Logical Principles of Agnosticism

  • Luis Rosa

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Abstract

Logic arguably plays a role in the normativity of reasoning. In particular, there are plausible norms of belief/disbelief whose antecedents are constituted by claims about what follows from what. But is logic also relevant to the normativity of agnostic attitudes? The question here is whether logical entailment also puts constraints on what kinds of things one can suspend judgment about. In this paper I address that question and I give a positive answer to it. In particular, I advance two logical norms of agnosticism, where the first one allows us to assess situations in which the subject is agnostic about the conclusion of a valid argument and the second one allows us to assess situations in which the subject is agnostic about one of the premises of a valid argument.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1263-1283
Number of pages21
JournalErkenntnis
Volume84
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2019

Keywords

  • Bridge-principles
  • Normativity of logic
  • Suspended judgment

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