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Classical and Nonclassical Logics:
An Introduction to the Mathematics of Propositions
Eric Schechter

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

A Preliminaries 1

Chapter 1: Introduction for teachers 3
Purpose and intended audience, 3
Topics in the book, 6
Why pluralism?, 13
Feedback, 18
Acknowledgments, 19

Chapter 2: Introduction for students 20
Who should study logic?, 20
Formalism and certication, 25
Language and levels, 34
Semantics and syntactics, 39
Historical perspective, 49
Pluralism, 57
Jarden's example (optional), 63

Chapter 3: Informal set theory 65
Sets and their members, 68
Russell's paradox, 77
Subsets, 79
Functions, 84
The Axiom of Choice (optional), 92
Operations on sets, 94
Venn diagrams, 102
Syllogisms (optional), 111
Infinite sets (postponable), 116

Chapter 4: Topologies and interiors (postponable) 126
Topologies, 127
Interiors, 133
Generated topologies and finite topologies (optional), 139

Chapter 5: English and informal classical logic 146
Language and bias, 146
Parts of speech, 150
Semantic values, 151
Disjunction (or), 152
Conjunction (and), 155
Negation (not), 156
Material implication, 161
Cotenability, fusion, and constants (postponable), 170
Methods of proof, 174
Working backwards, 177
Quantifiers, 183
Induction, 195
Induction examples (optional), 199

Chapter 6: Definition of a formal language 206
The alphabet, 206
The grammar, 210
Removing parentheses, 215
Defined symbols, 219
Prefix notation (optional), 220
Variable sharing, 221
Formula schemes, 222
Order preserving or reversing subformulas (postponable), 228

B Semantics 233

Chapter 7: Definitions for semantics 235
Interpretations, 235
Functional interpretations, 237
Tautology and truth preservation, 240
Chapter 8: Numerically valued interpretations 245
The two-valued interpretation, 245
Fuzzy interpretations, 251
Two integer-valued interpretations, 258
More about comparative logic, 262
More about Sugihara's interpretation, 263

Chapter 9: Set-valued interpretations 269
Powerset interpretations, 269
Hexagon interpretation (optional), 272
The crystal interpretation, 273
Church's diamond (optional), 277
Chapter 10: Topological semantics (postponable) 281
Topological interpretations, 281
Examples, 282
Common tautologies, 285
Nonredundancy of symbols, 286
Variable sharing, 289
Adequacy of finite topologies (optional), 290
Disjunction property (optional), 293

Chapter 11: More advanced topics in semantics 295
Common tautologies, 295
Images of interpretations, 301
Dugundji formulas, 307

C Basic syntactics 311

Chapter 12: Inference systems 313

Chapter 13: Basic implication 318
Assumptions of basic implication, 319
A few easy derivations, 320
Lemmaless expansions, 326
Detachmental corollaries, 330
Iterated implication (postponable), 332

Chapter 14: Basic logic 336
Further assumptions, 336
Basic positive logic, 339
Basic negation, 341
Substitution principles, 343

D One-formula extensions 349

Chapter 15: Contraction 351
Weak contraction, 351
Contraction, 355

Chapter 16: Expansion and positive paradox 357
Expansion and mingle, 357
Positive paradox (strong expansion), 359
Further consequences of positive paradox, 362

Chapter 17: Explosion 365

Chapter 18: Fusion 369

Chapter 19: Not-elimination 372
Not-elimination and contrapositives, 372
Interchangeability results, 373
Miscellaneous consequences of not-elimination, 375

Chapter 20: Relativity 377

E Soundness and major logics 381

Chapter 21: Soundness 383

Chapter 22: Constructive axioms: avoiding not-elimination 385
Constructive implication, 386
Herbrand-Tarski Deduction Principle, 387
Basic logic revisited, 393
Soundness, 397
Nonconstructive axioms and classical logic, 399
Glivenko's Principle, 402

Chapter 23: Relevant axioms: avoiding expansion 405
Some syntactic results, 405
Relevant deduction principle (optional), 407
Soundness, 408
Mingle: slightly irrelevant, 411
Positive paradox and classical logic, 415

Chapter 24: Fuzzy axioms: avoiding contraction 417
Axioms, 417
Meredith's chain proof, 419
Additional notations, 421
Wajsberg logic, 422
Deduction principle for Wajsberg logic, 426

Chapter 25: Classical logic 430
Axioms, 430
Soundness results, 431
Independence of axioms, 431

Chapter 26: Abelian logic 437

F Advanced results 441

Chapter 27: Harrop's principle for constructive logic 443
Meyer's valuation, 443
Harrop's principle, 448
The disjunction property, 451
Admissibility, 451
Results in other logics, 452

Chapter 28: Multiple worlds for implications 454
Multiple worlds, 454
Implication models, 458
Soundness, 460
Canonical models, 461
Completeness, 464

Chapter 29: Completeness via maximality 466
Maximal unproving sets, 466
Classical logic, 470
Wajsberg logic, 477
Constructive logic, 479
Non-finitely-axiomatizable logics, 485

References 487
Symbol list 493
Index 495

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