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- From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
- Subject: Re: Multiple Truth Values
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.094423.20326@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1993Jan9.191854.10303@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> <1993Jan10.005215.13278@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan10.151351.19163@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:44:23 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.151351.19163@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
- >
- >To recapitulate the substance of past battles, Alfred Tarski, in his
- >article "On Extensions of Incomplete Systems of Sentential Calculus",
- >appeals to what has come to be known as Lindenbaum's Lemma, proving that
- >there exists but one (absolutely) complete and consistent extension of
- >incomplete sentential calculi, which contain as theorems certain
- >formulae (namely, CpCqp, CpCCpqq, and CCqrCCpqCpr), expressing naturally
- >evident properties of material implication.
-
- It is worth mentioning that CpCCpqq (i.e. p->((p->q)->q)) is derivable
- from the other two (that is, from p->(q->p) (= K) and
- (q->r) -> ((p->q)->(p->r))) (= S) by modus ponens, mainly via the same
- derivation by which the lambda calculus combinator C (converse, Cfxy
- reduces to fyx) is derived from the combinators K and S by
- application. This yields (p->(q->r)) -> (q->(p->r)), now substitute
- q->r for p and the rest is clear. K and S as propositions constitute a
- complete axiomatization of the implicational fragment of intuitionistic
- logic. Peirce's axiom ((p->q)->p)->p supplies an example of an
- implicational proposition that is in the classical theory but not the
- intuitionistic.
- --
- Vaughan Pratt There's safety in large condition numbers.
-