On the Unfinished and Uncertain Paths of Logic
The Case of Non-Monotonic Logics
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https://doi.org/10.15517/revfil.2025.65009Keywords:
Kant, Logic, Reasoning, no-monotonicity, defeasibilityAbstract
In the prologue of the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant offers a vision of logic as a science completely finished. Nevertheless, further advances have proven this Kantian idea wrong. The current work offers a discussion of non-monotonic logics and some of the philosophical presuppositions as an example of a formal system of very recent development with an interdisciplinary background that allows us to understand a particular class of inferences of human reasoning. In this sense, non-monotonic logics are a paradigmatic case which shows how distant is logic from being a perfect and finished science.
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