Conventionalism about logic
also nominalism about logic, logical conventionalism
The view that logical laws are human linguistic or social conventions — extremely useful and nearly universal, but not discovered mind-independent facts, closer to agreed-upon rules than to found truths.
Sources
- Rudolf Carnap, The Logical Syntax of Language (1934), the classic defence of logical truth as convention
- W.V.O. Quine, "Truth by Convention" (1936), the standard critical response