The present volume of the Handbook of the History of Logic brings
together two of the most important developments in 20th century
non-classical logic. These are many-valuedness and non-monotonicity.
On the one approach, in deference to vagueness, temporal or quantum
indeterminacy or reference-failure, sentences that are classically
non-bivalent are allowed as inputs and outputs to consequence
relations. Many-valued, dialetheic, fuzzy and quantum logics are,
among other things, principled attempts to regulate the flow-through
of sentences that are neither true nor false. On the second, or
non-monotonic, approach, constraints are placed on inputs (and
sometimes on outputs) of a classical consequence relation, with a view
to producing a notion of consequence that serves in a more realistic
way the requirements of real-life inference.
Many-valued logics produce an interesting problem. Non-bivalent inputs
produce classically valid consequence statements, for any choice of
outputs. A major task of many-valued logics of all stripes is to
fashion an appropriately non-classical relation of consequence.
The chief preoccupation of non-monotonic (and default) logicians is
how to constrain inputs and outputs of the consequence relation. In
what is called “left non-monotonicity, it is forbidden to add new
sentences to the inputs of true consequence-statements. The
restriction takes notice of the fact that new information will
sometimes override an antecedently (and reasonably) derived
consequence. In what is called “right non-monotonicity,
limitations are imposed on outputs of the consequence relation. Most
notably, perhaps, is the requirement that the rule of or-introduction
not be given free sway on outputs. Also prominent is the effort of
paraconsistent logicians, both preservationist and dialetheic, to
limit the outputs of inconsistent inputs, which in classical contexts
are wholly unconstrained.
In some instances, our two themes coincide. Dialetheic logics are a
case in point. Dialetheic logics allow certain selected sentences to
have, as a third truth value, the classical values of truth and
falsity together. So such logics also admit classically inconsistent
inputs. A central task is to construct a right non-monotonic
consequence relation that allows for these many-valued, and
inconsistent, inputs.
The Many Valued and Non-Monotonic Turn in Logic is an indispensable
research tool for anyone interested in the development of logic,
including researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students in
logic, history of logic, mathematics, history of mathematics, computer
science, AI, linguistics, cognitive science, argumentation theory, and
the history of ideas.
- Detailed and comprehensive chapters covering the entire range of
modal logic
- Contains the latest scholarly discoveries and interprative insights
that answers many questions in the field of logic
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ISBN
9780444516237
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
North Holland
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Antall sider
690
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