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Full Idea
If 'and' and 'but' really are alike in sense, in what might that likeness consist? Some philosophers of classical logic will reply that they share a sense by virtue of sharing a truth table.
Gist of Idea
Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table
Source
Ian Rumfitt ("Yes" and "No" [2000])
Book Ref
-: 'Mind' [-], p.784
A Reaction
This is the standard view which Rumfitt sets out to challenge.
11210 | Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table [Rumfitt] |
11211 | If a sound conclusion comes from two errors that cancel out, the path of the argument must matter [Rumfitt] |
11212 | The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference [Rumfitt] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |