The Dialogical Roots Of Deduction by Catarina Dutilh Novaes
Historical, Cognitive, and Philosophical Perspectives on Inferential Practice
Arguing that deductive reasoning is best understood as a product of argumentative practice rather than as an isolated formal artifact, this book traces how rules of inference, proof, and refutation emerge from dialogical interactions of inquiry and dispute. Combining historical case studies with conceptual analysis, it shows how ancient and later traditions of debate and testing shaped the norms and procedures that underpin modern deduction, and it develops a dialogical framework that connects formal proof-theoretic accounts with everyday and scientific argumentation. The result is a reconceptualization of deduction as a social, adversarial, and goal-directed activity whose logical form and normative force arise from the requirements and constraints of interactive reasoning.
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- 2012
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- British
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- English
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