Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

DOI

10.1007/s11245-016-9423-y

Publication Title

Topoi

Pages

1-10

Abstract

Rudolf Carnap’s logical pluralism is often held to be one in which corresponding connectives in different logics have different meanings. This paper presents an alternative view of Carnap’s position, in which connectives can and do share their meaning in some (though not all) contexts. This re-interpretation depends crucially on extending Carnap’s linguistic framework system to include meta-linguistic frameworks, those frameworks which we use to talk about linguistic frameworks. I provide an example that shows how this is possible, and give some textual evidence that Carnap would agree with this interpretation. Additionally, I show how this interpretation puts the Carnapian position much more in line with the position given in Shapiro (Varieties of Logic. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014) than had been thought before.

Comments

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Topoi. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-016-9423-y

Original Publication Citation

Kouri, T. (2016). A new interpretation of Carnap’s logical pluralism. Topoi, 1-10. doi:10.1007/s11245-016-9423-y

ORCID

0000-0001-6519-1723 (Kouri Kissel)

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