Multitude, tolerance and language-transcendence
pp. 833-847
Résumé
Rudolf Carnap’s 1930s philosophy of logic, including his adherence to the principle of tolerance, is discussed. What theses did Carnap commit himself to, exactly? I argue that while Carnap did commit himself to a certain multitude thesis—there are different logics of different languages, and the choice between these languages is merely a matter of expediency—there is no evidence that he rejected a language-transcendent notion of fact, contrary to what Warren Goldfarb and Thomas Ricketts have prominently argued. (In fact, it is obscure just what Goldfarb and Ricketts claim about Carnap.) Toward the end I critically discuss Michael Friedman’s suggestion that Carnap believed in a relative a priori.
Détails de la publication
Publié dans:
Lindström Sten, Palmgren Erik, Westerståhl Dag (2012) The philosophy of logical consequence and inference. Synthese 187 (3).
Pages: 833-847
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-011-9904-x
Citation complète:
Eklund Matti, 2012, Multitude, tolerance and language-transcendence. Synthese 187 (3), The philosophy of logical consequence and inference, 833-847. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-9904-x.