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NO-ARGUMENTS Denials, Refutations, Negations and the Constitution of Arguments

open access: yesCharacteristica Universalis Journal, 2020
L. Horn’s book The Natural History of Negation (Chicago UP, 1989) set both a landmark on the study of negation and a challenge. The challenge is to find some general way to understand what negation is.
Shahid Rahman
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Logical constants as punctuation marks. [PDF]

open access: yesNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1989
Abstract This chapter presents a proof-theoretical approach to the question ‘What is a logical constant?’ The approach starts with the assumption that logic is the science of formal deductions, and that basic formal deductions are structural deductions, i.e.
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Philosophical Problems of Foundations of Logic

open access: yesStudia Humana, 2014
In the paper the following questions are discussed: (i) What is logical consequence? (ii) What are logical constants (operations)? (iii) What is a logical system? (iv) What is logical pluralism? (v) What is logic?
Karpenko Alexander S.
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Logicality as Necessary Instantiation

open access: yesRevista de Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea, 2018
We propose to define logicality of a simple notion as necessary instantiation. (And then logicality of a complex notion as logicality of all simple notions occurring in it.)
Roderick Batchelor
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How Does Multiverse Proposal Affect the Design Argument?

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Recent observations suggest that many fundamental physical constants and conditions in our universe are fine-tuned for life to exist. This provides an important piece of evidence to support the Design Argument and the existence of God in the philosophy ...
Man Ho Chan
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Abstract Logical Constants

open access: yesLogica Universalis, 2018
A possibility of defining logical constants within abstract logical frameworks is discussed, in relation to abstract definition of logical consequence. We propose using duals as a general method of applying the idea of invariance under replacement as a criterion for logicality.
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On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary

open access: yesSemantics and Pragmatics, 2015
This paper motivates and develops a novel semantics for several epistemic expressions, including possibility and necessity modals and indicative conditionals. The semantics I defend constitutes an alternative to standard truth conditional theories, as it
Sarah Moss
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A Semantic Approach to Illative Combinatory Logic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This work introduces the theory of illative combinatory algebras, which is closely related to systems of illative combinatory logic. We thus provide a semantic interpretation for a formal framework in which both logic and computation may be expressed in
Czajka, Lukasz
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Study of Behaviours via Visitable Paths [PDF]

open access: yesLogical Methods in Computer Science, 2018
Around 2000, J.-Y. Girard developed a logical theory, called Ludics. This theory was a step in his program of Geometry of Interaction, the aim of which being to account for the dynamics of logical proofs.
Christophe Fouqueré, Myriam Quatrini
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Veränderung der Argumentation im Schweizer Recht. Eine korpuslinguistische Analyse von Argumenten im Schweizer Rechtsdiskurs / The change in argumentation in Swiss law. A corpus linguistic analysis of arguments and argumentation in Swiss legal discourse

open access: yesAncilla Iuris, 2021
Das Argumentieren ist eine der wichtigsten juristischen kommunikativen Handlungen und zugleich ein Phänomen, das nicht ohne seine logische und sprachliche Seite gedacht werden kann.
Bojan Peric, Andreas Abegg
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