Philosophy and Non-Classical Logics
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XVIII SLALM 16-20 December, 2019 Universidad de Concepi´on Concepi´on,CHILE http://slalmxviii.udec.cl PHILOSOPHY AND NON-CLASSICAL LOGICS Invited talks Nicolas Clerbout, The dialogical study of non-classical logics: dialogical pluralism in hindsight ......................................................... 3 Eduardo Alejandro Barrio, Substructural logics and matainferences. 4 Contributed talks Luis Felipe Bartolo Alegre, On falsifying empirical contradictions . 6 Leonardo Cano, A natural semantics for the pull-back of fiber bundles of structures . 7 J.-Mart´ınCastro-Manzano, Numerical term logic tableaux . 8 J.-Mart´ınCastro-Manzano, Distribution trees . 9 Pen´elope Cordero, Subdirectly irreducible complex c-PBL-algebras . 10 Lilian Cruz, Categorical equivalence between PMVf -product algebras and semi- low fu-rings................................................................. 11 Am´ılcarArroyo Medina and Sandra Dolores Cuenca, Dos cr´ıticas al monismo sobre la noci´onde consecuencia . 12 Sebastian E. Ferrando, Preferencias imprecisas como modelos neighborhood 13 Jos´eDavid Garc´ıa, Test modality as a connexive operator . 14 Noem´ıLubomirsky, The lattice of subvarieties of the variety of BL-algebras generated by [0; 1]MV ⊕ [0; 1]G ................................................ 16 Miguel Marcos, The twist structure of Nelson-type algebras . 17 Alba Massolo, Pluralism and normativity in logic . 18 Rodrigo Mena Gonz´alez, Sobre la traducibilidad de bases deductivas . 19 Eric Pezoa, Monismo o pluralismo en el anti excepcionalismo sobre la l´ogica . 20 Yuri Poveda, Mvw-rigs and product mv-algebras. 21 Hern´anSan Mart´ın, On the free frontal implicative semilattice extension of a frontal Hilbert algebra. 22 Sandra Visokolskis, Analogical proportion-based inferences within non-classical logic: historical variants of Aristotelian argumentative strategies . 23 Anya Yermakova, Non-classical logics of the late Russian Empire . 24 INVITED TALKS 2 I NICOLAS CLERBOUT, The dialogical study of non-classical logics: dialogical plural- ism in hindsight. Instituto de Filosof´ıa,Universidad de Valpara´ıso,Serrano 546 - Valpara´ıso,Chile. E-mail: [email protected]. The dialogical approach to logic is born at the end of the fifties from the work of P. Lorenzen. Inspired by Wittgenstein's meaning as use approach and mathematical game theory, the framework provides an alternative to the more widespread model- theoretical and proof-theoretical approaches. Initially, it was introduced in the context of constructive mathematics and logic. During the 90s and the 2000s, the framework has been developed and used for the study, comparison and combination of various logical systems [2]. These developments led to the formulation of what has been called dialogical pluralism [3, 1]. But in recent years this philosophical stance has received less attention, as the focus has shifted on other topics related to constructive approaches. The main topic of the talk is to present and discuss a reformulation, as well as a new start, for dialogical pluralism. The discussion will start with a presentation of the general features of the dialogical framework and how they are involved in this particular kind of pluralism. In particular we will be interested in how these features are involved in the study of non-classical logics. Some elements on the scope and limits of dialogical pluralism will also be discussed. [1] Laurent Keiff. Le Pluralisme Dialogique, PhD. Thesis, University of Lille (France), 2007. [2] Laurent Keiff, Dialogical logic, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, on- line, 2009 (accessed June 2019). [3] Shahid Rahman and Laurent Keiff, On how to be a dialogician, Logic, Thought and Action (Daniel Vanderveken, editor), Springer, Dordrecht, 2005, pp. 359{408. 3 I EDUARDO ALEJANDRO BARRIO, Substructural logics and matainferences. IIF-SADAF-CONICET, University of Buenos Aires. E-mail: [email protected]. Since the Tarskian paradigm became the standard to characterize what a logical system is, there have been different attempts to generalize it appropriately. Multiple- conclusions, non-contractive, non-monotonic, non-reflexive and even non-transitive ac- counts of what a consequence relation might be, are only some of the directions in which these investigations have been headed. In this talk I discuss the extent to which the very existence of substructural logics puts the Tarskian conception of logical sys- tems in jeopardy. In order to do this, I highlight the importance of the presence of different levels of entailment in a given logic, looking not only at inferences between collections of formulae but also at inferences between collections of inferences|and more. I call to this type of entailment a