Was Hugh MacColl a logical pluralist or a logical monist? A case study in the slow emergence of metatheorising

In the mid- and late 1900s Bertrand Russell and Hugh MacColl had a non-discussion about implication and existence, as parts of a dispute over the nature of logic. We are tempted to see this debate in terms of logical monist Russell against logical pluralist MacColl, but I argue that this interpretat...

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Main Author: Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Éditions Kimé 2011-04-01
Series:Philosophia Scientiæ
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/372