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What are the “Purposes” of Buddhist Sūtras? From Vasubandhu’s Logic of Exegesis (Vyākhyāyukti)
As its name implies, Vasubandhu’s Vyākhyāyukti (VyY) explains the logic or methodology ( yukti ) of exegesis or sūtra interpretation ( vyākhyā ) and only...
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Inquisitive Modal Logic: A Preview
Throughout this book, we have emphasized different ways in which questions are relevant in logic. We saw that questions can be seen as names for...
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Relevance Domains and the Philosophy of Science
This paper uses Avron’s algebraic semantics for the logic RMI to model some ideas in the philosophy of science. Avron’s relevant disjunctive...
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Tracking probabilistic truths: a logic for statistical learning
We propose a new model for forming and revising beliefs about unknown probabilities. To go beyond what is known with certainty and represent the...
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A Simple Logical Matrix and Sequent Calculus for Parry’s Logic of Analytic Implication
We provide a logical matrix semantics and a Gentzen-style sequent calculus for the first-degree entailments valid in W. T. Parry’s logic of Analytic...
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General Introduction to Logic in Jainism with a List of Logicians and Their Texts
In comparison to the work and research done in Brahmanism/Hinduism and Buddhism, studies in Jaina philosophy and particularly Jaina logic are...
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First-Degree Entailment and Truthmaker Functions
We define a concept of truthmaker function , and prove the functional completeness, w.r.t. truthmaker functions in this sense, of a set of four-valued...
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Dialetheism and the Laws of Logic
Graham Priest accepts the traditional definition of validity as truth-preservation, but conceptual headaches arise when we try to dialetheically make...
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The logic of explanation in molecular biology: historical-processual and logical-procedural aspects
This work addresses biological explanations and aims to provide a philosophical account which brings together logical-procedural and...
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On the Logic of Belief and Propositional Quantification
We consider extending the modal logic KD45, commonly taken as the baseline system for belief, with propositional quantifiers that can be used to...
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Shīrzī and the Meta-TTheory of Logic?>Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī and the Meta-Theory of Logic
Introduced into Western scholarship briefly for the first time in the late nineteenth century and later more elaborately in the fourth quarter of the...
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Dyadic Deontic Logic in HOL: Faithful Embedding and Meta-Theoretical Experiments
A shallow semantical embedding of a dyadic deontic logic by Carmo and Jones in classical higher-order logic is presented. The embedding is proven...
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Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century: Ideas and Relevance
This is an introductory chapter of this edited volume. This chapter reflects on the relevance of Gandhian ideas in dealing with the contemporary...
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Buridan’s Secular Demarcation of Logic
In his Tractatus de Consequentiis, the 14th century logician John Buridan states a theorem, which reads like a refutation of Aristotelian...
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Assessing Dialectical Relevance Using Argument Distance
In this paper some lessons are learned regarding how to extend and deepen the theory of Macagno (Assessing relevance. Lingua 210–211:42–64, 2018) on...
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The relevance of food sovereignty assessments in urban sites of scarcity: lessons from mothers in Cap-Haitian, Haiti
Urban food sovereignty is a growing field of research and a site of struggle for food justice advocates, but it has gained less attention in...
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Deontic Logic and the Propositional Nature of Norms
In this paper, we examine a solution to Jørgensen’s dilemma advanced by Hilpinen in several papers. According to Hilpinen, the distinction between...
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Reasoning about Dependence, Preference and Coalitional Power
This paper presents a logic of preference and functional dependence (LPFD) and its hybrid extension (HLPFD), both of whose sound and strongly...
