Truth or Consequences

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. On Two Deflationary Truth Theories

   • Dorothy Grover

   Pages 1-17

3. Some Reflections on the Prosentential Theory of Truth

   • W. Kent Wilson

   Pages 19-32

4. Paradox and Reference

   • Michael Kremer

   Pages 33-47

5. Two Theorems Concerning Stability

   • Anil Gupta

   Pages 49-60

6. The Complexity of Decision Procedures in Relevance Logic

   • Alasdair Urquhart

   Pages 61-76

7. Relevant Predication 3: Essential Properties

   • J. Michael Dunn

   Pages 77-95

8. The Dog: Relevance and Rationality

   • Jay L. Garfield

   Pages 97-109

9. Consistency and Logical Consequence

   • Jon Barwise

   Pages 111-122

10. On What Cannot Be

    • Daniel Cohen

    Pages 123-132

11. Durations: Temporal Intervals with Gaps and Undetermined Edges

    • Ruth Manor

    Pages 133-154

12. Categorical Semantics

    • James W. Garson

    Pages 155-175

13. The Myth of the Intuitionistic “OR”

    • A. P. Hazen

    Pages 177-195

14. What Mathematical Truth Need Not Be

    • Virginia Klenk

    Pages 197-208

15. A Tour of the Multivariate Lambda Calculus

    • Garrel Pottinger

    Pages 209-229

16. Choice Trees

    • Storrs McCall

    Pages 231-244

17. The Extensional but Hyper-Intensional Calculus C _α with Orderless Constants and Variables

    • Aldo Bressan

    Pages 245-265

18. A Skeptical Theory of Mixed Inheritance

    • John F. Horty

    Pages 267-281

19. The Logic of Mitchill V. Lath

    • Robert L. Birmingham

    Pages 283-305

20. What are Absolute Probabilities a Function of?

    • Hugues Leblanc, Peter Roeper

    Pages 307-325

The essays in this collection are written by students, colleagues, and friends of Nuel Belnap to honor him on his sixtieth birthday. Our original plan was to include pieces from fonner students only, but we have deviated from this ever so slightly for a variety of personal and practical reasons. Belnap's research accomplishments are numerous and well known: He has founded (together with Alan Ross Anderson) a whole branch of logic known as "relevance logic." He has made contributions of fundamental importance to the logic of questions. His work in modal logic, fonnal pragmatics, and the theory of truth has been highly influential. And the list goes on. Belnap's accomplishments as a teacher are also distinguished and well known but, by virtue of the essential privacy of the teaching relationship, not so well understood. We would like to reflect a little on what makes him such an outstanding teacher.

• flat
• landscape
• logic
• modal logic
• pragmatics
• probability
• rationality
• reason
• semantic
• semantics
• subject
• truth

• Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

  J. Michael Dunn, Anil Gupta

• Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

  J. Michael Dunn

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