Dummett, Michael Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Print publication date: 1996 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823621-4







doi:10.1093/0198236212.003.0019

Michael Dummett
Abstract: Radical conventionalism treats every necessary truth as a linguistic convention, akin to the statement ’There are seven days in a week’. Wittgenstein's endorsement of this view was a result of his belief that nothing can explain the fact of the acceptance of necessary truths. There could not be necessary truths being a consequence of human nature, which have not yet been recognized, or those which would never be recognized as such. This view stands in contrast to moderate conventionalism, which is powerless to explain the necessity of logical consequence.

Keywords: conventionalism intuitionism, mathematical proof, Necessity, Putnam, Wittgenstein,

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