Logic as Calculus and Logic as Language: Too Suggestive to be Truthful?

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 questi...

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Main Author: Jan von Plato
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Éditions Kimé 2021-02-01
Series:Philosophia Scientiæ
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/2816