a first pass
- 2.1.1 A scheme
- 2.1.2 Admissible formalizations
- 2.1.3 Admissible logics
- 2.1.4 A true logic
- 2.1.5 The one true logic
- 2.2 Epistemics
- Appendix: the least true logic
- 3. Against Pluralism
- 3.1 Extensionally divergent formalizations
- 3.2 Horses for courses: languages and domains
- 3.2.1 Horses for courses: interlinguistic
- 3.2.2 Horses for courses: intralinguistic
- 3.3 Pluralism proper
- 3.3.1 Beall and Restall's modest pluralism
- 3.3.2 Shapiro's eclectic pluralism
- 3.4 Beall and Restall's modest pluralism
- 3.4.1 The 'settled core' of consequence
- 3.5 Shapiro's eclectic pluralism
- 3.5.1 SIA as a test case for pluralism
- 3.6 Metalogical reasoning
- 3.7 Logical nihilism
- 3.8 A problem for logical pluralism
- 3.8.1 All true logics
- 3.8.2 The single correct metalogic
- 3.8.3 Some arbitrary true logic
- 3.8.4 Each true logic
- 3.8.5 Summary
- 3.9 Two further issues
- 3.9.1 Non-deductive reasoning
- 3.9.2 A problem for monism?
- 3.10 Conclusion
- Appendix: metalogical meaning variance
- PART II. The logos hypothesis
- 4. The Lâ#x88;#x9E;Gâ#x88;#x9E;S Hypothesis
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Type and sort
- 4.3 The Lâ#x88;#x9E;Gâ#x88;#x9E;S Hypothesis
- 4.4 Back to origins
- 4.5 Top-down and bottom-up arguments
- 4.6 Pure FTTâ#x88;#x9E;â#x88;#x9E; defined
- 4.7 Semantics for pure FTTâ#x88;#x9E;â#x88;#x9E;
- 4.8 What are the formulas of pure FTTâ#x88;#x9E;â#x88;#x9E;?
- 5. Beyond the Finitary
- 5.1 Generalized quantifiers
- 5.2 The concurrence argument for FOL
- 5.3 Beyond FOL: 'there are infinitely many'
- 5.3.1 The finitude objection
- 5.3.2 The mathematical validity objection
- 5.3.3 The finite-description objection
- 5.3.4 The indeterminacy objection
- 5.3.5 Diagnosis
- 5.4 Generalization: 'there are ̧Â#x9D;Å#x93;... many'
- 5.5 Beyond SOL: infinitary conjunction
- 5.5.1 Superhumans
- 5.5.2 Generalization
- 5.6 Beyond SOL: cardinality quantifiers
- 5.7 Conclusion
- Appendix: technical results
- 6. Isomorphism Invariance
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Form as schematic
- 6.2.1 MacFarlane on formality
- 6.2.2 Form as normative
- 6.2.3 Form as topic-neutral
- 6.2.4 Form as abstraction
- 6.4 A necessary condition on OTL
- 6.5 Miscellaneous comments
- 6.6 McGee's Theorem
- 6.6.1 Isomorphism invariance
- 6.6.2 Relations
- 6.6.3 Caveats
- 6.6.4 Isomorphism-invariant relations
- 7. Towards the One True Logic
- 7.1 The logic's type
- 7.2 Theory of models
- 7.3 Mathematical consequences?
- Appendix: the generalized quantifier 'most'
- PART III. OBJECTIONS
- 8. The Heterogeneity Objection
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Uniform-isomorphism invariance
- 8.3 Feferman's invariantism
- 8.4 Bonnay's invariantism
- 8.5 Conclusion
- 9. The Overgeneration Objection
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Sensitivity
- 9.3 CH is logically true
- 9.4 CH is determinate
- 9.5 CH is epistemically determined
- 9.6 CH and neutrality
- 9.6.1 Dialectical neutrality
- 9.6.2 Informational neutrality
- 9.7 CH is logically expressible
- 9.8 Identity
- 9.9 Conclusion
- Appendix: logical notions
- 10. The Absoluteness Objection
- 10.1 The absoluteness objection
- 10.2 Meaning-theoretic motivations
- 10.3 Anti-realist motivations
- 10.4 Independence motivations
- 10.5 Conclusion
- 11. The Intensional Objection
- 11.1 Unicorn negation
- 11.2 Modal responses
- 11.3 Biting the bullet
- 11.4 An open question
- 11.5 Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.