Intuitions, theory choice and the ameliorative character of logical theories

DOI10.1007/S11229-021-03329-8MaRDI QIDQ6180123zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors César Frederico dos Santos

Publication date 19 January 2024

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03329-8

zbMATH Keywords

abductivism in logicameliorative analysisCarnapian explicationlogical intuitionspredictivism in logic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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