Abstract
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel’s inaugural lecture, delivered before the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in November 1963, was entitled ‘The Betrayal of the Logicians’. However, rather than being a representative, honest and sad confession, it was a persuasive attack, an optimistic, paternal sermon:
…Tracing the double origins of logic from a study of the techniques of rational persuasion and from a study of the validity of scientific… inference, arriving at a common climax in Aristotle’s work, the subsequent retreat of the logicians from the analysis of argumentation in everyday discourse into treatment of argumentation in more or less formalized languages…is deplored and considered a betrayal of their original mission.
This research was partly supported by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. I owe much to conversations with Naomi Kasher, on maxims and rationality.
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Kasher, A. (1976). Conversational Maxims and Rationality. In: Kasher, A. (eds) Language in Focus: Foundations, Methods and Systems. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1876-0_12
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