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A New Solution to the Curry Paradox

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posted on 2020-07-06, 00:00 authored by Ben Middleton

In this dissertation, I accomplish four main tasks. First, I construct a canonical model for constant domain basic first-order logic (BQLCD), the logic obtained model-theoretically by dropping the requirement on the Kripke models for constant domain intuitionistic first-order logic that the accessibility relation is reflexive. Second, I prove completeness for BQLCDR, the extension of BQLCD obtained by only allowing reflexive worlds to serve as counterexamples to logical consequence. Third, I show that the naive theory of truth, the theory obtained by adding the Tarski biconditionals to the Peano axioms, is ω-consistent in BQLCDR by building a standard model. Fourth, I defend a normative analysis of logical consequence and use the normative analysis to argue that the propositional fragment of BQLCDR is the correct propositional logic.

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Date Modified

2020-09-25

CIP Code

  • 38.0101

Research Director(s)

Timothy J. Bays

Degree

  • Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Level

  • Doctoral Dissertation

Alternate Identifier

1197637006

Library Record

5872873

OCLC Number

1197637006

Program Name

  • Philosophy

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