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Single Idea 18787
[filed under theme 4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 3. Many-Valued Logic
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Full Idea
One reason for wanting a three-valued logic is to act as a basis of a theory of presupposition.
Gist of Idea
Three-valued logic is useful for a theory of presupposition
Source
Edwin D. Mares (Negation [2014], 3.1)
Book Ref
'Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophical Logic', ed/tr. Horsten,L/Pettigrew,R [Bloomsbury 2014], p.185
A Reaction
[He cites Strawson 1950] The point is that you can get a result when the presupposition does not apply, as in talk of the 'present King of France'.
The
14 ideas
from 'Negation'
18781
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Inconsistency doesn't prevent us reasoning about some system
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18780
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Standard disjunction and negation force us to accept the principle of bivalence
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18782
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The connectives are studied either through model theory or through proof theory
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18783
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Many-valued logics lack a natural deduction system
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18784
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In classical logic the connectives can be related elegantly, as in De Morgan's laws
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18786
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Excluded middle standardly implies bivalence; attacks use non-contradiction, De M 3, or double negation
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18785
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Consistency is semantic, but non-contradiction is syntactic
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18787
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Three-valued logic is useful for a theory of presupposition
[Mares]
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18788
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For intuitionists there are not numbers and sets, but processes of counting and collecting
[Mares]
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18789
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Intuitionist logic looks best as natural deduction
[Mares]
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18790
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Intuitionism as natural deduction has no rule for negation
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18791
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In 'situation semantics' our main concepts are abstracted from situations
[Mares]
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18792
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Situation semantics for logics: not possible worlds, but information in situations
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18793
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Material implication (and classical logic) considers nothing but truth values for implications
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