Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Abstract

On one traditional approach to the epistemology of logic, logic is analytic and our knowledge of it is based on our knowledge of meaning. On another, beliefs about logic are just one part of the interconnected web of our beliefs about the world, a web that can be revised as a whole in response to new data of any kind. But the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic analyticity allows for alternatives, and this paper argues for a third view, on which logical truths are true in virtue of meaning, though their epistemology is more holist.