No Requirement of Relevance

John P. Burgess

doi:10.1093/0195148770.003.0024

No Requirement of Relevance

John P. Burgess

Philosophy

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There are schools of logicians who claim that an argument is not valid unless the conclusion is relevant to the premises. In particular, relevance logicians reject the classical theses that anything follows from a contradiction and that a logical truth follows from everything. This chapter critically evaluates several different motivations for relevance logic, and several systems of relevance logic, finding them all wanting.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Print)	9780195148770
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/0195148770.003.0024
State	Published - Jul 1 2005

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General Arts and Humanities

Keywords

Contradiction
Logic
Logical truth
Relevance logic
Validity

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No Requirement of Relevance

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