scholarly journals A Judgmental Reconstruction of Some of Professor Woleński’s Logical and Philosophical Writings

Studia Humana ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 72-103
Author(s):  
Fabien Schang

AbstractRoman Suszko said that “Obviously, any multiplication of logical values is a mad idea and, in fact, Łukasiewicz did not actualize it.” The aim of the present paper is to qualify this ‘obvious’ statement through a number of logical and philosophical writings by Professor Jan Woleński, all focusing on the nature of truth-values and their multiple uses in philosophy. It results in a reconstruction of such an abstract object, doing justice to what Suszko held a ‘mad’ project within a generalized logic of judgments. Four main issues raised by Woleński will be considered to test the insightfulness of such generalized truth-values, namely: the principle of bivalence, the logic of scepticism, the coherence theory of truth, and nothingness.

Studia Logica ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergei P. Odintsov ◽  
Heinrich Wansing

2011 ◽  
pp. 63-91
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Shramko ◽  
Heinrich Wansing

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 921-935 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Wansing ◽  
N. Belnap

Studia Logica ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 101 (6) ◽  
pp. 1299-1318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Zaitsev ◽  
Yaroslav Shramko

Author(s):  
Jody Azzouni

Some of the many ways that sentences with non-referring terms, such as “witch,” “Frodo,” and “casts spells,” are induced to have truth values are sketched. Three models are the axiomatic model, the fiction model, and the perception model. The general point is that the methods that we use to discover the truth values of sentences with referring terms can be generalized to sentences with non-referring terms. Even though truth-value inducing, in general, does not force a truth value on every sentence in a discourse, a commitment to bivalence is preserved by the use of expressions of ignorance. It’s also argued that traditional truth-conditional semantics should not be required to describe language-world relations. How adopting the coherence theory of truth for certain classes of sentences with non-referring terms avoids traditional objections to coherence views of truth is described.


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