The Role of Formal Logic in Hamilton's Argument for the Philosophy of the Conditioned

Journal of Scottish Philosophy 15 (2):197-211 (2017)
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This paper reconstructs Sir William Hamilton's argument for thinking that the unconditioned is not an object of thought, a conclusion he abbreviates with the slogan ‘to think is to condition’. The paper describes Hamilton's conception of formal logic as the study of the laws of thought and claims that this conception allows these laws, particularly those of non-contradiction and excluded middle, to play a substantive role in Hamilton's argument.

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