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Prawitz's Epistemic Grounding: An Investigation Into the Power of Deduction

Prawitz's Epistemic Grounding: An Investigation Into the Power of Deduction

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Series: Synthese Library, Book 469

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ISBN10: 3031202961
ISBN13: 9783031202964
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 3 2024
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book presents an in-depth and critical reconstruction of Prawitz's epistemic grounding, and discusses it within the broader field of proof-theoretic semantics. The theory of grounds is also provided with a formal framework, through which several relevant results are proved. Investigating Prawitz's theory of grounds, this work answers one of the most fundamental questions in logic: why and how do some inferences have the epistemic power to compel us to accept their conclusion, if we have accepted their premises? Prawitz proposes an innovative description of inferential acts, as applications of constructive operations on grounds for the premises, yielding a ground for the conclusion.

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