°Not° Again


Συγγραφέας: Huw Price


Huw Price: °Not° Again (pdf, 189K)
This paper revisits some views about negation I defended in two early papers. Some of the themes of those papers have been developed sympathetically in recent work by Tim Smiley Lloyd Humberstone and Ian Rumfitt. However, Rumfitt and Peter Gibbard have both criticised arguments I offered in defence of Double Negation Elimination (DNE), against a Dummettian intuitionist. I reconsider those arguments, arguing that although they survive Rumfitt°s and Gibbardis attacks, the case against Dummett is for other reasons less straightforward than I took it to be. With reference to Rumfitt°s own defence of DNE, I eall attention to the attractions of the...