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2631The Subject Matter of Logic: Explaining what logic is aboutDissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. 2021.Logicians disagree about how validity—the very heart of logic—should be understood. Many different formal systems have been born due to this disagreement. This thesis examines how teachers explain the subject matter of logic to students in introductory logic textbooks, and demonstrates the different explanations teachers use. These differences help explain why logicians have different intuitions about validity.
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213Logic and NormativityDissertation, University of Otago. 2012.What is the relationship between logic and thought? One view is that logic merely describes how people think. But this view – called 'psychologism' – cannot be quite right. Logic cannot describe how people reason, because although people can reason well, they can also reason badly. The obvious response is to say that logic does not describe how people do think, but rather prescribes how they ought to think. If logic describes how people ought to reason, then if the premises of a logical argument…Read more
Victoria University of Wellington
School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations
PhD, 2021
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Areas of Specialization
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Introductions to Logic |