Open AccessA Logic for a Critical Attitude?
Author(s) -
Federico Boem,
Stefano Bonzio
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
logic and logical philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.416
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2300-9802
pISSN - 1425-3305
DOI - 10.12775/llp.2022.010
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , epistemology , computer science , epistemic modal logic , description logic , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , multimodal logic , programming language
Individuating the logic of scientific discovery appears a hopeless enterprise. Less hopeless is trying to figure out a logical way to model the epistemic attitude distinguishing the practice of scientists. In this paper, we claim that classical logic cannot play such a descriptive role. We propose, instead, one of the three-valued logics in the Kleene family that is often classified as the less attractive one, namely Hallden’s logic. By providing it with an appropriate epistemic interpretation, we can informally model the scientific attitude.