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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 761-788 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | Journal of Philosophical Logic |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 26 Feb 2024 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Formal epistemology
- Hyperintensionality
- Neighborhood semantic
- Relevant logic
- Substructural logic