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Some years ago, in the fifth volume of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Hilary Putnam published a paper entitled ‘Is Logic Empirical?’.** In my opinion, this paper represents a very important turning point in the philosophical discussion concerning the relations between logic and the empirical sciences. At first sight, Putnam’s thesis (according to which logic may be dependent on experience) appears to be quite revolutionary, in the sense that it goes against a deeply-rooted philosophical opinion, which has been systematically defended in the history of modern logic from Leibniz to Carnap and which asserts that a characteristic feature of formal logic is its absolute independence from any content. Historically this view has often been connected to a kind of faith in the uniqueness of logic.
Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 196/68, ed. by R.S. Cohen and M. Wartofsky. Dordrecht, Reidel, 1969, pp. 216–241.
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Chiara, M.L.D. (1980). Is there a Logic of Empirical Sciences?. In: Dalla Chiara, M.L. (eds) Italian Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8937-5_12
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