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