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07.04.2024

Modern Versus Classical Structures of Opposition: A Discussion

The aim of this work is to revisit the proposal made by Dag Westerståhl a decade ago when he provided a modern reading of the traditional square of opposition and of related structures. We propose a formalization of this modern view and contrast …

verfasst von:
Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, Agnès Rico

15.03.2024

Stoic Sign-Inference and Their Lore of Fate

The Stoics are traditionally regarded as the founders of propositional logic. However, this is not entirely correct. They developed a theory of inference from signs (omens). And their theory became a continuation of the logical technique of …

verfasst von:
Andrew Schumann

26.02.2024

On the Transitivity of Logical Consequence without Assuming Monotonicity

We generalize Ripley’s results on the transitivity of consequence relation, without assuming a logic to be monotonic. Following Gabbay, we assume nonmonotonic consequence relation to be inclusive and cautious monotonic, and figure out the …

verfasst von:
Lin Chen, Xuefeng Wen

Open Access 31.01.2024

Should We Embrace Impossible Worlds Due to the Flaws of Normal Modal Logic?

Some philosophers advance the claim that the phenomena of logical omniscience and of the indiscernibility of metaphysical statements, which arise in (certain) interpretations of normal modal logic, provide strong reasons in favour of impossible …

verfasst von:
Til Eyinck

Open Access 12.12.2023

Dynamic Oppositional Symmetries for Color, Jungian and Kantian Categories

This paper investigates some classical oppositional categories, like synthetic versus analytic, posterior versus prior, imagination versus grammar, metaphor versus hermeneutics, metaphysics versus observation, innovation versus routine, and image …

verfasst von:
Julio Michael Stern

28.11.2023

The Internal Logic and Finite Colimits

We describe how finite colimits can be described using the internal lanuage, also known as the Mitchell-Benabou language, of a topos, provided the topos admits countably infinite colimits. This description is based on the set theoretic definitions …

verfasst von:
William Troiani

Open Access 15.11.2023

Morphisms Between Aristotelian Diagrams

In logical geometry, Aristotelian diagrams are studied in a precise and systematic way. Although there has recently been a good amount of progress in logical geometry, it is still unknown which underlying mathematical framework is best suited for …

verfasst von:
Alexander De Klerck, Leander Vignero, Lorenz Demey