Abstract

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on formal logic and the development of knowledge. Formal is a metatheory and is identical with the syntax and semantics of formalized languages. However, formal logic does not consider any pragmatical questions concerning language and thinking. A theory of knowledge and of its development built within formal logic is an abstraction. A diachronic formal logic helps in the development of knowledge. However, diachronic logic can only be simply an application of notions, theorems and methods used in synchronic logic to the problem of change in human knowledge. Diachronic logic provides only general information concerning the development of human knowledge. This is a simple consequence of the very nature of formal logic. Formal logic, synchronic or diachronic, is an abstract theory, which does not consider non-formal or pragmatical aspects of human knowledge.

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