Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

DOI

10.26650/arcp2019-5110

Publication Title

Felsefe Arkivi

Issue

51

Pages

153-160

Abstract

Logical pluralism is the theory that there is more than one right logic. Logical instrumentalism is the view that a logic is a correct logic if it can be used to fruitfully pursue some deductive inquiry. Logical instrumentalism is a version of logical pluralism, since more than one logic can be used fruitfully. In this paper, I will show that a logical instrumentalist must accept linear logic as a correct logic, since linear logic is useful for studying natural language syntax. I further show that this means that the logical instrumentalist must accept a wide range of connectives, in particular concatenation. I end by explaining why this is a feature rather than a bug.

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"Authors agree that ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY will publish the content under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license that gives permission to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format other than commercial purposes as well as remix, transform and build upon the material by providing appropriate credit to the original work."

Original Publication Citation

Kissel, T. K. (2019). Logical Instrumentalism and Concatenation. Felsefe Arkivi (51), 153-160. https://doi.org/10.26650/arcp2019-5110

ORCID

0000-0001-6519-1723 (Kissel)

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