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On maximum logical candor and extensionality

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  2. Of course we must be careful not to construe ‘unprofitable’ here in such a way as to exclude most of the history of logic!

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  4. Cf. the author's ‘Does Modal Logic Rest upon a Mistake?’, Philosophical Studies 14 (1963) 33–37.

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  6. Cf. the author's ‘Toward an Extensional Logic of Belief’, The Journal of Philosophy, 29 (1962) 169–172; ‘On Knowing, Believing, Thinking’, Ibid., 69 (1962) 586–600; and ‘Performance, Purpose, and Permission’, Philosophy of Science 30 (1963) 122–137.

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  8. Cf. the author's Truth and Denotation, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1958.

  9. Cf. however, the author's Intension and Decision, A Philosophical Study, Prentice-Hall, New York, 1963; and ‘Toward a Logic of Intension’, Synthese 15 (1963) 81–102.

  10. Cf. the author's ‘On the Frege-Church Theory of Meaning’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 23 (1963) 605–609.

  11. See his ‘On Professor Martin's Beliefs’, The Journal of Philosophy 59 (1962) 600–607.

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  13. Hao Wang, A Survey of Mathematical Logic (Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics), North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1963, p. 63. The view expressed in the quoted passage is not necessarily that of Wang.

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Martin, R.M. On maximum logical candor and extensionality. Synthese 15, 283–291 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00484858

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