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Members of the Thesis Committee: (2010)
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@MISC{Negro10membersof,
author = {Antonio Negro and Drs Theodora Achourioti and Prof Dr and Dick De Jongh and Dr. Catarina and Dutilh Novaes and Prof Dr and Martin Stokhof},
title = {Members of the Thesis Committee:},
year = {2010}
}
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Abstract
Anumberofdeviantdeductivesystemshavebeenproposedwhichdiffer in some way from classical logic. An influential philosophical interpretation of plurality in logic has been developed by Quine, who introduced the meaningchange thesis, summarized in his "Change of logic, change of subject". We show that if Quine is right about the consequences of his thesis, then the systems of classical logic can only be rejected as unscientific or meaningless, and not refined as inadequate. We show that there are good reasons both for and against his thesis. We argue against Local Pluralism, on the basis that it is incompatible with the universality and normativity of logic. We then assess Beall and Restall’s logical pluralism, which is shown to be not sufficiently fine-grained in that it leads to relativism in logic. We finally introduce Dalla Pozza’s Global Pluralism, where deviant logics are viewed as dealing with specific pragmatic meta-concepts, which are distinct from
