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Published on: June 2, 2013
On Logical and Scientific Strength
Luca Incurvati1, Carlo Nicolai2
1Department of Philosophy and Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 94201, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
The notion of strength has featured prominently in recent debates about abductivism in the epistemology of logic. Following Timothy Williamson and Gillian Russell, we distinguish between logical and scientific strength and discuss the limits of the characterizations they employ. We then suggest understanding logical strength in terms of interpretability strength and scientific strength as a special case of logical strength. We present applications of the resulting notions to comparisons between logics in the traditional sense and mathematical theories.
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