The Logical Alien
The Logical Alien "A remarkable book capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy to be." --Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita, University of VirginiaCould there be a logical…
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The Logical Alien
"A remarkable book capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy to be." --Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita, University of VirginiaCould there be a logical alien--a being whose ways of talking, inferring, and contradicting exhibit an entirely different logical shape than ours, yet who nonetheless is thinking? Such questions may seem outlandish, but they serve to highlight a fundamental philosophical question: is our logical form of thought merely one among many, or must it be the form of thought as such?From Descartes and Kant to Frege and Wittgenstein, philosophers have wrestled with variants of this question, and with a range of competing answers. Could someone, contrary to the most basic rules of logic, think that two contradictory statements are both true at the same time?
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