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In Search of an Integrated Logic of Conviction and Intention

Hoche, Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Ulrich (2004) In Search of an Integrated Logic of Conviction and Intention. [Journal (Paginated)]

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According to a two-level criterion for combination tests in the field of ordinary language (C-CT), moral 'ought'-sentences may be taken to imply 'I intend'-sentences partly semantically and partly pragmatically. If so, a trenchant linguistic analysis of the concept of moral obligation cannot do without a non-classical logic which allows to model these important kinds of ordinary-language implications by means of purely syntactical derivations. For this purpose, an integrated logic of conviction and intention has been tentatively devised by way of a doxastically, buletically, and pragmatically extended calculus of natural deduction. This system of buletic logic cannot even be launched without one or two derivation rules of deductive closedness. However, these very closedness rules appear to be responsible for buletic paradoxes which are analogous to paradoxes long since known from other, less exotic branches of logic but at first sight look much more virulent. After having scrutinized two potential strategies for coping with the paradoxes of buletic logic, finally we can convince ourselves that these paradoxes, as well as their familiar non-buletic counterparts, are but apparent paradoxes, provided we consistently lean on C-CT and do not let pragmatical considerations intrude into purely logical ones.

Item Type:Journal (Paginated)
Keywords:Combination tests, deductive closedness, doxastic logic, entailment, Hare, logical paradoxes, logic of willing and believing, metaethics, moral obligation, natural deduction, 'ought'-sentences, pragmatical implication, pragmatical vs. logical considerations
Subjects:Philosophy > Logic
ID Code:4756
Deposited By: Hoche, Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Ulrich
Deposited On:06 Mar 2006
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:56

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