Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2023
Given a three-valued definition of validity, which choice of three-valued truth tables for the connectives can ensure that the resulting logic coincides exactly with classical logic? We give an answer to this question for the five monotonic consequence relations $st$,
$ss$,
$tt$,
$ss\cap tt$, and
$ts$, when the connectives are negation, conjunction, and disjunction. For
$ts$ and
$ss\cap tt$ the answer is trivial (no scheme works), and for
$ss$ and
$tt$ it is straightforward (they are the collapsible schemes, in which the middle value acts like one of the classical values). For
$st$, the schemes in question are the Boolean normal schemes that are either monotonic or collapsible.