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79Some supervaluation-based consequence relationsJournal of Philosophical Logic 32 (3): 225-244. 2003.In this paper, we define some consequence relations based on supervaluation semantics for partial models, and we investigate their properties. For our main consequence relation, we show that natural versions of the following fail: upwards and downwards Lowenheim-Skolem, axiomatizability, and compactness. We also consider an alternate version for supervaluation semantics, and show both axiomatizability and compactness for the resulting consequence relation
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122Supervaluation fixed-point logics of truthJournal of Philosophical Logic 37 (5): 407-440. 2008.Michael Kremer defines fixed-point logics of truth based on Saul Kripke’s fixed point semantics for languages expressing their own truth concepts. Kremer axiomatizes the strong Kleene fixed-point logic of truth and the weak Kleene fixed-point logic of truth, but leaves the axiomatizability question open for the supervaluation fixed-point logic of truth and its variants. We show that the principal supervaluation fixed point logic of truth, when thought of as consequence relation, is highly comple…Read more
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8Strong Completeness of S4 for the Real LineIn Ivo Düntsch & Edwin Mares (eds.), Alasdair Urquhart on Nonclassical and Algebraic Logic and Complexity of Proofs, Springer Verlag. pp. 291-302. 2021.In the topological semantics for modal logic, S4 is well known to be complete for the rational line and for the real line: these are special cases of S4’s completeness for any dense-in-itself metric space. The construction used to prove completeness can be slightly amended to show that S4 is not only complete but strongly complete, for the rational line. But no similarly easy amendment is available for the real line. In an earlier paper, we proved a general theorem: S4 is strongly complete for a…Read more
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24Quantified intuitionistic logic over metrizable spacesReview of Symbolic Logic 12 (3): 405-425. 2019.In the topological semantics, quantified intuitionistic logic, QH, is known to be strongly complete not only for the class of all topological spaces but also for some particular topological spaces — for example, for the irrational line, ${\Bbb P}$, and for the rational line, ${\Bbb Q}$, in each case with a constant countable domain for the quantifiers. Each of ${\Bbb P}$ and ${\Bbb Q}$ is a separable zero-dimensional dense-in-itself metrizable space. The main result of the current article genera…Read more
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13Completeness of second-order propositional s4 and H in topological semanticsReview of Symbolic Logic 11 (3): 507-518. 2018.
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30Topological-Frame Products of Modal LogicsStudia Logica 106 (6): 1097-1122. 2018.The simplest bimodal combination of unimodal logics \ and \ is their fusion, \, axiomatized by the theorems of \ for \ and of \ for \, and the rules of modus ponens, necessitation for \ and for \, and substitution. Shehtman introduced the frame product \, as the logic of the products of certain Kripke frames: these logics are two-dimensional as well as bimodal. Van Benthem, Bezhanishvili, ten Cate and Sarenac transposed Shehtman’s idea to the topological semantics and introduced the topological …Read more
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14Dynamic topological logicAnnals of Pure and Applied Logic 131 (1-3): 133-158. 2005.Dynamic topological logic provides a context for studying the confluence of the topological semantics for S4, topological dynamics, and temporal logic. The topological semantics for S4 is based on topological spaces rather than Kripke frames. In this semantics, □ is interpreted as topological interior. Thus S4 can be understood as the logic of topological spaces, and □ can be understood as a topological modality. Topological dynamics studies the asymptotic properties of continuous maps on topolo…Read more
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Real Properties, Relevance Logic, and IdentityDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1994.There is an intuition, notoriously difficult to formalise, that only some predicates express real properties. J. M. Dunn formalises this intuition with relevance logic, proposing a notion of relevant predication. For each first order formula Ax, Dunn specifies another formula that is intuitively interpreted as "Ax expresses a real property". Chapter I calls such an approach an object language approach, since the claim that Ax expresses a real property is rendered as a formula in the object langu…Read more
