Generalized Entailments

• Authors: Wiśniewski Andrzej
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A semantic relation between a family of sets of formulas and a set of formulas, dubbed generalized entailment, and its subrelation, called constructive generalized entailment, are defined and examined. Entailment construed in the usual way and multiple-conclusion entailment can be viewed as special cases of generalized entailment. The concept of constructive generalized entailment, in turn, enables an explication of some often used notion of interrogative entailment, and coincides with inquisitive entailment at the propositional level. Some interconnections between constructive generalized entailment and Inferential Erotetic Logic are also analysed.

Keywords

EN

entailment; families of sets; logic of questions

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
• Journal: Logic and Logical Philosophy
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 3 Special Issue on Question Processing. Guest Editors: Mariusz Urbański, Michiel van Lambalgen, and Marcin Koszowy
• Pages: 321–356

Dates

published

2017-09-15

Contributors

author

Wiśniewski Andrzej

• Department of Logic and Cognitive Science, Institute of Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/LLP.2017.014