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Modelling Truthmaking

“Modelling Truthmaking,” Logique et Analyse, 169–170 (2000), 211–230 (published in 2003).

Published in a special issue of Logique et Analyse, on Truthmakers, edited by Peter Forrest and Drew Khlentzos. This expands on my paper “Truthmakers, Entailment and Necessity” by showing that the theses on truthmaking given in that paper are mutually consistent. It does this by providing a model in which each thesis is true. This model is an independently motivated model of a weak quantified relevant logic with an existence predicate.

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Author: Greg Restall
Status: Published in 2003

Local file: modelling.pdf (163KB)

Subjects: existence models negation quantifiers relevant logic truth truthmakers

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I’m Greg Restall, and this is my website. I work in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. Email: greg at consequently.org; Post: School of of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia.

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Thought

Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one’s own ratiocination, and does not extend to that of other men.
— Charles S. Peirce The Fixation of Belief.