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86Indeterminacy of fair infinite lotteriesSynthese 191 (8): 1757-1760. 2014.In ‘Fair Infinite Lotteries’ (FIL), Wenmackers and Horsten use non-standard analysis to construct a family of nicely-behaved hyperrational-valued probability measures on sets of natural numbers. Each probability measure in FIL is determined by a free ultrafilter on the natural numbers: distinct free ultrafilters determine distinct probability measures. The authors reply to a worry about a consequent ‘arbitrariness’ by remarking, “A different choice of free ultrafilter produces a different ... pr…Read more
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7Defining Relevant Implication in a Propositionally Quantified S4Journal of Symbolic Logic 62 (4): 1057-1069. 1997.R. K. Meyer once gave precise form to the question of whether relevant implication can be defined in any modal system, and his answer was `no'. In the present paper, we extend $\mathbf{S4}$, first with propositional quantifiers, to the system $\mathbf{S4\pi}+$; and then with definite propositional descriptions, to the system $\mathbf{S4\pi}+^{lp}$. We show that relevant implication can in some sense be defined in the modal system $\mathbf{S4\pi}+^{lp}$, although it cannot be defined in $\mathbf{…Read more
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43Shehtman introduced bimodal logics of the products of Kripke frames, thereby introducing frame products of unimodal logics. Van Benthem, Bezhanishvili, ten Cate and Sarenac generalize this idea to the bimodal logics of the products of topological spaces, thereby introducing topological products of unimodal logics. In particular, they show that the topological product of S4 and S4 is S4 ⊗ S4, i.e., the fusion of S4 and S4: this logic is strictly weaker than the frame product S4 × S4. In this pape…Read more
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24The Guptα-Belnαp Systems S and S* are not AxiomatisableNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 34 (4): 583-596. 1993.
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80On the complexity of propositional quantification in intuitionistic logicJournal of Symbolic Logic 62 (2): 529-544. 1997.We define a propositionally quantified intuitionistic logic Hπ + by a natural extension of Kripke's semantics for propositional intutionistic logic. We then show that Hπ+ is recursively isomorphic to full second order classical logic. Hπ+ is the intuitionistic analogue of the modal systems S5π +, S4π +, S4.2π +, K4π +, Tπ +, Kπ + and Bπ +, studied by Fine
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65Dynamic topological S5Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 160 (1): 96-116. 2009.The topological semantics for modal logic interprets a standard modal propositional language in topological spaces rather than Kripke frames: the most general logic of topological spaces becomes S4. But other modal logics can be given a topological semantics by restricting attention to subclasses of topological spaces: in particular, S5 is logic of the class of almost discrete topological spaces, and also of trivial topological spaces. Dynamic Topological Logic interprets a modal language enrich…Read more
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31The Gupta-Belnap systems ${\rm S}^\#$ and ${\rm S}^*$ are not axiomatisableNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 34 (4): 583-596. 1993.
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Axiomatizing the next-interior fragment of dynamic topological logicBulletin of Symbolic Logic 3 376-377. 1997.
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29The modal logic of continuous functions on cantor spaceArchive for Mathematical Logic 45 (8): 1021-1032. 2006.Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a propositional language with standard Boolean connectives plus two modalities: an S4-ish topological modality $\square$ and a temporal modality $\bigcirc$ , understood as ‘next’. We extend the topological semantic for S4 to a semantics for the language $\mathcal{L}$ by interpreting $\mathcal{L}$ in dynamic topological systems, i.e. ordered pairs $\langle X, f\rangle$ , where X is a topological space and f is a continuous function on X. Artemov, Davoren and Nerode have axiom…Read more
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64Quantifying over propositions in relevance logic: nonaxiomatisability of primary interpretations of ∀ p_ and ∃ _pJournal of Symbolic Logic 58 (1): 334-349. 1993.A typical approach to semantics for relevance (and other) logics: specify a class of algebraic structures and take amodelto be one of these structures, α, together with some function or relation which associates with every formulaAa subset ofα. (This is the approach of, among others, Urquhart, Routley and Meyer and Fine.) In some cases there are restrictions on the class of subsets of α with which a formula can be associated: for example, in the semantics of Routley and Meyer [1973], a formula c…Read more
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35John Woods. Paradox and paraconsistency: Conflict resolution in the abstract sciences, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 2003, xviii+ 362 pp (review)Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 10 (1): 116-118. 2004.
