Barriers to Entailment: Hume's Law and Other Limits on Logical Consequence
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A barrier to entailment exists if you can't get conclusions of a certain kind from premises of another. One of the most famous barriers in philosophy is Hume's Law, which says that you can't get normative conclusions from descriptive premises, or in slogan form: you can't get an ought from an is. This barrier is highly controversial, and many famous counterexamples were proposed in the last century. But there are other barriers which function almost...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:019287473X
ISBN13:9780192874733
Release Date:December 2023
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 2.3" x 5.8"
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