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The Cognitive Relation in a Formal Setting

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This paper proposes a formal framework for the cognitive relation understood as an ordered pair with the cognitive subject and object of cognition as its members. The cognitive subject is represented as consisting of a language, conequence relation and a stock of accepted theories, and the object as a model of those theories. This language allows a simple formulation of the realism/anti-realism controversy. In particular, Tarski’s undefinability theorem gives a philosophical argument for realism in epistemology.

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Woleński, J. The Cognitive Relation in a Formal Setting. Stud Logica 86, 479–497 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-007-9071-8

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