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Field II 373
Belief/empiricism/rules/irrefutability/Benacerraf(1973)(1): if our system of rules were independent of any evidence for a particular physical theory, this would make our belief causally and counterfactually independent of the facts. This would, however, thwart the epistemic value of considerations based on this belief.
>Evidence, >Rules, >Knowledge, >Certainty, >Theories, cf. >Empiricism, >Causal explanation, >Causality.
Logic/Apriority/Field: it looks at first as if one could also use the argument for a priori belief in logic.
>a priori, >Logic.
FieldVs: but it is pointless to ask whether logical beliefs depend on logical facts.
>Beliefs, >Facts, >Dependence.


1. Benacerraf, P. Mathematical Truth, The Journal of Philosophy 70, 1973, S. 661–679.

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