On Beall’s New Interpretation of $$WK_{3}$$ W K 3

Journal of Logic, Language and Information 28 (1):1-7 (2019)
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Abstract

I argue that a recent philosophical interpretation by Jc Beall of the middle value of Weak Kleene logic as ‘being off-topic’ is untenable. My main claim is that “being off-topic” is a relation, not a property, and as such cannot serve as an interpretation of a truth-value.

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Nissim Francez
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