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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Is logic universal or hierarchical?

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

pp. 307-318

Abstract

Some conceptions of logic claim that they are universal. By contrast, I assume that the applications of any logic are central to its conception, so that it has to comprise a hierarchy of its metalogics, metametalogics, …, indefinitely extended but never capped off with some universal logic. I also advocate for the distinction between parts and moments of a multitude as key to this conception, and I query the assumption that set theory provides the most general means of handling collections of objects.

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Koslow Arnold, Buchsbaum Arthur (2015) The road to universal logic II: Festschrift for the 50th birthday of Jean-Yves Béziau. Basel, Birkhäuser.

Pages: 307-318

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-15368-1_14

Full citation:

Grattan-Guinness Ivor (2015) „Is logic universal or hierarchical?“, In: A. Koslow & A. Buchsbaum (eds.), The road to universal logic II, Basel, Birkhäuser, 307–318.