A Hyperintensional Logic of Non-prime Evidence

Pietro Vigiani*

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

We present a logic of evidence that reduces agents’ epistemic idealisations by combining classical propositional logic with substructural modal logic for formulas in the scope of epistemic modalities. To this aim, we provide a neighborhood semantics of evidence, which provides a modal extension of Fine’s semantics for relevant propositional logic. Possible worlds semantics for classical propositional logic is then obtained by defining the set of possible worlds as a special subset of information states in Fine’s semantics. Finally, we prove that evidence is a hyperintensional and non-prime notion in our logic, and provide a sound and complete axiomatisation of our evidence logic.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)761-788
Number of pages28
JournalJournal of Philosophical Logic
Volume53
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Feb 2024
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Formal epistemology
  • Hyperintensionality
  • Neighborhood semantic
  • Relevant logic
  • Substructural logic

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