Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Symbols
- 1 Why Entailment?
- Part I Entailment in the Twentieth Century
- 2 C. I. Lewis and His School
- 3 Entailment and Possible Worlds
- 4 Entailment and Relevance
- 5 Reflexivity
- Part II Theories and Entailment
- 6 Theories and Closure
- 7 Theories of Entailment
- Part III The Logic E of Relevant Entailment
- 8 The Logic of Entailment
- 9 Negation and Disjunction
- 10 Quantification
- 11 Entailment and Reasoning
- Appendix Systems, Semantics, and Technical Results
- References
- Index
5 - Reflexivity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Symbols
- 1 Why Entailment?
- Part I Entailment in the Twentieth Century
- 2 C. I. Lewis and His School
- 3 Entailment and Possible Worlds
- 4 Entailment and Relevance
- 5 Reflexivity
- Part II Theories and Entailment
- 6 Theories and Closure
- 7 Theories of Entailment
- Part III The Logic E of Relevant Entailment
- 8 The Logic of Entailment
- 9 Negation and Disjunction
- 10 Quantification
- 11 Entailment and Reasoning
- Appendix Systems, Semantics, and Technical Results
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines Dana Scott’s project of treating a logic of entailment as one that captures its own deducibility relation in the sense that it represents (and vindicates) the way in which the theorems of the logic themselves are derived. For example, a reflexive logic that is axiomatized using the rule of modus ponens also contains the entailment ‘(A and A entails B) entails B’. It is argued in this chapter that the reflexivity constraints get in the way of the logic’s being used as a general theory of theory closure. A logic should be closed under its own principles of inference, but the logic should be able to be used with theories that are radically different from itself.
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- The Logic of Entailment and its History , pp. 96 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024