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Towards a Logic of Information Exchange

An Inquisitive Witness Semantics

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Logic, Language, and Computation (TbiLLC 2011)

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Introduction

Traditionally, the meaning of a sentence is identified with its truth conditions. This approach is driven by the age-old attention that philosophy has devoted to the study of argumentation. In terms of truth conditions one defines entailment, the crucial notion that rules the soundness of an argument: a sentence ϕ is said to entail another sentence ψ in case the truth conditions for ϕ are at least as stringent as the truth conditions for ψ.

We are very grateful to Morgan Mameni and Matthijs Westera for helpful discussions of the issues addresses in this paper and many closely related topics. Earlier versions of the paper were presented at the Prague Workshop on the Logic of Questions, October 26, 2011; and at the workshop In Search of Answers: The Guiding Role of Questions in Discourse and Epistemology, Center for Formal Epistemology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburg, November 5, 2011. The research reported here was made possible by financial support from the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO), which is gratefully acknowledged.

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Ciardelli, I., Groenendijk, J., Roelofsen, F. (2013). Towards a Logic of Information Exchange. In: Bezhanishvili, G., Löbner, S., Marra, V., Richter, F. (eds) Logic, Language, and Computation. TbiLLC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7758. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36976-6_6

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