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Assertion, denial, content, and (logical) form

Jack Woods

pp. 1667-1680

Abstract

I discuss Greg Restall’s attempt to generate an account of logical consequence from the incoherence of certain packages of assertions and denials. I take up his justification of the cut rule and argue that, in order to avoid counterexamples to cut, he needs, at least, to introduce a notion of logical form. I then suggest a few problems that will arise for his account if a notion of logical form is assumed. I close by sketching what I take to be the most natural minimal way of distinguishing content and form and suggest further problems arising for this route.

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(2016) Synthese 193 (6).

Pages: 1667-1680

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0797-y

Full citation:

Woods Jack (2016) „Assertion, denial, content, and (logical) form“. Synthese 193 (6), 1667–1680.