A reason maintenance perspective on relevant Ramsey conditionals

H. O. Ismail
2009 Logic Journal of the IGPL  
This paper presents a Ramsey account of conditionals within the framework of an implemented reason maintenance system. The reason maintenance system is built on top of a deductive reasoning engine based on relevance logic. Thus, the account of conditionals provided is not susceptible to the fallacies of relevance. In addition, it is shown that independently motivated requirements on practical relevant reason maintenance allow us to gracefully circumvent Gärdenfors's triviality result. 1 This is
more » ... not an exhaustive list. It is a list of those assumptions that are (so far) uncontroversial and/or relevant to my examination of previous work and my own proposal. 2 It should be noted, however, that the triviality result was shown to be valid for a more general class of monotonic [38] and non-monotonic [29] logics. 3 Gärdenfors [10] uses the term "proposition" instead of "sentence". Yet, he states that "belief sets are just theories in the standard logical sense" [10, p. 83].
doi:10.1093/jigpal/jzp036 fatcat:sibbxf7gvvfy5lpnltzl2klywy