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  • 27. 3. 2024
  • Aktuality

May logic be seen as a science of patterns in the sense in which mathematics is a science of patterns? Or rather in the sense in which physics is? The proposal of logician Jaroslav Peregrin is that logic identifies, explores, and fixes the inferential patterns which de facto govern our argumentative practices. It can be seen as picking up the patterns and working from them toward the state of reflective equilibrium, where the laws it aims at are explicitly articulated. More in a recent article by Jaroslav Peregrin in Journal of Philosophy 121 (1):5-25, one of the most prestigious philosophical journals worldwide.