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The Semantic Foundations of Logic

Concluding Philosophical Remarks

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The Semantic Foundations of Logic Volume 1: Propositional Logics

Part of the book series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series ((NIPS,volume 35))

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I believe that all logics can be understood in the same way: we start with our everyday language and abstract away certain aspects of linguistic units and take into account certain others by making idealizations of them. The aspects that we pay attention to determine our notion of truth.

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Epstein, R.L. (1990). The Semantic Foundations of Logic. In: The Semantic Foundations of Logic Volume 1: Propositional Logics. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0525-2_11

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