An Alleged Tension Between non-classical Logics and Applied Classical Mathematics

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Abstract

Timothy Williamson has recently argued that the applicability of classical mathematics in the natural and social sciences raises a problem for the endorsement, in non-mathematical domains, of a wide range of non-classical logics. We first reconstruct his argument and present its restriction to the case of quantum logic (QL). Then we show that there is no problematic tension between the applicability of classical mathematical models to quantum phenomena and the endorsement of QL in the reasoning about the latter. Once we identify the premise in Williamson’s argument that turns out to be false when restricted to QL, we argue that the same premise fails for a wider variety of non-classical logics. In the end, we use our discussion to draw some general lessons concerning the relationship between applied logic and applied mathematics.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seitenumfang23
FachzeitschriftThe Philosophical Quarterly
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PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2024

ÖFOS 2012

  • 603109 Logik
  • 603124 Wissenschaftstheorie

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