Intuitions, theory choice and the ameliorative character of logical theories

Abstract Anti-exceptionalists about logic claim that logical methodology is not different from scientific when it comes to theory choice. Two anti-exceptionalist accounts of choice in are abductivism (defended by Priest and Williamson) predictivism (recently proposed Martin Hjortland). These have common reliance on pre-theoretical intuitions for the assessment candidate theories. In this paper, I investigate whether can provide what want them conclude they do not. As an alternative these approaches, propose a Carnapian view theorizing according which theories simply account intuitions, but rather improve them. account, ameliorative, than representational.