Should pluralists be pluralists about pluralism?

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Authors
  Passmann, Robert
Publication Date
2021-12
Journal Title
Synthese
ISSN
0039-7857
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume
199
Issue
5-6
Pages
12663-12682
Language
en
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Article
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Passmann, R. (2021). Should pluralists be pluralists about pluralism?. Synthese, 199 (5-6), 12663-12682. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03348-5
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Funder: studienstiftung des deutschen volkes; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004350
Funder: Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>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.</jats:p>
Keywords
Original Research, Logical pluralism, Correct logic, Meta-logic, Contextualism, Meaning-variance, Coherence
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s11229-021-03348-5, 3348
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03348-5
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/332522


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