meta-inference. I discuss appropriate refine- ments or modifications of the usual Tarskian identity criterion for logical systems, and propose an alternative of our own. Further, I propose to focus on a meta-inferential version of Explosion, i.e. which is concerned with inferences. In doing so, I will offer a new characterization of paraconsistency by means of which a logic is paraconsistent if it invalidates either the inferential or the meta-inferential notion of Explosion. After that, I consider a number of objections to our account and evaluate a substantially different approach to the same problem. [1] Barrio, E., Rosenblatt, Tajer, D., The Logics of Strict-Tolerant Logic, Journal of Philosophical Logic (2015) DOI 10.1007/s10992-014-9342-6. [2] Barrio, E., Pailos, F. Szmuc, D., A Hierarchy of Classical and Paraconsistent Logics, Journal of Philosophical Logic (2019) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-019- 09513-z 4 CONTRIBUTED TALKS 5 I LUIS FELIPE BARTOLO ALEGRE, On falsifying empirical contradictions. Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Address: Ciudad Universtaria, Cercado de Lima, Lima, Per´u. CP: 15081. E-mail: [email protected]. The possibility of testing contradictory statements about the factual world has been suggested but barely discussed in the relevant literature. In what seems to be the only paper on the subject, Priest proposes that \if a theory entails β ^ :β, where β is some observation statement, then if such a contradiction is not observed, the theory cannot be correct" ([1]: p. 125). This presupposes that it is possible to falsify contradictory observation statements. The method proposed, though, is not adequate. In normal scientific practice, theories and other statements are falsified because of negative empirical evidence and not just for lack of positive empirical evidence, as implied by Priest's proposal. In this lecture I argue that although it may be possible to empirically verify contradictory observation sentences, it is logically impossible to empirically falsify them in any relevant way. If my argument is correct, the extension of the dialetheist programme into empirical science is, thus, non advisable since we want to avoid statements that are logically impossible to falsify. [1] Priest, Graham, Inconsistency and the Empirical Sciences, Inconsistency in Science (Meheus, Joke, editor), Springer, Dordrecht, 2002, pp. 119{28. 6 I PEDRO ZAMBRANO AND LEONARDO CANO, A natural semantics for the pull- back of fiber bundles of structures. Departamento de Matem´aticas,Universidad Nacional de Colombia, AK30 45-03 111321 Bogota, Colombia. E-mail: [email protected]. E-mail: [email protected]. Sheaves of structures on topological spaces correspond to the semantics of Intuition- ism (see [Cai95]), located in between of Kripke semantics and topoi logic. This is a paradigm of truth continuity (continuidad veritativa, according to [Cai95]), which means that if a statement is true in a point therefore it continues being true in a neighborhood of that point. There are other similar approaches of sheaves of structures in several logics (e.g., Continuous Logic -[OV16]-), where the key idea is still preserving the truth of statements in a neighborhood of a point. This idea was generalized to sheaves based on some special kind of lattices extending the lattice of open-sets of a topology (e.g., locales and quantales, [Joh02, BvdB86]), which still keeps some geometry behind them and correspond to variants of intuitionism and links topoi and quantum logic. We intend to extend this idea to fiber bundles. The pullback does not behave well with respect to forcing. Given that the pullback of a fiber bundle is a natural geomet- ric operation, a natural question is to find a semantics which is compatible with it. To do this, we use connections on fiber bundles to define the notion of parallel semantics. We find out that parallel semantics is a compatible semantics with the pullback of fiber bundles. In this semantics, the continuity of the truth is defined via curves that play the role of observers moving in space (spacetime). Parallel semantics allows to distinguish three new aspects associated to truth conti- nuity: space-time stability (truth continuity a` la Caicedo), preservation of truth of statements through the observer movement in space-time (during a time interval) and stability of the experimental measure made by the observer. [1] F. Borceux and G. van-den Bossche. Quantales and their sheaves. Order, 84C:288-301, 2017. [2] X. Caicedo. Lo?gica de los haces de estructuras. Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc, 19 (74):569586, 1995. [3] L. A. Cano and P. Zambrano. A natural semantics for the pullback of fiber bundles of structures. preprint. arXiv:1811.11271. Submitted. [4] P. T. Johnstone. Sketches of an elephant: