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The Problem of Logical Constants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2014

Mario Gómez-Torrente
Mario Gómez-Torrente
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Abstract

There have been several different and even opposed conceptions of the problem of logical constants, i.e., of the requirements that a good theory of logical constants ought to satisfy. This paper is in the first place a survey of these conceptions and a critique of the theories they have given rise to. A second aim of the paper is to sketch some ideas about what a good theory would look like. A third aim is to draw from these ideas and from the preceding survey the conclusion that most conceptions of the problem of logical constants involve requirements of a philosophically demanding nature which are probably not satisfiable by any minimally adequate theory.

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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 1 - 37
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