One true logic : a monist manifesto /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Griffiths, Owen (Lecturer in philosophy) (Author), Paseau, Alexander (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.