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Lecture IV
pp. 43-50
Résumé
The excess of confidence in logic culminates in logicism, a position common to medieval Scholasticism and modern rationalism. This mistake can best be illustrated by the idea, especially developed by Leibniz, that the lack of contradiction in a concept is a warrant that the corresponding object exists. Certain inconsistencies in Leibniz's system were corrected by Wolff, whose excesses finally allowed Kant to uncover the logicist fallacy.
Détails de la publication
Publié dans:
Nelson Leonard (2016) A theory of philosophical fallacies. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 43-50
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20783-4_5
Citation complète:
Nelson Leonard, 2016, Lecture IV. In L. Nelson A theory of philosophical fallacies (43-50). Dordrecht, Springer.