@article{article_681909, title={Logical Instrumentalism and Concatenation}, journal={Felsefe Arkivi}, pages={153–160}, year={2019}, author={Kissel, Teresa Kouri}, keywords={Logical pluralism,linear logic,conjunction,concatenation}, abstract={Logical pluralism is the theory that there is more than one right logic. Logical instrumentalism is the view that a logic is a correct logic if it can be used to fruitfully pursue some deductive inquiry. Logical instrumentalism is a version of logical pluralism, since more than one logic can be used fruitfully. In this paper, I will show that a logical instrumentalist must accept linear logic as a correct logic, since linear logic is useful for studying natural language syntax. I further show that this means that the logical instrumentalist must accept a wide range of connectives, in particular concatenation. I end by explaining why this is a feature rather than a bug.}, number={51}, publisher={İstanbul Üniversitesi}