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A Quick Primer on Logic and Rationality

Authors :
Anthony D'Amato
Source :
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Publication Year :
2006
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2006.

Abstract

Logic does not permit contradictions. Ordinary language sometimes uses contradictions meaningfully. Examples are provided of logical derivations. Yet one might ask how one might prove that logic itself is rational. Gottlob Frege answered that logic constitutes rationality.

Details

ISSN :
15565068
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
SSRN Electronic Journal
Accession number :
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