A Neo-Organicist Approach to Formal Science: The Case of Mathematical Logic
摘要
What I’ve been calling the explanatory inversion thesis says that all mechanical systems whatsoever, whether formal or natural, are explanatorily and ontologically dependent upon, and indeed nothing but systematic abstractions from, fundamentally organic systems, and not the other way around. In this chapter, I apply the explanatory inversion thesis to formal science, and in particular, to mathematical logic.