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Lecture IV
pp. 43-50
Abstract
The excess of confidence in logic culminates in logicism, a position common to medieval Scholasticism and modern rationalism. This mistake can best be illustrated by the idea, especially developed by Leibniz, that the lack of contradiction in a concept is a warrant that the corresponding object exists. Certain inconsistencies in Leibniz's system were corrected by Wolff, whose excesses finally allowed Kant to uncover the logicist fallacy.
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Nelson Leonard (2016) A theory of philosophical fallacies. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 43-50
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20783-4_5
Full citation:
Nelson Leonard (2016) Lecture IV, In: A theory of philosophical fallacies, Dordrecht, Springer, 43–50.


