RELEVANCE FOR THE CLASSICAL LOGICIAN

Can The Classical Logician Avoid The Revenge Paradoxes?∗

Most work on the semantic paradoxes within classical logic has centred around what I call ‘linguistic’ accounts of the paradoxes: they attribute to sentences or utterances of sentences some property that is supposed to explain their paradoxical or non-paradoxical status. ‘No proposition’ views are paradigm examples of linguistic theories, although practically all accounts of the paradoxes subsc...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Lectures on Jacques Herbrand as a Logician

We give some lectures on the work on formal logic of Jacques Herbrand, and sketch his life and his influence on automated theorem proving. The intended audience ranges from students interested in logic over historians to logicians. Besides the well-known correction of Herbrand’s False Lemma by Gödel and Dreben, we also present the hardly known unpublished correction of Heijenoort and its conseq...

A New Approach to Classical Relevance

In this paper we present a logic that determines when implications in a classical logic context express a relevant connection between antecedent and consequent. In contrast with logics in the relevance logic literature, we leave classical negation intact in the sense that the law of non-contradiction can be used to obtain relevantly implications, as long as there is a connection between anteced...

Combining classical logic, paraconsistency and relevance