Australasian Journal of Logic 15 (2):489 (2018)
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What does it mean for the laws of logic to fail? My task in this paper is to answer this question. I use the resources that Routley/Sylvan developed with his collaborators for the semantics of relevant logics to explain a world where the laws of logic fail. I claim that the non-normal worlds that Routley/Sylvan introduced are exactly such worlds. To disambiguate different kinds of impossible worlds, I call such worlds logically impossible worlds. At a logically impossible world, the laws of logic fail. In this paper, I provide a definition of logically impossible worlds. I then show that there is nothing strange about admitting such worlds.
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Keywords | Impossible Worlds Relevant Logic Richard Routley/Sylvan |
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Reprint years | 2018 |
DOI | 10.26686/ajl.v15i2.4870 |
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