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On the Logical Reconstruction of Conductive Arguments

  • Yun XieEmail author
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Abstract

In a book published in 1971, Challenge and Response: Justification in Ethics, Carl Wellman introduces the notion of “conduction” to refer to a particular type of reasoning.

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Acknowledgements

The work in this paper is supported by the National Social Science Fund of China (18ZDA033).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of PhilosophyInstitute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhouChina

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