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Weak Assertion

Author(s): Eugeniusz Wojciechowski
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: weak assertion; external negation; internal negation

Summary/Abstract: The paper contains references to a logical construction with two types of negation: an external (!) and internal (") one, where the substitution of the dichotomous law of excluded middle (with the #! schema) by the trichotomy (!#¬!#±!) is proposed. With reference to an object belonging to a given universe and a given set of predicates some of them apply to it, whereas others do not. There can also exist such predicates which cannot be sensibly said to apply to it – they are indeterminate to it. What is proposed here is transferring these distinctions to a sentence calculus and devising a construction with a functor of weak assertion (+) as its primitive functor. This functor together with the functor of external negation allow an additional interpretation of the sentences falling into the third category described above (indirectness) whenever there is a need to express sentences referring to indirect states between the positive state and its negative counterpart.

  • Issue Year: 60/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 87-103
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish