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Ideas for 'Science and Method', 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom' and 'Philosophical Logic'

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4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 2. Intuitionist Logic
Is classical logic a part of intuitionist logic, or vice versa? [Burgess]
     Full Idea: From one point of view intuitionistic logic is a part of classical logic, missing one axiom, from another classical logic is a part of intuitionistic logic, missing two connectives, intuitionistic v and →
     From: John P. Burgess (Philosophical Logic [2009], 6.4)
It is still unsettled whether standard intuitionist logic is complete [Burgess]
     Full Idea: The question of the completeness of the full intuitionistic logic for its intended interpretation is not yet fully resolved.
     From: John P. Burgess (Philosophical Logic [2009], 6.9)
4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 4. Fuzzy Logic
Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson]
     Full Idea: Fuzzy logic is based on a continuum of degrees of truth, but it is committed to the idea that it is half-true that one identical twin is tall and the other twin is not, even though they are the same height.
     From: Timothy Williamson (Interview with Baggini and Stangroom [2001], p.154)
     A reaction: Maybe to be shocked by a contradiction is missing the point of fuzzy logic? Half full is the same as half empty. The logic does not say the twins are different, because it is half-true that they are both tall, and half-true that they both aren't.
4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 5. Relevant Logic
Relevance logic's → is perhaps expressible by 'if A, then B, for that reason' [Burgess]
     Full Idea: The relevantist logician's → is perhaps expressible by 'if A, then B, for that reason'.
     From: John P. Burgess (Philosophical Logic [2009], 5.8)