Should pluralists be pluralists about pluralism?
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Abstract How many correct logics are there? Monists endorse that there is one, pluralists argue for many, and nihilists claim none. Reasoning about these views requires a logic. That the meta-logic. It turns out some meta-logical challenges specifically pluralists. I will depend on an implicitly assumed absoluteness of Pluralists can solve by giving up this instead adopt contextualism This naturalistically appealing.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0039-7857', '1573-0964']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03348-5