Relevant logic相关逻辑
2004-2
Mares, Edwin
229
The defining feature of relevant logic is that it forces the premises of an argument to be really used and thus become “relevant” in deriving its conclusion。This book introduces the reader to relevant logic and provides it with a philosophical interpretation。The logic is analyzed in the context of possible world semantics and situation semantics， which are then applied to provide an understanding of the various logical particles （especially implication and negation） and natural language conditionals。The book concludes by examining various applications of relevant logic。 This book introduces the reader to relevant logic and provides it with a philosophical interpretation。The defining feature of relevant logic is that it forces the premises of an argument to be really used （‘relevant’） in deriving its conclusion。The logic is placed in the context of possible world semantics and situation semantics， which are then applied to provide an understanding of the various logical particles （especially implication and negation） and natural language conditionals。The book ends by examining various applications of relevant logic and presenting some interesting open problems。
PrefaceAcknowledgementsⅠ. Relevant Logic and its Semantics 1. What is relevant logic and why do we need it？ 2. Possible worlds and beyond 3. Situating implication 4. Ontological interlude 5. Negation 6. Modality， entailment and quantificationⅡ. Conditionals 7. Indicative conditionals 8. CounterfactualsⅢ. Inference and its Applications 9. The structure of deduction 10. Disjunctive syllogism 11. Putting relevant logic to work 12. AfterwordAppendix A：the logic RAppendix B：Routley-Meyer semantics for RGlossaryReferencesIndex
