Structures and Logics: A Case for (a) Relativism

被引:6
作者
Shapiro, Stewart [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Ohio State Univ, Dept Philosophy, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[2] Univ St Andrews, Arche Res Ctr, St Andrews KY16 9AL, Fife, Scotland
关键词
PLURALISM;
D O I
10.1007/s10670-013-9480-1
中图分类号
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
In this paper, I use the cases of intuitionistic arithmetic with Church's thesis, intuitionistic analysis, and smooth infinitesimal analysis to argue for a sort of pluralism or relativism about logic. The thesis is that logic is relative to a structure. There are classical structures, intuitionistic structures, and (possibly) paraconsistent structures. Each such structure is a legitimate branch of mathematics, and there does not seem to be an interesting logic that is common to all of them. One main theme of my ante rem structuralism is that any coherent axiomatization describes a structure, or a class of structures. If one weakens the logic, then more axiomatizations become coherent.
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页码:309 / 329
页数:21
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