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- From: rar@csl.sri.com (Bob Riemenschneider)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Foundations without foundationalism.
- Date: 28 Jan 93 13:19:05
- Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
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- In-reply-to: wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:04:30 GMT
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- In article <C1HvBI.D9M@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor) writes:
-
- > ... I particularly liked seeing defended in print, the "heretical doctrine" that
- > first-order logic is *not necessarily* the be-all and end-all in logic.
- > It is nice indeed, merely to have the view expressed that it may be a good
- > idea to "shop around" for the most convenient logic for one's needs. ...
-
- This doctrine is not so heretical as it once was; if "logician" is
- fairly broadly construed, I would guess that a majority of logicians
- agree with it. Not many would go as far as, say, Barwise in arguing for
- logical pluralism, but a variety of constructive, Intuitionistic, and
- modal logics are generally considered quite respectable these days.
-
- On the subject of choosing an appropriate logic for mathematics, I
- recommend having a look at Barwise and Feferman's _Model_Theoretic Logics_.
-
- -- rar
-