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The Unique Logic of Life

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As the philosopher Michael Thompson shows, there is a unique, rigorous, and systematic logical grammar in the language of life forms. The uniqueness lies in part in its teleology, logically different from the teleology of conscious purpose or intelligent design. It also lies in the form of its generalizations, which are unlike those of generalizations over populations, including statistical generalizations.

What merely ‘ought to be’ in the individual we may say really ‘is’ in its form.

M. Thompson [1, p. 81]

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    Mainly due to the introduction of quantifiers; see [4].

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  1. Language of Conservation Project & Wildlife Conservation Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Claudio Campagna

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Campagna, C., Guevara, D. (2023). The Unique Logic of Life. In: Speaking of Forms of Life. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34534-0_10

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