One Step Forward From Agassi’s Inquiries on Logic
A Fallibilist Logic for Critical Rationalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10928142 |
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| Authors | John Wettersten (Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 380-387 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of the Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-3931 • E-ISSN: 1552-7441 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00483931221100423 |
| OpenAlex | W4306407936 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Critical rationalists cannot reconcile their falibilism with the demand of logic for universality. Popper tried, but failed, to achieve universality in logic without proof. Attempts to find a limited approach to logic as ‘logics of’ have failed to find a coherent critical rationalist alternative. Critical rationalists take Tarski’s logic to be the best of logic today. But Tarski renders logic as close to justification, and thereby universality, as possible. A fallibilist version of Tarskian logic can yield a critical rationalist alternative: It provides rules for solving problems in linguistic contexts, but also discovers mistakes by discovering errors in logical inference
Epistemology · Philosophy of logic · Physics · Universality (dynamical systems) · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
| Highly cited | No |
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