Logic and Reality: Impossible Worlds Problems
According to David Hume, the impossible cannot be conceived. Moritz Schlick claimed that the logically impossible, such as an explicit inconsistency, is simply unthinkable. Yet Hegel complained that it is “one of the fundamental prejudices of logic as hitherto understood” that “the contradictory cannot be imagined or thought” (Hegel 1931: 430). On this approach, our representational capabilities are not limited … Weiterlesen Logic and Reality: Impossible Worlds Problems
Eric Rose 