A framework for intersubjective accountability: Dialogical logic

Abstract

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses dialogical logic. Although dialogical logic — or, dialogue logic — offers a radical change in most concepts of logic. The chapter emphasize its enormous potential for practical logic. For this purpose it is necessary to distinguish dialogical logic both from the group of post-medieval traditional logics and from modern (roughly, twentieth century) logics. Dialogical logic offers a complete re-modelling of the latter, whereas traditional logics are not amenable to remodelling in dialogical terms. The chapter brings a theoretical survey of dialogical or dialogue logic and reviews its categories in terms of their traditional predecessors, delving into the history of ideas for a deeper assessment of the importance of this framework. A study of the history of ideas concerning logic provides insight in the need for logical instruments that take human dialogue openly into account.