Contradictions in Science: Logic, Reasoning, and a Way Out
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Englisch
Original Tagungtitel:
5th conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
I will provide examples from the history of science where theories were inconsistent and scientists kept using and reasoning with them. This is prohibited by classical logic due to logical explosion, so the underlying logic cannot be classical. Therefore, a strong candidate is paraconsistent logic, which is non-explosive. I suggest that we need to accept the connection between the triptych science-logic-reasoning. This is because to argue that scientific reasoning is based on non-classical logic, we need to accept that science and logic go hand-in-hand, and that logic and reasoning are intimately connected. A connection that scientists do not always presuppose.?
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