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- From: arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Multiple Truth Values
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.191854.10303@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 19:18:54 GMT
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- In <1993Jan9.185347.9555@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
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- >Any culture with a weak work ethic is vulnerable to the
- >oversimplification that there are just two truth values.
-
- That's a beautiful-looking generalisation, but I don't understand
- quite what it means or how you arrive at it. Can you expand on it
- a bit?
-
- >The algebra of truth
- >values is a rich subject that is not adequately represented by the
- >passage from {0,1} to its power set, to say the least!
-
- Do you have any references to more adequate studies of the algebra(s)
- of truth values?
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