Logic as Calculus and Logic as Language: Too Suggestive to be Truthful?
The work
| Authors | Jan von Plato |
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| Editors | |
| Type | article |
| Year | 2021 |
| Also known as | plato2021logic |
| Citekey | vonplato2021logic |
Where it appeared
| Published in | Philosophia Scientiae |
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| Publisher | Éditions Kimé |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35--47 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.4000/philosophiascientiae.2816 |
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Access
| Landing page | https://doi.org/10.4000/philosophiascientiae.2816 |
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| Free full text | https://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/pdf/2816 |
Abstract
The paper focuses on the inferential role of quantifiers in Frege, Peano and Russell. Two aspects of the early years of mathematical logic are discussed: the gradual perfection of the principles of reasoning with quantifiers, and the presumed conceptual impossibility of posing metatheoretical questions, as embodied in Jean van Heijenoort’s well-known dictum about “logic as calculus and logic as language.”
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@article{vonplato2021logic,
title = {Logic as Calculus and Logic as Language: Too Suggestive to be Truthful?},
author = {Jan von Plato},
year = {2021},
journal = {Philosophia Scientiae},
publisher = {Éditions Kimé},
volume = {25},
number = {1},
pages = {35--47},
doi = {10.4000/philosophiascientiae.2816},
}
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