Logic isn’t normative

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 63 (3-4):371-388 (2020)
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Some writers object to logical pluralism on the grounds that logic is normative. The rough idea is that the relation of logical consequence has consequences for what we ought to think and h...

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