Logical concepts and logical inferences

Dialectica 58 (3):395–411 (2004)
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Abstract

Some philosophers find the following thesis attractive: for every logical constant C there is a set of logical rules of inference R such that a subject knows the meaning of C if and only if she accepts the rules in R. I point out some obvious but, apparently, easily forgotten difficulties concerning this thesis

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