Approximate truth

DOI10.1007/BF00257839MaRDI QIDQ580322zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas S. Weston

Publication date 1987

Published in Journal of Philosophical Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00257839

zbMATH Keywords

approximate truthmany-valued logicquantitative measurementstruth theorytruthlikeness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Many-valued logic (03B50)

Review text

Based on two intuitively motivated principles, an accuracy principle and an equivalence principle, the author first proves that no many-valued logic with truth functional implication and negation connectives can meet both of these principles. Then he starts to develop his own theory of approximate truth which formalizes the idea that something is approximately true iff something ``nearby is really true. Here, this ``nearby is made precise using variations of quantitative measurements of suitable objects. This idea works in an interesting way, but it is a nontrivial matter to find suitable generalizations of some very simple, commonly used inference schemata like modus ponens.

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