Varieties of Logic

by Stewart Shapiro

Book Overview

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to something. In Varieties of Logic, Stewart Shapiro develops several ways in which one can be a pluralist or relativist about logic. One of these is an extended argument that words and phrases like 'valid' and 'logical consequence' are polysemous or, perhaps...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198822693
• ISBN13: 9780198822691
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"