Implicational Paradoxes and the Meaning of Logical Constants

Francesco Paoli · Australasian Journal of Philosophy · 2007

I discuss paradoxes of implication in the setting of a proof-conditional theory of meaning for logical constants. I argue that a proper logic of implication should be not only relevant, but also constructive and nonmonotonic. This leads me to select as a plausible candidate LL, a fragment of linear logic that differs from R in that it rejects both contraction and distribution.

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