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1.1. Classification of types
In the context of the nineteenth century, ‘logic’ is a generic term to refer to formal logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of language or semantics. For this reason, within ‘logical’ psychologism, three specific forms can be distinguished: logical psychologism proper, semantic psychologism, and epistemological psychologism. This distinction makes it possible to avoid a series of typical confusions, the central point being that you can be a psychologist thinker in one case and not in the other, that is, you can be a logical psychologist thinker without being a semantic psychologist one (Mill), or be a semantic psychologist thinker without being an epistemological psychologist one (Brentano), or be an epistemological psychologist thinker without being a logical psychologist one (Fries).
Porta, Mario González. Classification of types. Psychologism, 2020, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DC121-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/psychologism/v-1/sections/classification-of-types.
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