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Cause as an implication

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An appropriately unprejudiced logical investigation of causation as a type of implication relation is undertaken. The implication delineated is bounded syntactically. The developing argument then leads to a very natural process analysis, which demonstrably captures the established syntactical features. Next relevantly-based semantics for the resulting logical theory are adduced, and requisite adequacy results delivered. At the end of the tour, further improvements are pointed out, and the attractive terrain beyond present developments is glimpsed.

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  1. Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Richard Sylvan & Newton da Costa

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This paper was presented at the 1986 Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Logic in Auckland, 9–12 July, 1986.

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Sylvan, R., da Costa, N. Cause as an implication. Stud Logica 47, 413–428 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00671570

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