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[from 'The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930' by Michael Potter, in 5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 3. If-Thenism ]

Full Idea

Deductivism is a good account of large parts of mathematics, but stumbles where mathematics is directly applicable to the world. It fails to explain how we detach the antecedent so as to arrive at unconditional conclusions.

Clarification

'Deductrivism' also known as 'if-thenism'

Gist of Idea

Deductivism can't explain how the world supports unconditional conclusions

Source

Michael Potter (The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930 [2020], 12 'Deduc')

Book Reference

Potter,Michael: 'The Rise of Anaytic Philosophy 1879-1930' [Routledge 2020], p.127


A Reaction

I suppose the reply would be that we have designed deductive structures which fit our understanding of reality - so it is all deductive, but selected pragmatically.