Bad Worlds

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 4 (2):93-101 (2015)
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Abstract

The idea of relevant logic—that irrelevant inferences are invalid—is appealing. But the standard semantics for relevant logics involve baroque metaphysics: a three-place accessibility relation, a star operator, and ‘bad’ worlds. In this article we propose that these oddities express a mismatch between non-classical object theory and classical metatheory. A uniformly relevant semantics for relevant logic is a better fit

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Patrick Girard
University of Auckland
Zach Weber
University of Otago

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