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Is logic empirical?
pp. 75-100
Abstract
I want to begin by considering a case in which "necessary' truths (or rather "truths', turned out to be falsehoods: the case of Euclidean geometry. I then want to raise the question: could some of the "necessary truths' of logic ever turn out to be false for empirical reasons? I shall argue that the answer to this question is in the affirmative, and that logic is, in a certain sense, a natural science.
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Cohen Robert S, Wartofsky Mark W (1985) A portrait of twenty-five years: Boston colloquium for the philosophy of science 1960–1985. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 75-100
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-5345-1_7
Full citation:
Putnam Hilary (1985) „Is logic empirical?“, In: R.S. Cohen & M.W. Wartofsky (eds.), A portrait of twenty-five years, Dordrecht, Springer, 75–100.