<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This essay discusses Peirce’s appeal to logical machines as an argument against psychologism. It also contends that some of Peirce’s anti-psychologistic remarks on logic contain interesting premonitions arising from his perception of the asymmetry of proof complexity in monadic and relational logical calculi that were only given full formulation and explication in the early twentieth century through Church’s Theorem and Hilbert’s broad-ranging <italic>Entscheidungsproblem</italic>.</p></abstract>

This essay discusses Peirce’s appeal to logical machines as an argument against psychologism. It also contends that some of Peirce’s anti-psychologistic remarks on logic contain interesting premonitions arising from his perception of the asymmetry of proof complexity in monadic and relational logical calculi that were only given full formulation and explication in the early twentieth century through Church’s Theorem and Hilbert’s broad-ranging Entscheidungsproblem.

Logical machines: Peirce on psychologism

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This essay discusses Peirce’s appeal to logical machines as an argument against psychologism. It also contends that some of Peirce’s anti-psychologistic...

Logical machines: Peirce on psychologism

Online veröffentlicht: 31. Dez. 2018

Seitenbereich: 335 - 348

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2008-0005

© 2008 Majid Amini, published by Sciendo

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