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The task of a formal epistemology is defined. It appears that a formal epistemology must be a generalization of “logic” in the sense of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. The generalization is required because, whereas logic presupposes a strict relation between activity and language, this relation may be broken in some domains of experimental enquiry (e.g., in microscopic physics). However, a formal epistemology should also retain a major feature of Wittgenstein’s “logic”: It must not be a discourse about scientific knowledge, but rather a way of making manifest the structures usually implicit in knowledge-gaining activity. This strategy is applied to the formalism of quantum mechanics.
See “Important Note” on p. xvii.
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Bitbol, M. (2003). Formalized Epistemology, Logic, and Grammar. In: Mugur-Schächter, M., van der Merwe, A. (eds) Quantum Mechanics, Mathematics, Cognition and Action. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 129. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48144-8_3
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