Consequence Relations with Real Truth Values

In Chapter 2 we argue that internalists are committed to a kind of relativism, and that theirs is a particularly radical form of relativism. Thought experiments involving certain symmetries across space and/or time play a starring role. If the kinds of symmetries featured in them are possible, we argue, the truth values of narrow content must be relative to some very unusual parameters.

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Logicism Reconsidered

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195325928.003.0007 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Agustín Rayo

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Fourth Section ◽

Truth Values ◽

The Third

This article is divided into four sections. The first two identify different logicist theses, and show that their truth-values can be established given minimal assumptions. The third section sets forth a notion of “content-recarving” as a possible constraint on logicist theses. The fourth section—which is largely independent from the rest of the article—is a discussion of “neologicism.”

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Examining Automatic Stereotyping From a Propositional Perspective: Is Automatic Stereotyping Sensitive to Relational and Validity Information?

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ◽

10.1177/01461672211024121 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 014616722110241

Author(s):

Tal Moran ◽

Jamie Cummins ◽

Jan De Houwer

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Total N ◽

Relational Information ◽

Truth Values ◽

Alternative Perspective ◽

Automatic Stereotyping ◽

Reference Person ◽

Trait Associations

Research on automatic stereotyping is dominated by the idea that automatic stereotyping reflects the activation of (group–trait) associations. In two preregistered experiments (total N = 391), we tested predictions derived from an alternative perspective that suggests that automatic stereotyping is the result of the activation of propositional representations that, unlike associations, can encode relational information and have truth values. Experiment 1 found that automatic stereotyping is sensitive to the validity of information about pairs of traits and groups. Experiment 2 showed that automatic stereotyping is sensitive to the specific relations (e.g., whether a particular group is more or less friendly than a reference person) between pairs of traits and groups. Interestingly, both experiments found a weaker influence of validity/relational information on automatic stereotyping than on non-automatic stereotyping. We discuss the implications of these findings for research on automatic stereotyping.

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The Liar Without Relativism

Erkenntnis ◽

10.1007/s10670-020-00350-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Poppy Mankowitz

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Natural Language ◽

Recent Literature ◽

Liar Paradox ◽

Full Understanding ◽

Truth Values ◽

The Liar ◽

The Liar Paradox ◽

Semantic Relativism

AbstractSome in the recent literature have claimed that a connection exists between the Liar paradox and semantic relativism: the view that the truth values of certain occurrences of sentences depend on the contexts at which they are assessed. Sagi (Erkenntnis 82(4):913–928, 2017) argues that contextualist accounts of the Liar paradox are committed to relativism, and Rudnicki and Łukowski (Synthese 1–20, 2019) propose a new account that they classify as relativist. I argue that a full understanding of how relativism is conceived within theories of natural language shows that neither of the purported connections can be maintained. There is no reason why a solution to the Liar paradox needs to accept relativism.

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Sequent Calculi for Global Modal Consequence Relations

Studia Logica ◽

10.1007/s11225-018-9806-8 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 107 (4) ◽

pp. 613-637

Author(s):

Minghui Ma ◽

Jinsheng Chen

Keyword(s):

Consequence Relations ◽

Sequent Calculi

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Truth Values and the Value of Truth

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly ◽

10.1111/1468-0114.00147 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 83 (3) ◽

pp. 207-222 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ernest Adams

Keyword(s):

Truth Values

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Equivalence of consequence relations: an order-theoretic and categorical perspective

Journal of Symbolic Logic ◽

10.2178/jsl/1245158085 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 74 (3) ◽

pp. 780-810 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Nikolaos Galatos ◽

Constantine Tsinakis

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Deductive System ◽

Consequence Relations ◽

Deductive Systems ◽

System A ◽

Common Character

AbstractEquivalences and translations between consequence relations abound in logic. The notion of equivalence can be denned syntactically, in terms of translations of formulas, and order-theoretically, in terms of the associated lattices of theories. W. Blok and D. Pigozzi proved in [4] that the two definitions coincide in the case of an algebraizable sentential deductive system. A refined treatment of this equivalence was provided by W. Blok and B. Jónsson in [3]. Other authors have extended this result to the cases of κ-deductive systems and of consequence relations on associative, commutative, multiple conclusion sequents. Our main result subsumes all existing results in the literature and reveals their common character. The proofs are of order-theoretic and categorical nature.

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