Full Idea
Logic is explanatorily and ontologically dependent on rational animals.
Gist of Idea
Logic is explanatorily and ontologically dependent on rational animals
Source
Robert Hanna (Rationality and Logic [2006], 1.6)
Book Reference
Hanna,Robert: 'Rationality and Logic' [MIT 2006], p.25
A Reaction
This is a splendid defiance of the standard Fregean view of logic as having an inner validity of its own, having nothing to do with the psychology of thinkers. But if Hanna is right, why does logical consequence seem to be necessary?