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- Title
Assertion, denial, content, and (logical) form.
- Authors
Woods, Jack
- Abstract
I discuss Greg Restall's attempt to generate an account of logical consequence from the incoherence of certain packages of assertions and denials. I take up his justification of the cut rule and argue that, in order to avoid counterexamples to cut, he needs, at least, to introduce a notion of logical form. I then suggest a few problems that will arise for his account if a notion of logical form is assumed. I close by sketching what I take to be the most natural minimal way of distinguishing content and form and suggest further problems arising for this route.
- Subjects
ASSERTIONS (Logic); PROPOSITION (Logic); PROTOCOL sentence (Logical positivism); DENIAL (Psychology); DEFENSE mechanisms (Psychology)
- Publication
Synthese, 2016, Vol 193, Issue 6, p1667
- ISSN
0039-7857
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11229-015-0797-y