Logics, Volume 3, Issue 4

Traditional degree semantics approaches have aimed to pin down the inherent class of adjectives. This paper presents a novel dynamic perspective, where the classification of an adjective is dynamic and syntactically dependent. Using measurement theor...

We offer a framework that captures both context-dependency and vagueness of predicate meanings—illustrated by the politically relevant case of woman—as an interaction of lexical meaning and Question under Discussion (‘QUD’). W...

José Morgado introduced in 1962 a novel notion of hyperlattices, which he called reticuloides. In his master’s thesis submitted in 1971 (under the supervision of Newton da Costa), Antonio M. Sette introduced a new class of implicative hy...

If one believes that $2+2=4$, then one also believes that either $2+2=4$ or 971 is a cousin prime number. This follows from doxastic logics based on standard Kripke relational semantics, which validate disjunction introduction for belief. However, this p...

Rationality has long been considered the quintessence of humankind. However, psychological experiments revealing reliable divergences in performances on reasoning tasks from normative principles of reasoning have cast serious doubt on the venerable d...

Analogies are an important part of human cognition for learning and discovering new concepts. There are many different approaches to defining analogies and how new ones can be found or constructed. We propose a novel approach in the tradition of stru...