Scrutinizing Anti-exceptionalism
Abstract
In this paper, I argue against present accounts of anti-exceptionalism
about logic, while preserving some of their insights. I will do that by
offering objections against the anti-exceptionalists’ claims that revisions happen in the same way in sciences and in logic, and that the
methodology of logic involves abduction simpliciter. I propose a new
account of theory divergence for logic with anti-exceptionalist aspects
which also preserves exceptionalism on some level while considering
the role of metalogic in the exceptionalist/anti-exceptionalist debate.