A Logic for a Critical Attitude?

Individuating the logic of scientific discovery appears a hopeless enterprise. Less hopeless is trying to figure out a logical way to model the epistemic attitude distinguishing the practice of scientists. In this paper, we claim that classical logic cannot play such a descriptive role. We propose,...

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Published in:Logic & Logical Philosophy Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 261 - 289
Main Authors: Boem, Federico, Bonzio, Stefano
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Published: Logic & Logical Philosophy Jun2022
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          Philosophy and Technology Section (PHIL) University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands
          Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Cagliari Cagliari, Italy
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        Scientists' attitudes
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