Blurring: An Approach to Conflation

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 59 (2):171-188 (2018)
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I consider the phenomenon of conflation—treating distinct things as one—and develop logical tools for modeling it. These tools involve a purely consequence-theoretic treatment, independent of any proof or model theory, as well as a four-valued valuational treatment.

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10.1215/00294527-2017-0025

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David Ripley
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