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Entailment and relevance1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Nuel D. Belnap
Nuel D. Belnap*
Affiliation:
Yale University
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Those who object to the identification of strict implication and entail-ment speak in such a way that for A to entail B, A must be relevant to B. This view of entailment agrees not only with that of the naive student of logic (who tends to think the phrase paradoxes of “implication” more accurate than “paradoxes” of implication), but also with that expressed in the initial chapters of many textbooks in logic under the heading “Fallacies of Relevance.”2

In regard to formal theories proposed as explications of the notion of entailment, it becomes important to have at our disposal some formal account of the demand for relevance as between antecedent and consequent of an entailment.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 1960 , pp. 144 - 146
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1960

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Footnotes

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This research was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research, Group Psychology Branch, Contract No. SAR/Nonr-609(16).

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