• William T. Parry gets rid of Disjunction introduction

    From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,sci.math,comp.ai.philosophy on Thu Jun 25 20:32:17 2026
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    William T. Parry, Entailment Logics
    gets rid of Disjunction introduction
    to prevent the principle of explosion

    A simple logical matrix and sequent calculus for
    Parry’s logic of Analytic Implication

    The main and distinctive feature of PAI (and of the many
    systems of analytic implication belonging to its ilk) is
    the rejection of the classically valid principle of Addition,
    sometimes also referred to as Disjunction Introduction. In
    other words, the principle leading from a formula ϕ to a
    disjunction of the form ϕ ∨ ψ, where ψ is an arbitrary
    formula. Parry blamed on this principle the derivability
    of the paradoxes of strict implication—given that it is
    famously featured in Lewis’ derivation of an arbitrary
    formula ψ from a contradiction of the form ϕ ∧ ¬ϕ.

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    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).

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