About Logically Probable Sentences

The starting point of this paper is the empirically determined ability to reason in natural language by employing probable sentences. A sentence is understood to be logically probable if its schema, expressed as a formula in the language of classical propositional calculus, takes the logical value o...

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Huvudupphovsman: Adam Olszewski
Materialtyp: Artikel
Språk:English
Publicerad: Lodz University Press 2024-04-01
Serie:Bulletin of the Section of Logic
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Länkar:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/bulletin/article/view/20466
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Sammanfattning:The starting point of this paper is the empirically determined ability to reason in natural language by employing probable sentences. A sentence is understood to be logically probable if its schema, expressed as a formula in the language of classical propositional calculus, takes the logical value of truth for the majority of Boolean valuations, i.e., as a logically probable formula. Then, the formal system P is developed to encode the set of these logically probable formulas. Based on natural semantics, a strong completeness theorem for P is proved. Alternative notions of consequence for logically probable sentences are also considered.
ISSN:0138-0680
2449-836X