Barriers to Entailment: Hume's Law and other Limits on Logical Consequence
Gillian K. Russell's Barriers to Entailment examines Hume's Law and other philosophical limits on logical consequence. It explores barriers that prevent certain inferences, analyzing how premises fail to entail specific conclusions. The book provides a detailed study of these constraints and their role in shaping valid reasoning within philosophy and logic.
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In Barriers to Entailment, Gillian K. Russell investigates key constraints on logical consequence, focusing on Hume's Law and related philosophical boundaries.
The book addresses how certain inferences are blocked, preventing conclusions from following strictly from premises, and examines these limits in depth.
Russell's analysis highlights the implications for argumentation and reasoning in philosophy, offering a rigorous look at what entailment cannot achieve.
This work contributes to ongoing discussions in logic by clarifying the scope and restrictions of deductive validity.
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