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76Dunn’s relevant predication, real properties and identityErkenntnis 47 (1): 37-65. 1997.We critically investigate and refine Dunn's relevant predication, his formalisation of the notion of a real property. We argue that Dunn's original dialectical moves presuppose some interpretation of relevant identity, though none is given. We then re-motivate the proposal in a broader context, considering the prospects for a classical formalisation of real properties, particularly of Geach's implicit distinction between real and ''Cambridge'' properties. After arguing against these prospects, w…Read more
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58The logical structure of linguistic commitment I: Four systems of non-relevant commitment entailment (review)Journal of Philosophical Logic 23 (4). 1994.
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49Shehtman introduced bimodal logics of the products of Kripke frames, thereby introducing frame products of unimodal logics. Van Benthem, Bezhanishvili, ten Cate and Sarenac generalize this idea to the bimodal logics of the products of topological spaces, thereby introducing topological products of unimodal logics. In particular, they show that the topological product of S4 and S4 is S4 ⊕ S4, i.e., the fusion of S4 and S4: this logic is strictly weaker than the frame product S4 × S4. Indeed, van …Read more
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13On the Complexity of Propositional Quantification in Intuitionistic LogicJournal of Symbolic Logic 62 (2): 529-544. 1997.We define a propositionally quantified intuitionistic logic $\mathbf{H}\pi +$ by a natural extension of Kripke's semantics for propositional intutionistic logic. We then show that $\mathbf{H}\pi+$ is recursively isomorphic to full second order classical logic. $\mathbf{H}\pi+$ is the intuitionistic analogue of the modal systems $\mathbf{S}5\pi +, \mathbf{S}4\pi +, \mathbf{S}4.2\pi +, \mathbf{K}4\pi +, \mathbf{T}\pi +, \mathbf{K}\pi +$ and $\mathbf{B}\pi +$, studied by Fine.
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117Comparing fixed-point and revision theories of truthJournal of Philosophical Logic 38 (4): 363-403. 2009.In response to the liar’s paradox, Kripke developed the fixed-point semantics for languages expressing their own truth concepts. Kripke’s work suggests a number of related fixed-point theories of truth for such languages. Gupta and Belnap develop their revision theory of truth in contrast to the fixed-point theories. The current paper considers three natural ways to compare the various resulting theories of truth, and establishes the resulting relationships among these theories. The point is to …Read more
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163Relevant identityJournal of Philosophical Logic 28 (2): 199-222. 1999.We begin to fill a lacuna in the relevance logic enterprise by providing a foundational analysis of identity in relevance logic. We consider rival interpretations of identity in this context, settling on the relevant indiscernibility interpretation, an interpretation related to Dunn's relevant predication project. We propose a general test for the stability of an axiomatisation of identity, relative to this interpretation, and we put various axiomatisations to this test. We fill our discussion o…Read more
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78modality , understood as ‘next’. We extend the topological semantic for S4 to a semantics for the language L by interpreting L in dynamic topological systems, i.e. ordered pairs X, f , where X is a topological space and f is a..
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62§1. Introduction. When truth-theoretic paradoxes are generated, two factors seem to be at play: the behaviour that truth intuitively has; and the facts about which singular terms refer to which sentences, and so on. For example, paradoxicality might be partially attributed to the contingent fact that the singular term, "the italicized sentence on page one", refers to the sentence, The italicized sentence on page one is not true. Factors of this second kind might be represented by a ground model:…Read more
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