Protocol Sentences for Lite Logicism

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Abstract

According to the late Richard Jeffrey’s “lite logicism”, a kind of a cross between Frege-Russell logicism and Hilbert’s formalism, mathematics is logical only in the sense in which physics is empirical: the data of mathematics are logical, as the data of physics are empirical, though in each case a theoretical structure of the science goes far beyond the data. After this view is introduced and compared and contrasted with others, the question just what form the “protocol sentences” or reports of data are to take is examined.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSynthese Library
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages27-46
Number of pages20
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Publication series

NameSynthese Library
Volume341
ISSN (Print)0166-6991
ISSN (Electronic)2542-8292

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Language and Linguistics
  • History
  • Logic
  • History and Philosophy of Science

Keywords

  • Arithmetical Fact
  • Auxiliary Hypothesis
  • Classical Mathematic
  • Logical Schema
  • Observation Report

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