Carnap’s Tolerance, Meaning and Logical Pluralism

“Carnap's Tolerance, Meaning and Logical Pluralism,” Journal of Philosophy 99 (2002) 426–443.

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In this paper, I distinguish different kinds of pluralism about logical consequence. In particular, I distinguish the pluralism about logic arising from Carnap’s Principle of Tolerance from a pluralism which maintains that there are different, equally “good” logical consequence relations on the one language. I will argue that this second form of pluralism does more justice to the contemporary state of logical theory and practice than does Carnap’s more moderate pluralism.

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