Logical Nihilism: Could There Be No Logic?

Philosophical Issues 28 (1):308-324 (2018)
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Logical monists and pluralists disagree about how many correct logics there are; the monists say there is just one, the pluralists that there are more. Could it turn out that both are wrong, and that there is no logic at all?

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