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Negation on the Australian Plan.
- Source :
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Journal of Philosophical Logic . Dec2019, Vol. 48 Issue 6, p1119-1144. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- We present and defend the Australian Plan semantics for negation. This is a comprehensive account, suitable for a variety of different logics. It is based on two ideas. The first is that negation is an exclusion-expressing device: we utter negations to express incompatibilities. The second is that, because incompatibility is modal, negation is a modal operator as well. It can, then, be modelled as a quantifier over points in frames, restricted by accessibility relations representing compatibilities and incompatibilities between such points. We defuse a number of objections to this Plan, raised by supporters of the American Plan for negation, in which negation is handled via a many-valued semantics. We show that the Australian Plan has substantial advantages over the American Plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *NEGATION (Logic)
*KRIPKE semantics
*MANY-valued logic
*MODAL logic
*SEMANTICS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00223611
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Philosophical Logic
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 139867050
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-019-09510-2