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This paper reports on a development that involves a drastic broadening of the scope of symbolic logic. The central idea concerns dynamic proofs that explicate forms of reasoning for which no positive test is available. Two other forms of the dynamics of reasoning are briefly spelled out.
Research for this paper was supported by the Fund for Scientific Research — Flanders, and indirectly by the INTAS-RFBR contract 95-365. I am indebted to audiences in Adelaide, Brisbane, and Salzburg for helpful comments.
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Batens, D. (2004). Extending the Realm of Logic: The Adaptive-Logic Programme. In: Weingartner, P. (eds) Alternative Logics. Do Sciences Need Them?. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05679-0_10
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