Logical Determinacy versus Logical Contingency. The Case of Łukasiewicz’s Three-valued Logic
21 dic 2019
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Pubblicato online: 21 dic 2019
Pagine: 8 - 15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2019-0012
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© 2019 Andrew Schumann, published by Sciendo
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In constructing the three-valued logic, Jan Łukasiewicz was highly inspirited by the Aristotelian idea of logical contingency. Nevertheless, we can construct a four-valued logic for explicating the Stoic idea of logical determinacy. In this system, we have the following truth values: 0 (‘possibly false), 1 (‘necessarily false’), 2 (‘possibly true’), 3 (‘necessarily true’), where the designated truth value is represented by the two values: 2 and 3.