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Logic, Evolution, Language and Reason

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On the basis of what has been said in the previous two chapters, this chapter examines the relation of logic to evolution, language and reason, Chapter 17 the relation of logic to method and knowledge, and Chapter 19 the relation of philosophy to knowledge.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Zabarella (1608, col. 106).

  2. 2.

    Ibid.

  3. 3.

    Ibid.

  4. 4.

    Frege (1979, 4).

  5. 5.

    Ibid., 174.

  6. 6.

    Ibid., 133.

  7. 7.

    Nagel (1997, 66).

  8. 8.

    Ibid., 135.

  9. 9.

    Cooper (2001, 2).

  10. 10.

    Ibid., 21.

  11. 11.

    Ibid., 5.

  12. 12.

    Ibid., 89.

  13. 13.

    Heidegger (2009, 11).

  14. 14.

    Heidegger (1998, 248).

  15. 15.

    Davidson (2001, 90).

  16. 16.

    Hadamard (1954, 142).

  17. 17.

    Ibid., 75.

  18. 18.

    von Helmholtz (1867, 449).

  19. 19.

    von Helmholtz (1995, 198).

  20. 20.

    Dilthey (1989, 166).

  21. 21.

    Ibid., 167.

  22. 22.

    Husserl (2001, II, 282).

  23. 23.

    Ibid., II, 283.

  24. 24.

    Bennett and Hacker (2003, 137).

  25. 25.

    Ibid.

  26. 26.

    Ibid.

  27. 27.

    Gibson (1986, 238).

  28. 28.

    Ibid., 254.

  29. 29.

    Ibid., 249.

  30. 30.

    Fodor and Pylyshyn (1981, 141).

  31. 31.

    Ibid.

  32. 32.

    Gibson (1986, 281).

  33. 33.

    Pylyshyn (2003, 96).

  34. 34.

    Ibid.

  35. 35.

    Wittgenstein (1958, II, § xi).

  36. 36.

    Peirce (1931–1958, 1.54).

  37. 37.

    Frege (1964, 12).

  38. 38.

    Ibid., 14.

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Cellucci, C. (2013). Logic, Evolution, Language and Reason. In: Rethinking Logic: Logic in Relation to Mathematics, Evolution, and Method. Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6091-2_16

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