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Re: Modus Ponens Is Unprovable?

Subject: Re: Modus Ponens Is Unprovable?
From: Jan Burse
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:08:57 +0200
Newsgroups: sci.logic
So you have by yourself found a counter example
to the claim that modal logic = 3 valued logic.

For example in minimal logic, which can be
interpreted as a special modal logic via:

   A => B :<=> box (A -> B)

We have A, A=>B |- B. How can this happen
in 3 valued logic? What would be the box?

Confutus wrote:

In Lukasiewicz three valued logic, interestingly, Modus Ponens does not
hold.

(A & (A > B)) > B is not a tautology. it fails in one case.

This must be one of the reasons Lukasiewicz logic has been regarded as
more of a curiosity than a successful attempt to extend classical
logic. If Modus Ponens isn't valid, then how is one supposed to do any
kind of deductive reasoning with it?


translogi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

An interesting subsequent question

Is Modus ponens always a possible theorem?

or maybe more correctly:
Are there axiomatisations possible where
¬((A  & (A -> B)) -> B)
is a theorem?



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