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(1985) A portrait of twenty-five years, Dordrecht, Springer.
I want to begin by considering a case in which "necessary' truths (or rather "truths', turned out to be falsehoods: the case of Euclidean geometry. I then want to raise the question: could some of the "necessary truths' of logic ever turn out to be false for empirical reasons? I shall argue that the answer to this question is in the affirmative, and that logic is, in a certain sense, a natural science.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-5345-1_7
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Putnam, H. (1985)., Is logic empirical?, in R. S. Cohen & M. W. Wartofsky (eds.), A portrait of twenty-five years, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 75-100.
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