It is often claimed that the conclusion of a deductively valid argument is contained in its premises. Popper refuted this claim when he showed that an empirical theory can be expected always to have logical consequences that transcend the current understanding of the theory. This implies that no formalisation of an empirical theory will enable the derivation of all its logical consequences. I call this result ‘Popper-incompleteness.’ This result appears to be consistent with the view of deductive reasoning as a process of unfurling the content of the premises; but I suggest that the result about validity impugns this theory of reasoning
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Prawitz has recently developed a theory of epistemic grounding that differs in many respects from hi...
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According to the traditional view, the following incompatibility holds true: in reasoning, either th...
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The doctrine that the content of the conclusion of a deductively valid argument is included in the c...
Deductive reasoning is the kind of reasoning in which, roughly, the truth of the input propositions ...
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Alleged counter-examples deployed in Park (2004) against the account of selective hypothetico deduct...
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The problem of induction reminds us that science cannot wait for empirical hypotheses to be verified...
This thesis is about how deduction is analytic and, at the same time, informative. In the first two ...
That a deductive inference can be useful depends upon, even though it is not quite the same as, its ...
Prawitz has recently developed a theory of epistemic grounding that differs in many respects from hi...
An argument is deductive when the arguer believes the truth of the premises necessitates the truth o...
According to the traditional view, the following incompatibility holds true: in reasoning, either th...
The fallibility of deduction is the thesis that a thoughtful speaker-reasoner can wrongly believe th...
The doctrine that the content of the conclusion of a deductively valid argument is included in the c...
Deductive reasoning is the kind of reasoning in which, roughly, the truth of the input propositions ...
T h e paper questions the common assumption that rational individuals believe all propositions which...
It seems beyond doubt that a thinker can come to know a conclusion by deducing it from premisses tha...
Abstract: In deductive reasoning, if φ is deduced from some set Γ, then φ is already implicit in Γ. ...
The focus of this paper is to examine the problem of induction as a methodology for science. It also...
Alleged counter-examples deployed in Park (2004) against the account of selective hypothetico deduct...
Abstract: This paper presents an outline of a new theory of relevant deduction which arose from the ...
The problem of induction reminds us that science cannot wait for empirical hypotheses to be verified...
This thesis is about how deduction is analytic and, at the same time, informative. In the first two ...
That a deductive inference can be useful depends upon, even though it is not quite the same as, its ...
Prawitz has recently developed a theory of epistemic grounding that differs in many respects from hi...