Supervaluationism and good reasoning
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| author | Timothy Williamson |
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| contents | Supervaluationism and good reasoning Timothy Williamson Filosofía meta rule sorites vagueness ambiguity This paper is a tribute to Delia Graff Fara. It extends her work on failures of meta-rules (conditional proof, RAA, contraposition, disjunction elimination) for validity as truth-preservation under a supervaluationist identification of truth with supertruth. She showed that such failures occur even in languages without special vagueness-related operators, for standards of deductive reasoning as materially rather than purely logically good, depending on a context-dependent background. This paper extends her argument to: quantifier meta-rules like existential elimination; ambiguity; deliberately vague standard mathematical notation. Supervaluationist attempts to qualify the meta-rules impose unreasonable cognitive demands on reasoning and underestimate her challenge. 2018 artículo científico 0495-4548 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=339757246014 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3397/339757246014/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3397/339757246014/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3397/339757246014/339757246014.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3397/339757246014/movil https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.18490 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3397 THEORIA. Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia application/pdf Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea THEORIA. Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia (España) Num.3 Vol.33 |
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| spellingShingle | Supervaluationism and good reasoning Timothy Williamson Filosofía meta rule sorites vagueness ambiguity Supervaluationism and good reasoning Timothy Williamson Filosofía meta rule sorites vagueness ambiguity This paper is a tribute to Delia Graff Fara. It extends her work on failures of meta-rules (conditional proof, RAA, contraposition, disjunction elimination) for validity as truth-preservation under a supervaluationist identification of truth with supertruth. She showed that such failures occur even in languages without special vagueness-related operators, for standards of deductive reasoning as materially rather than purely logically good, depending on a context-dependent background. This paper extends her argument to: quantifier meta-rules like existential elimination; ambiguity; deliberately vague standard mathematical notation. Supervaluationist attempts to qualify the meta-rules impose unreasonable cognitive demands on reasoning and underestimate her challenge. 2018 artículo científico 0495-4548 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=339757246014 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3397/339757246014/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3397/339757246014/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3397/339757246014/339757246014.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3397/339757246014/movil https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.18490 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3397 THEORIA. Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia application/pdf Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea THEORIA. Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia (España) Num.3 Vol.33 |
| title | Supervaluationism and good reasoning |
| topic | Filosofía meta rule sorites vagueness ambiguity |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=339757246014 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3397/339757246014/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3397/339757246014/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3397/339757246014/339757246014.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3397/339757246014/movil https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.18490 |