Logical Analogies: Interpretations, Oppositions, and Probabilism

I present two logical systems to show the “analogy of proportionality„ common to several interpretations: modality (necessity and possibility), quantification, truth-functional relations, moral attitudes (deontic logic), states of knowledge (epistemic logic), and states of belief...

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Main Author: Walter Redmond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-04-01
Series:Philosophies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/4/2/13
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Summary:I present two logical systems to show the “analogy of proportionality„ common to several interpretations: modality (necessity and possibility), quantification, truth-functional relations, moral attitudes (deontic logic), states of knowledge (epistemic logic), and states of belief (doxastic logic). To display the two underlying analogical relations, I call upon the originally Scholastic convention, recently put to use again, of using squares, hexagons, and octagons “of opposition„. A combined epistemic–deontic logic happens to be found in the traditional “probabilist„ theory of the “good conscience„, and I shall then briefly explain how this is so.
ISSN:2409-9287