What is Negation? - Applied Logic Series 1999 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface. Part I: Models, Relevance and Impossibility. Negation: Two Points of View; A. Avron. A Comparative Study of Various Model-Theoretic Treatments of Negation: A History of Formal Negation; J. M. Dunn.. Negation in Relevant Logics (How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Routley Star); G. Restall. Negation in the Light of Modal Logic; K. Dosen. Part II: Paraconsistency, Partiality and Logic Programming. Negation and Contradiction; D. Gabbay, A. Hunter. What not? A Defence of Dialetheic Theory of Negation; G. Priest. Partial Logics with Two Kinds of Negation as a Foundation for Knowledge-Based Reasoning; H. Herre, et al. From Here to There: Stable Negation in Logic Programming; D. Pearce. Part III: Absurdity, Falsity and Refutability. Antirealism and Falsity; M. Hand. Negation, Absurdity and Contrariety; N. Tennant. Negation as Falsity: A Reply to Tennant; H. Wansing. Part IV: Negations, Natural Language and The Liar. Models for Non-Boolean Negations in Natural Languages Based on Aspect Analysis; M. La Palme Reyes, et al. Negation, Denial and Language Change in Philosophical Logic; J. Tappenden. What is That Item Designated Negation? R. Sylvan. Index. Publisher Marketing: The notion of negation is one of the central logical notions. This volume studies the properties of negation, in combination with those of other logical operations and structural features of the deducibility relation, which serve as gateways among logical systems.

Contributor Bio:  Gabbay, Dov M Gabbay is with King's College.