Abstract

The problem of mixed inferences is a bugbear for alethic pluralism and logical pluralism alike. Michael Lynch’s alethic functionalism is meant to solve the problem for alethic pluralists. But, as Lynch observes, it is tempting to combine alethic and logical pluralism, and doing so threatens to reintroduce the problem. Lynch proposes a way out of the problem for alethic cum logical pluralists. I argue that Lynch’s way out is a dead end, and the combination of logical and alethic pluralism is unattractive.