Should pluralists be pluralists about pluralism?
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| Publication date | 12-2021 |
| Journal | Synthese |
| Volume | Issue number | 199 | 5-6 |
| Pages (from-to) | 12663-12682 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
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| Abstract |
How many correct logics are there? Monists endorse that there is one, pluralists argue for many, and nihilists claim that there are none. Reasoning about these views requires a logic. That is the meta-logic. It turns out that there are some meta-logical challenges specifically for the pluralists. I will argue that these depend on an implicitly assumed absoluteness of correct logic. Pluralists can solve the challenges by giving up on this absoluteness and instead adopt contextualism about correct logic. This contextualism is naturalistically appealing. |
| Document type | Article |
| Note | Funding Information: This research was supported by a Cultuurfondsbeurs of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (Reiman-de Bas Fonds and Niemans-Schootemeijer Fonds) as well as a doctoral scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03348-5 |
| Other links | https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85112206971 |
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