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[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 3. Logical Truth ]

Full Idea

The standard modern view of logical truth is that a statement is logically true if it comes out true in all interpretations in all (non-empty) domains.

Gist of Idea

A statement is logically true if it comes out true in all interpretations in all (non-empty) domains

Source

Alan Musgrave (Logicism Revisited [1977], §3)

Book Ref

-: 'British Soc for the Philosophy of Science' [-], p.106


The 8 ideas from Alan Musgrave

Logical truths may contain non-logical notions, as in 'all men are men' [Musgrave]
A statement is logically true if it comes out true in all interpretations in all (non-empty) domains [Musgrave]
Logical positivists adopted an If-thenist version of logicism about numbers [Musgrave]
No two numbers having the same successor relies on the Axiom of Infinity [Musgrave]
Formalism seems to exclude all creative, growing mathematics [Musgrave]
Formalism is a bulwark of logical positivism [Musgrave]
The If-thenist view only seems to work for the axiomatised portions of mathematics [Musgrave]
Perhaps If-thenism survives in mathematics if we stick to first-order logic [Musgrave]