Material Inference

Brandom, R. B. (2016). Material Inference. Panoramas of Mind and Meaning.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2016

Link

https://sites.pitt.edu/~rbrandom/Texts/Panoramas_of_Mind_and_Meaning%20%281%29.pdf

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Domain-specific

• Material Inference
  • “Pittsburgh is west of Princeton, therefore Princeton is east of Pittsburgh” is materially good because mastering west and east includes treating them as converses; arbitrary substitution of nonlogical vocabulary would destroy the inference.

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