Naming and psychiatry

Abstract

The more intense the discussions about classifications, the more we need to pay careful attention to the logic by which the clinic of mental disorders is defined and developed. Its specific classification issues should be solved by the most appropriate tool for that kind of task, i.e., taking into account its nature, a many-valued logic. For that reason, I conduct in this paper a brief discussion on some logical aspects of the instrumental nominalism proposed by Peter Zachar.

Psychiatry; naming; instrumental nominalism; DSM-5