Revisiting Quine on Truth by Convention.
In 'Truth by Convention' W.V. Quine gave an influential argument against logical conventionalism. Even today his argument is often taken to decisively refute logical conventionalism. Here I break Quine's arguments into two-(i) the super-task argument and (ii) the regress argument-and argue that whil...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 119 - 140 |
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